[78-L] Subject: Re: MAJOR RECORDS

[Han Enderman]

I have some label images and the "sound effects" listed are sometimes quite amusing:

4002 incl. "Screech of brakes and crash with women's scream"
4023 - Birds (Jungle Background) / Herd Of Elephants [how do you do that ? - not life, I assume]
4070 - Excited Crowd Voices "Booing, Hissing, Yelling"
5002 - Laughter - Crowd [continuous] - [multitracking the OKeh record??]
5016 - Street Piano Hurdy Gurdy "El Toreador"
5021 - New Year's Noise
5026 - Air Raid (incl. Buildings Crashing)
5165 - Rocket Ship [indeed, radio use]

5159 is Mood Music (Paul Bowles), played by Max Marlin, starting with Eerie Mood
(with Valentino mx on label: TJV-TI-8002)

Han Enderman
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>>> 5160-A is the disc I have with music by Paul Bowles..quite weird, "played and conducted by Max Marlin" by an ensemble consisting of a terrible violinist or two, a hammond organ (probably) and a few other instruments. "MOOD MUSIC--Pastoral or Dream Thematic Music with Menacing Undertones". If Bowles weren't actually an important American composer this would be a tosser. I wonder if there's any more music by him on Major? (The flip side is harp interludes.)

dl


 
> From: mgstill at bellsouth.net
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 14:16:38 -0500
> Subject: [78-L] Subject: Re: MAJOR RECORDS
> 
> Thanks to Royal, David & Mike for your responses.
> 
> Thank you, Royal, for the name of Thomas J. Valentino; I was then able to
> find his NY Times obit at
> http://www.nytimes.com/1986/08/06/obituaries/thomas-j-valentino-is-dead-earl
> y-sound-effects-producer.html
> 
> David, thanks especially for the fact that Paul Bowles' experimental music
> was on this label; too bad his music was not in the pile I found.
> 
> Yes, Mike, they ARE awful, and strangely consistent. I am still wondering
> how they were created or how they were snatched, because they lack any of
> the "dirtiness" of live sounds. Wouldn't these clean sounds be much more
> expensive to create than "snatched" sound effects? Their cleanness also
> makes them less convincing as sound effects because they lack vibrancy.
> Presumably, consistency was more the point than dramatic thrust.
> 
> Best,
> Margaret G. Still
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