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

[Royal Pemberton]

Here's three I can think of off the top of my head:

I can hear Henry Burr clear his throat during the orchestra
introduction on his Little Wonder recording of 'Where the river
Shannon flows'.

Does anyone here have a copy of Columbia A5105?  On the 'Solo and
humming chorus' side (mx 30153-2), at one point, when the orchestra is
playing very quietly behind the singing of Rene Vivienne, one of the
chorus members may be heard to cough.

After the last chord dies away on Frank Luther's 'The big rock candy
mountain'  (Banner 6251 and others, matrix 8369, recorded 28 November
1928) there's a weird boomy 'clunk' like the acoustic guitar banged
into a music stand, just before the leadout spiral.

On 4/17/09, JACK DANEY <jackson1932 at cfl.rr.com> wrote:
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>> Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 09:48:22 -0700
>> From: "Taylor Bowie" <bowiebks at isomedia.com>
>> Subject: [78-L] Hal Kemp record question
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>> OK,  I'm ready to tear down the curtain of silence here.
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>> One of my fave of the later Hal Kemp Orch records is Victor 26300 of
>> "Let's
>> Do It" with a great vocal by The Smoothies.
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>> I have listened to this record for years,  and at two points in it I swear
>> I
>> hear somebody...coughing.  One is during the little intro passage,  and
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>> second is right as the reeds start their first passage in the chorus.
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>> If anyone has this record,  please play it and let me know if I'm hearing
>> things or just "hearing things."
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>> Thanks from
>>
>> Taylor
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> 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.
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> Better than that is Harry James' 1941 recording of "The Devil Sat Down &
> Cried." On the instrumental interlude between vocals one can (almost)
> plainly hear someone way off mike shout, "Aw, go F...yourself!"  I'd never
> noticed it until it was brought to my attention by the local small record
> shop proprietor in the mid forties. Once having heard it it was impossible
> to miss. I asked Helen Forrest (who is on the record) about it when I worked
> with her in 1956. She was unaware but said that with that band in those
> days, anything could happen. It's on all the reissues I've heard, btw.  Next
> case....
> JD
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