[78-L] Robert Johnson "Love in Vain"

[David Lennick]

Good grief..the Brahms cylinder is more intelligible than that thing. If 
someone is going to put something that ghastly sounding on a disc, at least 
have the courtesy to explain why and how it got there.

I'd say that's from a test groove, since I've encountered a number of them 
myself..usually the matrix number or song title is scratched through it and 
whatever voices are picked up are at whatever level they're at in the studio, 
so this one was boosted a great deal.

I met Larry Cohn a few years ago..he and Johnny Parth were visiting Roger 
Misiewicz, and Roger lives ten minutes from me. (And I owe him a bunch of 
transfers which keep getting put back because of paying projects. Be patient, 
Roger.)

dl

Malcolm Rockwell wrote:
> You might ask Larry Cohn, over in the post-war-blues or pre-war-blues 
> newsgroups.
> email addresses are
> <post-war-blues at yahoogroups.com>
> and
> <pre-war-blues at yahoogroups.com>
> Larry was the producer of the set.
> Mal
> 
> *******
> 
> Sammy Jones wrote:
>> Does anybody know the story behind the spoken words that are at the beginning of Robert Johnson's recording of "Love in Vain" (take 1).  He says something like, "I wanna go with our next one, myself."
>>
>> It's present on the Columbia CD release, and the sound is much scratchier than the actual song.  Is this from a test groove?  And if so, is it from the area on the stamper that would not be pressed on shellac copies?
>>
>> Thanks!  This one has been bothering me for years...
>>
>> Sammy Jones
>>