[78-L] Worst reprocessed reissue

[Michael Biel]

Has anybody played the Everest/Olympic fake QUAD LPs of Al Jolson and
George M. Cohan IN Quad??  They are bad enough when they put them out in
fake stereo, but then to take that and encode it into fake quad!  I've
never put them thru a decoder.  

But I have another nomination -- the 20th Century Fox issues of the
Glenn Miller soundtracks.  And then they put it out again on Philips LP
and CD in the 80s and tricked John McDonough into doing liner notes that
claimed that the recordings were now going to be unedited and sound
better than the 10-inch RCA Victor LPs.  (He told me he wrote the notes
not knowing they were just using the old 20th Century Fox transfer.)

And then there is the Murray Hill complete Caruso box with a compressor
pumping the surface noise up and down with the modulation.  RCA got that
one pulled off the market but fast, but I did get a chance to get one to
document it as dreck.  The problem is when I get these horrible things I
need to keep them to show people how lousy they are.  I suppose David's
Lestchenko Request LP is going up on his wall somewhere.

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com  


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [78-L] Worst reprocessed reissue
From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
Date: Mon, December 21, 2009 11:32 pm
To: 78L <78-L at 78online.com>

I think I've found a candidate for "worst reprocessing of vintage
material on 
LP". Not one that's going to be in everyone's attic, I'm sure, but I
picked it 
up today in a thrift store..REQUEST SRLP 8112, "Songs of Old Russia" by
Peter 
Leschenko (or Lestchenko, as spelt here). "Recorded in Russia".
"Collectors 
Item" it also says on it. Also "Riaa playback equalization should be
used for 
this record in order that the ultimate performance capabilities may be
realized."

And what do we get?

Fake stereo, time delay you can actually count, TONS of echo, and
surface 
noise..the surface noise (swish) is also in fake stereo and time delayed
and 
with echo.

Nichevo.

dl

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