[78-L] Outside recordings

[David Lennick]

The CNE Chorus records state that they were recorded in performance at the 
Coliseum, not outdoors. No idea whether these were done on remote equipment or 
by broadcast line, although I'm going to have to find out one of these days for 
a project I'm working on. Oddly enough, the two twelve-inch discs turn up 
everywhere but I think I've only once seen the ten-incher (yep, i have it).

dl

On 9/27/2010 3:49 PM, DAVID BURNHAM wrote:
> Do we consider Canadian Victor as the same company as VTMC or RCA Victor
> in the U.S.?  VTMC, of course, had released recordings taken off the air
> of the Lindbergh Arrival in Washington DC, and the speeches at the
> Washington Monument which were made several months before the Ottawa
> Canadian National Exhibition recordings.  Of course the CNE recordings
> released by Canadian Victor were recordings they made, while the Compo
> recordings of the event were broadcast recordings.
>
> But a question about the Victory Tower recordings, where were the mics?
> Mics could have been inside the tower, not outside.  I'm not near the
> tapes the Nat'l Library of Canada sent me decades ago.  The perspective
> of the sound would tell us.
>
> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>
> I think you're mixing something up here.  The Victory Tower recordings in Ottawa
> had nothing to do with the CNE which, (as I'm sure you know), is in Toronto.
>   The only recordings I know of from the CNE at that time are the 4 sides, 2
> twelve inch Victor records, by the "Canadian National Exhibition Chorus" in
> 1928.  My parents sung on those records but I've never heard that they were
> recorded out doors.  I have read in "Roll Back the Years" that there was also a
> ten inch record with the National Anthems but I've never seen that disc.
>
> Having heard that Carillon many times, the records certainly sound like they
> have an outdoor perspective.  I have recorded a carillon from within a tower and
> the sound is completely different.  Also there is traffic noise on the old
> recordings.
>
> db