[78-L] Red Ingle Questions

[David Lennick]

Capitol sped up a lot of their masters in the 40s, usually by a half tone. This 
is noted in a King Cole discography and elsewhere..when I was transferring 
"Sparky's Music Mix-Up" I found the section containing Mendelssohn's Violin 
Concerto in E Minor to be 3% up. Oddly enough, this variation wasn't consistent 
through the set.

Nothing's as far off as a Rhino Dr. Demento package where Yogi Yorgesson's "Who 
Hid the Halibut on the Poop Deck" is running 10% fast though....of course that 
means it's over that much sooner.

dl

Malcolm Rockwell wrote:
> Sped up? Hmmm.
> Is there a noticeable vocal distortion with the pitch change or could 
> have the musical backing track been sped up (on tape) and the vocals 
> then overdubbed in Stafford's "normal" voice?
> I have not heard both and thus cannot make the comparison.
> Hmmm.
> Mal
> 
> *******
> 
> agp wrote:
>> At 17:10 16/08/2009, dl wrote:
>>   
>>> Great source for info and photos but I prefer the original 78s in many cases.
>>> And check out the Jo Stafford Capitol CD which has studio patter (or a
>>> breakdown, I forget which) before "Tim-Tay-Shun". I didn't know 
>>> about the skip
>>> on "Hannah"..as I say, I have virtually all of the original 78s. Seems to me
>>> that one track is transferred seriously off speed as well.
>>>     
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>> I'm working at completing my Red Ingle 78 collection. The pre-Capitol 
>> 78 may be scarce, but I do have an mp3 of it. Its just the later 
>> Capitols that I am missing (have the Mercury 78). Of course there is 
>> the Ted Weems stuff. I have only some of that, But I want to 
>> concentrate on the later stuff.
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>> I do have that Jo Stafford CD with the breakdown. As I read it, 
>> Tim-Tay-Shun was sped up for the 78, er, single. The version on the 
>> Jo Stafford CD was presented at the 'normal' speed.
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