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

[David Weiner]

I have an Okeh by the Goofus Five - before the music starts, you can hear
deep rhythmic thumps as (I presume) the recording device motor gets up to
speed. 

Also, there is the famous Wanda Landowska Scarlatti harpsichord record made
in Paris, just before it fell to the Nazis in 1940 where you can hear the
sound of explosions outside the studio.  And the late 1944 German stereo
Magnetophone tape of Beethoven's 5th Concerto by Walter Gieseking where you
can plainly hear anti-aircraft guns in the distance - in stereo, left of
center! 

Dave W.

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[mailto:78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com] On Behalf Of Bud Black
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And somewhere I have a Victor recording of Campbell and Burr singing "My
Little Girl," and in the opening grooves, just before the "thump" sound, one
of these two speaks about four words.  I've been trying to figure out what
is said for years.  Also, I once gave a Victor recording to Milton Fargo of
Ada Jones laughing just before the song begins, but I can't recall the title


Bud
 
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From: David Lennick
Date: 04/17/09 16:00:14
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Subject: Re: [78-L] BACKGROUND ARTIFACTS (WAS Hal Kemp record question)
 
And then there's the Bruno Walter/Paris Conservatory Orchestra recording of
the
Berlioz "Symphonie Fantastique" made in the late 30s, where all through the
slow movement you can hear somebody banging away on the roof (or trying to
dig
his way out of the tower).
 
And the famous dog barking during an Ormandy Columbia LP..this happened when
they transferred the lacquers to 33RPM and ran it through their "echo
chamber"
which happened to include an air vent open to New York street sounds.
 
Over the years we've documented buzzer sounds, a "how was that" at the end
of
one of Robert Wildhack's monologues, foghorns in the East River audible on a
Caruso record and the like....
 
I still have to dig out that Harry James record.
 
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.
>
> 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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