[78-L] Cany Anyone Identify this Singer

[Don Chichester]

> Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 16:31:09 +0000
> From: ampex354 at gmail.com
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Cany Anyone Identify this Singer
> 
> It would. There's also the acoustic versus electric recording
> factor....there was the paradigm shift from the earlier type of voice that
> singers in the acoustic recording era had to have to record with any
> quality, to those with voices that seemed to need all the help they could
> get from mikes. But would someone like Arthur Fields or Irving Kaufman
> represent someone 'in between', in that they were successful recording both
> acoustic and electric sides? It would be instructive to explore whether
> they sang the same for either type of system, or if they changed anything,
> how and in what ways.
> 
When I met Billy Murray around 1953 he told me that when Victor began using the microphone, he had to change the whole style of his singing.  Crooning, he called it.  But on a number of discs with Paul whiteman, the old style still is evident.

Don
 		 	   		  
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