[78-L] Dubbed Victors, was RE: Jimmie Rodgers Museum

[David Lennick]

When Victor started recording after the 1942-44 ban, they were no longer doing direct masters. Some of their recordings went through 2 or 3 stages of dubs..from 16-inch to 78 lacquer and then they'd dub THAT, playing it on a wobbly turntable they hadn't been able to replace or rebuild owing to wartime restrictions. And Canada would add another generation. Oy. Feh, even.

 

dl
 
> From: stevenc at interlinks.net
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Date: Sat, 22 May 2010 22:21:54 -0400
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Jimmie Rodgers Museum
> 
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> > " Since our issues
> > of US recordings were usually pressed using imported (from USA)
> > stampers, I assume these were visual duplicates of their US 
> > counterparts?!"
> >
> > Actually Canadian Victors were dubbed, beginning sometime before the 
> > ban..probably because of wartime restrictions on shipping heavy objects 
> > such as stampers. The dubs were often pathetically bad, full of wow, 
> > clipped starts, dropouts (check out the Canadian issues of Vaughn Monroe's 
> > "When The Lights Go On" and Alvino Rey's "Deep In The Heart of Texas". 
> > Oddly enough, where we had the original parts from older recordings, we 
> > often kept using them long after the US had dubbed replacements on Artie 
> > Shaw and Fats Waller sides as well as most of the records in the HJ 
> > series. Red Seals may also have been pressed from imported parts and not 
> > dubbed.
> >
> US RCA essentially dubbed all (or nearly?!) of their extant recordings in 
> the
> 1940's...apparently so that the run-in/out grooves could be added to make
> them "changer-friendly"...! The Canadian equivalents were, in many cases,
> NOT dubbed...! Obviously. I know SFA about Canadian pressings of
> classical discs...?!
> 
> Steven C. Barr 
> 
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