[78-L] Lee Wiley jilts one guy to marry Jess Stacy

[Dan Van Landingham]

My experiences with the 78s go way back to when I was quite young.I showed an aptitude for music at an
early age and people started to give me their old 78s.It turned into a fifty year hobby for me.I thought that
polystyrene would have made a good material for records.I was telling my cousin Katy how so many of 
those old records sounded like a mixture of manure and cement.I was paraphrasing a writer named Charlie
Gillette who wrote a book on the history of Atlantic Records and he alluded to National Records and its
founder Al Green.He described National's records as being a mixture of manure and gravel.I have an orig-]
al National 78 of Eckstine doing "I Only Have Eyes for You" with a dull blues called "Blues".The sound was horrible to say the least.



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From: Steven C. Barr <stevenc at interlinks.net>
To: 78-L Mail List <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Sent: Sat, April 3, 2010 4:56:45 PM
Subject: Re: [78-L] Lee Wiley jilts one guy to marry Jess Stacy

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From: "Dan Van Landingham" <danvanlandingham at yahoo.com>
> I built many a Revel model car kit as a kid in the early to mid 
> sixties.Would polysterene made a good sub-
> stitute for vinyl in the record business?I am trying to school my cousin 
> Katy regarding the rather poor sound
> quality of the old blues records she just couldn't get in to because of 
> the overall sound.I think I'll refer her to
> this site as you people have given me quite an education in terms of 
> studio acoustics,master material as well
> as the use of the early carbon mikes,amplifiers and the like.
>
1) Yes, some companies pressed microgroove records on polystyrene...!

2) Folks who are used to the "NO background noise" of modern CD's
will find the inherent background noise of analog disc records...especially
shellac 78's...disconcerting at the very least! As well, electric 78's were
usually recorded with a single microphone, whose "bandwidth" was
rather less than the studio mikes currently in use...?! In my own case,
I have been collecting and playing 78's for over 35 years (in fact, I
first played my dad's 78's at the age of 3 or 4...!) and my mind edits
out the background noise thereon...!

Steven C. Barr 

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