[78-L] 14 inch Victor Special DeLuxe

[David Lennick]

In Rosemary's Baby, the couple apparently has only one record, a Dot LP 
(appropriate!), which Rosemary plays at 45. Hey, at least it moves, unlike the 
record Fanny plays in "Funny Lady"..music and surface noise emanate from an 
acoustical player whose turntable isn't turning.

dl

Michael Biel wrote:
> I stumbled across this on U Tube.  He plays a 14 inch Special DeLuxe 
> 2030 The Flying Dutchman  making great care supposedly to play it at the 
> appropriate 60 RPM but it IS actually being played at 45 and he is 
> getting all bent out of shape when people tell him that it is at 45. You 
> can count the speed yourself.   Actually he says that he is playing it 
> at the speed where it sounds right to him.  Aside from the fact that he 
> is playing the record on a VERY NOISY Victor D (which badly needs at 
> least one new gear) and the record sounds much worse than it should by 
> being played acoustically (I once dubbed off Fred Williams' collection 
> of about 14 of these huge babies and they sounded GREAT electrically) 
> does the key it is being played in at this speed sound right to the 
> musicians in this group???  I know the tempo is   m-u-c-h     t-o-o    
> s-l-o-w  but how about the key?? 
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ILU5VTMLyM&feature=related
> 
> By the way, it will also shock most of you to see him butcher a copy of 
> Williams and Walker  "I Don't Like the Face You Wear" on Monarch 987 on 
> that same Model D with a needle that is LOOSE!!  Look at the needle as 
> he puts the reproducer on the record. 
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFzJdjhWRE8&feature=related
> 
> And does anybody know who this guy is??
> 
> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
>