[78-L] BACKGROUND ARTIFACTS (WAS Hal Kemp record question)

[David Lennick]

Say, isn't Anvil Chorus one where there are two issued takes of Side 2? Maybe 
that's why.

dl

> JACK DANEY wrote:
>>
>> As Dave Lennick pointed out it's not likely you're  "hearing things". Around
>> 1944 I had Miller's Bluebird 78 of the "Anvil Chorus." On side two behind
>> the softer passages I could  hear an animated conversation going on. It was
>> plainly audible but too much in the background to make out any details or
>> discern whether there were one or two persons. The reissues I have are minus
>> the artifact.  I've come to suspect that it was probably a one-sided
>> dialogue of someone in the vicinity of the recording lathe talking on the
>> phone and as the result of some leakage somewhere it wound up on the disc.
>> In a recording studio, almost anything was possible and Murphy's law was
>> always at the ready.