[78-L] Double tracking

[Doug Pomeroy]

Yes, we have been down this road before.  My notes show someone  
claimed Elisabeth Schumann recorded
a duet with herself "sometime in the 1930's".  And, someone mentioned  
a 1931 film by Lawrence Tibbett in
which he overdubbed himself singing "A Cuban Love Song"?

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> 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.
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> 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.
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> db