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

[Steven C. Barr]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dan Van Landingham" <danvanlandingham at yahoo.com>
> 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".
>
The interesting thing about Ellington's 1926-3? recordings is that the 
(string) bass is
ALWAYS well-recorded and clearly audible! I have always assumed that Duke
positioned the instruments carefully for his recordings...?!

Steven C. Barr