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

[Royal Pemberton]

I just remembered another one....on the 1926 Columbia record of
'Death's black train is coming' by Reverend J.M. Gates (14145-D, mx
W.142132-2) there's an 'oo-gah' horn honking in the background....the
last honk just as the last note dies away.

On 4/17/09, Royal Pemberton <ampex354 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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:
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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
>>> the
>>> second is right as the reeds start their first passage in the chorus.
>>>
>>> If anyone has this record,  please play it and let me know if I'm
>>> hearing
>>> things or just "hearing things."
>>>
>>> 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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