[78-L] Double tracking [FWD]

[Mike Harkin]

Havw to check when I get home, but I think there is 25cm black HMV of folk songs.

Heifetz played the Bach Double with himself....

Mike in Plovvdiv

--- On Wed, 1/13/10, Doug Pomeroy <pomeroyaudio at att.net> wrote:

> From: Doug Pomeroy <pomeroyaudio at att.net>
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Double tracking
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Date: Wednesday, January 13, 2010, 6:06 PM
> 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"?
> 
> DOug
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> > Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 15:44:44 -0800 (PST)
> > From: DAVID BURNHAM <burnhamd at rogers.com>
> > Subject: [78-L] double tracking
> > To: 78-L at 78online.com
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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.
> >
> >
> >
> > Cary Ginell
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> >
> > 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
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