[78-L] A novice-y type Purple OKeh question

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From: Gregg Kimball [mailto:gdkimball at cox.net]
Sent: Friday, December 11, 2009 06:57 AM
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I am glad you asked, and that David answered, because I had wondered the same thing. It also prompted a question.Last night I was doing a CD compilation of Irish and French-Canadian stuff featuring accordion (I'm sure there's a joke there), and one of the tunes was "The Pigeon on the Gate" by O'Leary's Irish Minstrels from purple Okeh 84145. It actually sounds really good. I had assumed this disc was a re-issue of Columbia 33353-F, but looking at the catalog number now, maybe it was also released on Vocalion?Has anyone put the discographical information from any of the Columbia ethnic series on-line?Gregg----- Original Message ----- From: "David Lennick" To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2009 11:26 PMSubject: Re: [78-L] A novice-y type Purple OKeh question>> Andrea Walsh wrote:>> Hello all,>>>> I have recently (on a whim) been playing all my 78's that were issued on>> Purple OKeh, and I was planning on posting them to my blog. While>> listening, I notice some are muddy sounding, or at least sort of >> far-away,>> and others are really clear and the sound is much more defined.>>>> This may seem like a stupid novice type question, but what are the>> differences? Are some of these dubs and others original? I have been>> listening to everything from country and western swing to jazz and swing,>> novelty, gospel, rhythm and blues and blues.>>>> I read what Rust has to say about the purple issue OKehs in the American>> Record Label Book, that the revived OKeh series of 1940 and after have>> normal CBS series masters, but what does that mean? Is, for instance the>> recording of Bessie Smith doing "Gimme A Pigfoot" (OK 6893) a dub of a>> Vocalion and say, Blind Boy Fuller doing "Step It Up And Go" (OK 05476) >> an>> original?>>>> How can one tell an "original" recording, if there is such a thing?>>>> I am confuzzled.>>>> Thanks in advance-->>>> Andrea>> _________________________________>> _______________________________________________> 78-L mailing list> 78-L at klickitat.78online.com> http://klickitat.78online.com/mailman/listinfo/78-l _______________________________________________78-L mailing list78-L at klickitat.78online.comhttp://klickitat.78online.com/mailman/listinfo/78-l