[78-L] So Tired

[Taylor Bowie]

Royal,  the record is remarkable.  I was first tipped to it years ago by a 
fellow member of our 78 group who said before he played it for me: "You 
won't believe this when you hear it."  He was right.  I was delighted to 
find my own copy a few years later.  Not that it's so bad that it's 
good...it's just...so bad!  BTW said friend's wife is generally a big fan of 
vintage music but she will not allow him to play that record,  even for 
laughs,  while she is in the house!

As far as who or what was tired...I would say it was a combination of band, 
studio,  engineer,  song, etc.  Oh...and as is so typical of the prestigious 
Broadway pressings,  it sounds like you're playing a round hunk of cement.

Let me say again that the song is part of the problem...as I recall it's 
co-composed by Bert Lown and maybe some band members.  The Lown record is 
dreary,  as is the version I have on Romeo by Vic Irwin...but none of the 
other versions can match the Sig Heller for absolute multi-faceted 
bottom-of-the-barrel.

Taylor B


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Royal Pemberton" <ampex354 at gmail.com>
To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Sent: Sunday, March 22, 2009 2:17 PM
Subject: Re: [78-L] unstable records, was CV records


> Re 'Tired':  I've never seen or heard that record, but I just looked
> it up on Tyrone's site.  I saw that the matrix number is in the L
> series that was used by Paramount toward its end, and very near the
> highest number reached in the series.  Does this record sound like, as
> it were, the engineer was tired, or was the recording equipment on its
> last leg?
>
> On 3/22/09, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca> wrote:
>> This could happen at major labels as well. Duke Ellington's 1933 English
>> Deccas
>> have problems (pitch, flutter as I recall) and some of his Brunswicks 
>> from
>> around that time weren't released till the late 40s, possibly because of
>> speed
>> problems.
>>
>> And I still can't figure what's going on with Spike Jones' "Yes We Have 
>> No
>> Bananas". The Canadian issue changes pitch all over the place, and 
>> according
>> to
>> one source this is supposed to be the case with the commercial issue, but
>> the
>> DJ version is stable.
>>
>> dl
>>
>> Taylor Bowie wrote:
>>> I have several sides on late Broadway (1931-32) where there was clearly
>>> some
>>> problem with keeping the recording turntable at a constant speed.  The 
>>> Sig
>>>
>>> Heller Orch. of "Tired" is a terrifying reminder of how an ordinary 
>>> record
>>>
>>> can become memorably bad due to screw-ups by the engineer.
>>>
>>> Taylor B
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "Sammy Jones" <sjones69 at bellsouth.net>
>>> To: <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
>>> Sent: Sunday, March 22, 2009 12:35 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [78-L] unstable records, was CV records
>>>
>>>
>>>> Gallagher and Shean's recording of "Positively, Mr.
>>>> Gallagher?/Absolutely,
>>>> Mr. Shean!" on Victor 18941 appears to change keys at the side change. 
>>>> I
>>>> have no idea which is correct!
>>>>
>>>> Sammy
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