[78-L] double tracking

[DAVID BURNHAM]

Wasn't "Doggie" an early example of double-tracked vocals? Other than Mary Ford, who were the others to do this? One that I can think of off-hand was a disc by Jerry Colonna on Decca. Don't have the info here, but on the label, the artist credit reads: Jerry Colonna Jerry Colonna Jerry Colonna.



Cary Ginell
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I think we've been down this road before but I think Patti Page's "Tennessee Waltz", (recorded 1950) was an earlier example of double tracking. 

I'm sure the earliest example has to be Heifetz's recording of the Bach Double Violin Concerto where he plays both solo parts in 1946, (certainly no tape involved here).  The assumption is that he recorded the 1st violin and the orchestra part first and then overdubbed the 2nd violin, but this would mean that the orchestra and the more important 1st violin part are 2nd generation on the final recording.  It would be interesting to discover if they recorded it differently - for example, they could have recorded the 2nd violin part first and then used it as a guide to record the orchestra and first part.  Or they could have recorded the 2nd violin solo and just the lower strings in the orchestra first and then the rest of the orchestra and the 1st solo next.  Or they might just have cut the orchestra in half, (it's only strings), and had that half an orchestra play the whole thing twice.

db