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

[Jeff Sultanof]

I have a Harry Lauder 12" of the song "I Love to Be a Sailor" where he has
coughing fits throughout the side!

Jeff Sultanof

On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 5:00 PM, Royal Pemberton <ampex354 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 4/17/09, Michael Shoshani <mshoshani at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2009-04-17 at 21:45 +0100, Royal Pemberton wrote:
> >
> >> 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.
> >
> > I have an American-made Pathe Actuelle record of 'Abide With Me', sung a
> > cappella by a male quartet whose name escapes me. After the song is
> > finished there is a rhythmic THUMP-THUMP-THUMP-THUMP, like the plucking
> > of a bass string or something, about two beats per second. There are
> > about a dozen plucks before the leadout spiral takes over.
> >
> > I have yet to figure out whether someone was monkeying around near the
> > recording horn, or whether this was some sort of cue to the listener to
> > get up off the easy chair and take the damn record off the turntable.
>
> Sounds like the typical thumps from their infamous pantographic
> cylinder-to-disc mastering.  I hear them a little on the vertical
> discs, but on the laterals it's much worse.
>
> Which reminds me of 'Second regiment Connecticut guard march' as
> played by the American Regimental Band on Pathe 20253.  The music dies
> away, there's several seconds of quiet in the studio, then you hear a
> few seconds of chatter begin among the musicians just before the
> recorded groove hits the stop groove.   (I only have the vertical
> disc; I wonder if this may be heard on the lateral version too?)
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