[78-L] Playing tmes [was Four Lads Stage Show]

[David Lennick]

Timings began to appear on most pop records in the fifties. They were often way 
off..in some cases, deliberately fudged so as not to scare off radio 
programmers (yeah, that Phil Spector ain't just guilty of knocking off broads).

dl

Royal Pemberton wrote:
> Anyone who wanted to hear them the way they were recorded (provided
> the label copy was honest)!  :-)
> 
> On 7/6/09, Julian Vein <julianvein at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
>> Royal Pemberton wrote:
>>> Maybe to get the duration determined, but usually run-throughs were
>>> done to determine what might be problematic in terms of balances or
>>> 'blasting' (helping a singer learn where to lean into or away from the
>>> horn) AFAIK.
>>>
>>> I think it would have been helpful if they'd kept notes somewhere of
>>> what key each song was recorded in.  Posting that on the labels would
>>> have been great!  (Isn't there a Melba record where 'Key F' is on the
>>> label?)
>> --------------
>> Not being a musician, having the key indicated would mean nothing to me.
>> On the other hand, who would want to keep adjusting the turntable speed
>> until it matched that given on the label?!
>>
>>       Julian Vein
>>