[78-L] Victor 27485, the Sidney Bechet 'one man band' record.

David Lennick dlennick at sympatico.ca
Sun Nov 15 16:16:40 PST 2009


Don't tell Leopold Stokowski.

dl

Royal Pemberton wrote:
> And even make quasi-stereo by panning them to different points!
> 
> On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 6:08 PM, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>wrote:
> 
>> "It seemed like a good idea at the time....."? I wonder if Victor held onto
>> any
>> of the earlier generations. Probably not..and of course today you could
>> sync
>> them up and achieve what they were trying to do and still hear the first
>> tracks.
>>
>> dl
>>
>> Royal Pemberton wrote:
>>> Does anyone know the story behind the making of this record?  Whose idea
>> was
>>> it?  Why Sidney Bechet?  Was it to demonstrate some new capability in
>>> Victor's recording equipment?   Oddly enough, my copy has the Swing
>> Classic
>>> label....
>>> ________________________
>>



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