[78-L] Majestic Duraflex

[David Lennick]

And the vinyl repressings on Varsity are probably much quieter, in addition to being remastered from the original lacquers. Louis Prima's Majestics are almost listenable on Varsity. Who'da thunk it?

dl
 
> Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 15:08:11 -0400
> From: mbiel at mbiel.com
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Majestic Duraflex
> 
> >
> > David Lennick wrote: Interesting..my Al Smith album is the usual crud. (Forgot
> > it was on Majestic..
> Alan Bunting wrote:
> > My experience is much the same. I went to an immense amount of trouble (and expense) to obtain Duraflex pressings of Majestic's Percy Faith recordings to use on my Percy Faith collection for Living Era but they turned out to be just as noisy as the original shellacs.
> >
> > Alan Bunting 
> >
> > 
> 
> I think you misunderstood David. He was saying that his copy of the set 
> was on shellac -- it was available either way. He had earlier praised 
> the quality of the vinyl version of Captain from Castile. 
> 
> Mike Biel mbiel at mbiel.com 
> 
> >> I thought was on DeLuxe for some
> >> reason.) Any vinyl Majestics I've seen have had white
> >> labels, including Captain from Castile. And timings and
> >> publishers are shown on the labels but not on the civilian
> >> editions.
> >>
> >> 
> >
> > 
> 
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