[78-L] Odeon acoustic beauty

[Steven C. Barr]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bob Rice" <bobrice at snet.net>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <Dnjchi at aol.com>
>> In a message dated 3/25/2009 6:49:09 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
>> dlennick at sympatico.ca writes:
>> Dnjchi at aol.com wrote:
>>> The Lindstrohm acoustic masters released  by OKeh in America in the
>> mid-'20s
>>> were outstanding in sound  quality.  This past weekend I picked up a 12"
>> Odeon
>>> (red  lable) 3037 of Marek Weber and his Orch doing "Dreaming"/"Souvenir
>>> d
>>
>>> Marie".  Absolutely lovely!  Clean grooves, almost  electrical in 
>>> sound.
>> Does
>>> anyone know the recording date(s) for  this record?
>>> One side ("Dreaming") is by Archibald Joyce, a British  composer.  Does
>>> anyone know of other Joyce compositions on  78s?  Or CDs, for that
>>> matter?
>> I love
>>> his  music.
>>
>    Me too! Marek Weber does a great repatoire of 20-30's danz(dance)Music.
> A facinating viriety of OOmpa to Waltz stuff, and considering the 
> backround
> ,of Germany's decent into hell, the Hitler Years, Music to build V-2's and
> Jet planes,U-boats, and early attempts at nuclear weapons,by. Guyz on here
> guided me to a CD of Marek Weber's stuff, He MUST have done more than on 
> the
> German CD? It would be interesting to see an English translation of the
> songs. Radio Dismuke plays alot of his stuff, too.I, too, have some of his
> stuff on 78's
>
Okeh had a VERY good-quality acoustic recording in its latter years...and
THIS is what was used to cut the Odeon(US) ethnic recordings then...!

...stevenc