[78-L] Subject: Re: MAJOR RECORDS

[David Lennick]

I was just collating my Gennett Sound Effects discs and noticed that one has a 
paste-on athe bottom of each label..THOMAS J. VALENTINO Electrical 
Transcriptions, 729 7th Avenue, New York, N.Y.

dl

On 8/16/2010 3:16 PM, Margaret G. Still wrote:
> 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
>