[78-L] Acoustic/electrical recordings on same disc

[Jeff Austin]

Re:  the whole sorry mess of Brunswick's entrance to the world of electrical recording, Yahoo Groups' remarkable "Electrola" list has a stunning level of technical information and history for that whole era.  I haven't been a member for some time, but don't, off-hand, recall if there was crossover between that group and ToNY.  In any event, lots of interesting stuff.

J.




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From: Dan Van Landingham <danvanlandingham at yahoo.com>
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Sent: Thu, January 7, 2010 10:34:21 PM
Subject: Re: [78-L] Acoustic/electrical recordings on same disc

You're right regarding the sound of those acoustic Brunswicks.I felt that their recordings in
the mid to late thirties were horrible-I mentioned a 1937 Brunswick I have of Gus Arnheim's
orchestra doing Shubert's "Serenade" and it was truly awful.Those recordings from the mid
twenties were so much better.However,I do remember a Duke Ellington date where some
engineer put a speaker and mike in the men's room to give it an echo chamber like sound.
This was around 1936.Can anyone give me some input regarding the rather high quality 
sound OKeh recordings from the twenties? I can cite a few Bix Beiderbecke-Frank Trumb-
auer for examples such as "Three Blind Mice" and "Krazy Kat".

--- On Thu, 1/7/10, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca> wrote:


From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
Subject: Re: [78-L] Acoustic/electrical recordings on same disc
To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Date: Thursday, January 7, 2010, 9:24 PM


Yeah, the acoustics are actually better. Al Jolson's "The One I Love Belongs to 
Somebody Else" sounds fuller than most electricals. And Columbia was doing some 
very fine sounding discs around 1922, like The Columbians "Pack Up Your Sins".

dl

Steven C. Barr wrote:
> I have at least one Brunswick so paired, from their "transition period!"
> Brunswick could get away with it...their acoustic recordinggs were
> so good, and their first electrics so bad, that it is hard to tell one
> from the other...!
> 
> Steven C. Barr
> ____________________________

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