[78-L] Mr Goon-Bones and electronic echo chamber

[davdieh at aol.com]

Palitz inherited the gizmo from Master tinkerer Raymond Scott who employed it on his sextet sides. It is clearly in use on Ellington's "I let a song go out of my Heart." Once Master's operations were folded into Brunswick's the technique was employed with a vengence. All of those cavernous sounding 1939 Brunswicks and Columbias were still being recorded in the old, cramped ARC studios.
David Diehl


 

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Another story credits Morty Palitz with using the same procedure at Brunswick 
in 1939. Lots of small labels started using an echo chamber in 1945 and you can 
hear the results on Musicraft, Signature (the Whiteman "Rhapsody in Blue"), 
VitaCoustic (the Harmonicats) et al.

dl

simmonssomer wrote:
> I've read that the earliest Decca reverbs were made with a second mike in 
> the adjoining men's room.
> Needless to say, flushing was taboo.
> 
> Al Simmons
> 
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> From: "Steve Wixson" <wixson at chattanooga.net>
> To: <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 8:54 AM
> Subject: [78-L] Mr Goon-Bones and electronic echo chamber
> 
> 
>> Hello List,
>>     Ted Goon's first record was The Sheik of Araby which sold 400,000
>> copies when 200,000 was a hit.  The B-side, Ain't She Sweet, had an
>> exaggerated off-beat and was said to be one of the first American
>> produced records to use the new electronic echo chamber that London
>> Records had used with some symphony recordings.
>>
>>     The Billboard critics were noted as saying Ain't was a virtual
>> monstrosity, and would kill the record.  It didn't.  One day several
>> month's after the initial release, a St. Louis disc jockey played the
>> B-side for a dancing audience and it took off selling a million and a
>> quarter copies.
>>
>>     Does anyone have info on the early use of the echo chamber to maybe
>> validate the above.  Thanks, Steve
>>
>> Hello everyone,
>>     I'm brand new to the list and not sure how to proceed.  I am
>> researching the recordings of Ted 'Mr. Goon-Bones' Goon who recorded in
>> the late 40s and early 50s.  I play rhythm bones so am personally
>> interested.
>>
>>     I prepared a list from the research that I've done to date.  I don't
>> know if it's appropriate to post something that's a couple pages of double
>> spaced lines.  Help me out.  Steve
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------via webmail----
>> Steve Wixson
>> wixson at chattanooga.net
>>
>>
>>
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