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[Royal Pemberton]

True....sad as well that the majors also saw fit to inflict heavy-handed
processing on the sound of the old recordings, compressing and limiting what
dynamic range they had out of them, drenching them in reverb....and that's
just the mono editions.  (I'm mostly thinking of RCA Victor; I think
Columbia and Decca used more sense or at least great restraint in altering
the sound of any of their vintage items.)

On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 12:20 AM, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>wrote:

> On 11/12/2010 7:10 PM, Steven wrote:
> >>
> > Oddly enough, it was the sudden growth of the "independent re-issue"
> > labels that led to their "sudden" demise! All of this vintage jazz
> material
> > was "owned" by Victor and/or American Record Corporation; however,
> > neither firm was aware of the amount of interest in the stuff...! When
> > the "pirate" re-issue operations became rather successful (as well as
> > profitable..!), Victor and particularly ARC realized the potential value
> > of re-issuing the material. They quickly forced the new labels to shut
> > down...and started their own re-issue projects!
> >
> > Steven C. Barr
>
> And promptly screwed them up. Great starts, fuggedaboudit follow-up. Victor
> didn't really do a comprehensive reissue series till the Vintage line in
> the
> 60s, despite the X label, the Downbeat Series and keeping the Glenn Miller
> flame alive (and some occasional Fats and Duke and Artie and other greatest
> hits). Columbia's reissues were few and far between except for Louis, Bix
> and
> Bessie, till the 60s. If there hadn't been film bios of Eddy Duchin and
> Ruth
> Etting, we wouldn't have had reissues of them at all from Columbia.
>
> dl
>
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