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

[David Lennick]

And don't forget the famous story about the dog ending up on an Ormandy LP 
while the lacquers were being transferred to LP and run through the echo 
chamber. I can never remember whether it's Dvorak's New World or Scheherazade. 
And Morton Gould's Columbia Christmas LP sounds as if the echo chamber opened 
into the subway.

dl

Michael Biel wrote:
> In the 50s and 60s Columbia used the back stairwell in their 6 story NYC 
> studio building (53rd St?).  They had  RECORDING  lights at every 
> entrance.  While we were walking down those stairs, Miles Kreuger told 
> me about the time he ruined a recording by running down the stairs 
> shouting YAHOO all the way.  He had just figured out that since Candide 
> opened the week after Bells Are Ringing, it also might have been 
> recorded in stereo.  The engineer who worked both was still there and 
> told him that he thinks it was and the master tapes were probably still 
> in the basement vault.  Not wanting to wait for the elevator, Miles ran 
> down despite the light being lit.  There was a happy ending because the 
> stereo master tapes were there and he produced the stereo issue of 
> Candide.  He mentioned that he used several alternate takes, so the 
> original mono issue is different from the reissue.
> 
> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
> 
> David Lennick wrote:
>> And in fact some sound really nice, like the Brunswick Salon Orchestra's 
>> "Parade of the Wooden Soldiers". It figures that Scott would have come up with 
>> the technique.
>>
>> dl
>>
>> davdieh at aol.com wrote:
>>   
>>>  
>>> 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
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>     
>>   
>>> 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
>>>>
>>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>>> 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
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>