[78-L] How well did they do it

[joe@salerno.com]

Yep, the Ranger's music wasn't note perfect, but there is an elan to it 
that you don't hear anywhere else. And you certainly don't hear the 
music composed for the film series or the updated versions anywhere 
else, or I haven't. Magical music! Turmoil! I love Turmoil! And when you 
hear "Night Riders" you can see the open plain, a cloudless sky, the 
moon shining its light, and a certain silver white horse hurrying along 
to its destination.

joe salerno

Michael Biel wrote:
> Royal Pemberton wrote:
>> . . . for as long as I can remember having any awareness of records and
>> the different speeds (back to before I was 3 years old) I always
>> preferred the 78s.  If I had a choice, although I expect I'd wish for
>> the faster speed disc to have the break-resistant plastic the slower
>> ones were pressed on.
>>
>>   
> 
> Of course a lot of childrens 78s were pressed on that break resistant 
> plastic starting in the post-war years.
> 
> Doug Pomeroy wrote:
> 
>  > > Personally, I have a problem with all acoustic recordings, even tho 
> I can appreciate Oliver's Snake Rag on a purely musical level.
> 
> Acoustical recordings have a charm to them, which is one of the reasons 
> some people like Eldridge R. Johnson resisted the (more natural) sound 
> of electrical recording because "it didn't sound like a phonograph"!  
> When I was a kid I loved the sound of the acoustical Columbia recording 
> of the William Tell Overture that was issued on two 12-inch blue label 
> discs.  When I was in third grade they were broken during a school show 
> and tell, and I was heartbroken when the record store told me they would 
> be impossible to replace but listen to a more modern recording.  Never 
> liked then the same way.  Looked for many years before I found another 
> set. and it is interesting that I don't care much for the acoustical 
> Victor of this which was issued on two 10-inchers.  I and many Old Time 
> Radio people have likewise been entranced by the odd tambre of the 
> Finale recording used in The Lone Ranger, a recording made in Mexico 
> City in 1938 by RCA especially for the program.  For decades collectors 
> searched through every commercial recording of it to find this exact 
> recording before the truth was found out about this special recording. 
> 
> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com 
> 
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