[78-L] Subject: Re: MAJOR RECORDS

[David Lennick]

One SpeedyQ disc I looked at this evening actually says Gennett Records, 
Richmond Ind on the label. Others all give the So. Flower Street address.

dl

On 8/17/2010 8:14 PM, Michael Biel wrote:
>    On 8/17/2010 7:51 PM, David Lennick wrote:
>> 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
>    This is one of the addresses listed in the 1937 Broadcasting magazine
> Yearbook for Gennett.  Tom J. Valentino is listed as the manager, while
> Harry Genett is the manager of the LA address 1344 So Flower St.  Lee A
> Butt is the manager in Richmond, Ind.  (Pause for laughs and snide
> remarks.)   Masque and Standard are also on the list although they do
> not mention sound effects specifically for Standard.  Major and Speedy Q
> are not listed.
>
> In my 1951 Turnbull book he shows a NYC address for Gennet as 67 W 44th,
> as well as the two Starr Piano Richmond Ind and 1344 So Flower St LA
> addresses it shares with Speedy-Q.  But what is strange that I didn't
> notice yesterday that the NYC address for Speedy-Q is Charles Mickelson
> (sic.)!   25 W 47th.
>
> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
>
>> 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
>>>
>
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