[78-L] records by sight or feel - was: record cartoon this time

[Rodger Holtin]

Not a stunt at all, there's real truth to it, and all kidding aside, Kristian's example made perfectly good sense, too.  I didn't happen to recognize it, but others might.  I have Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue on a couple LPs and the patterns are similar on them.  Loud and soft passages do look different and that guy just saw enough of the same literature in groove format to tell them apart.  I can see how with a little more exposure and practice that this might be a very easy set of patterns to discern.  Taken from a list of 50 albums/pieces of music doesn't seem like such an impossible feat.  

The gal who worked as the classical dj at the NPR station where I worked could do it with some records as well - from more than an arm's length, well beyond the ability to read any print in the wax.  Her story was an interesting tale all by itself.  She got in a new album of the Four Seasons and said when she pulled it our of the sleeve that it was not labeled right - and it wasn't.  Right jacket, right label, wrong disc, proved by playing it.  Nobody else believed her, either, except the record company when she called them to get a replacement.  This was '89 or '90.  

And I have sifted through my own wave files that I mislabelled and picked out certain tunes by the pattern just as Kristian's example.  In fact I did that just yesterday.  I could discern the differences between takes by listening or looking - looking was easier.

Rodger



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--- On Mon, 1/10/11, Michael Biel <mbiel at mbiel.com> wrote:

From: Michael Biel <mbiel at mbiel.com>
Subject: Re: [78-L] records by sight or feel - was: record cartoon this time
To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Date: Monday, January 10, 2011, 8:45 PM

I have on videotape his appearance around 1982 on a program named 
something like "Real People".  I considered it  a stunt because the 
records were on a list of 50 that he might have had access to.  Only the 
labels were covered, so the matrix numbers were there to identify the 
company.

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com

On 1/10/2011 5:10 PM, Kristjan Saag wrote:
> http://www.snopes.com/music/media/reader.asp
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Lintgen
> Kristjan
>
>
> Rodger Holtin wrote 2011-01-10 22:25:
>> Reminds me of the news story in the 1990s (?) - some NPR affiliate classical music jock would win bets by identifying classical music records with the labels covered.  The light reflection patterns made by the loud and soft passages were different, as most of you know intimately.  I did the same thing in Music Appreciation class when the teacher was about to play the wrong side of the album.  No magic, just a little experience.
>>
>> Anybody remember that story - or know who the guy was??
>>
>> Rodger
>>
>> For Best Results use Victor Needles.
>>
>> .
>>
>> --- On Sun, 1/9/11, David Lennick<dlennick at sympatico.ca>   wrote:
>>
>>
>> From: David Lennick<dlennick at sympatico.ca>
>> Subject: Re: [78-L] record cartoon this time
>> To: "78-L Mail List"<78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
>> Date: Sunday, January 9, 2011, 9:27 PM
>>
>>
>> On 1/9/2011 10:22 PM, Steven C. Barr wrote:
>>> From: "Rodger Holtin"<rjh334578 at yahoo.com>
>>>> This one I know the original source but perhaps by Google skills not good
>>>> enough.
>>> Esquire mag Sept 1976 You can see all their covers since 1933 but not the
>>> inside on their website, unless I missed something. (Possibly a Gahan Wilson
>>> cartoon, but not sure about that)
>>>> Here's the scene:
>>>> Set in a bar, the glass on the juke box is broken, records strewn, there
>>>> are guys standing around with money in hand, another guy blindfolded with
>>>> a record in his hand with a bite taken out of it. Blindfolded guy says,
>>>> "hmmm, little cable cars climb halfway to the stars... this is 'I Left My
>>>> Heart in San Francisco.'"
>>>>
>>> Reminds me of the times I spent with the late Jeff Healey! Jeff could
>>> actually
>>> identify his records (he had about 40,000!) by "feel" (although I doubt if
>>> he
>>> could "feel" the lyrics...?!)...!
>>>
>>> Steven C. Barr
>>>
>> He could feel take numbers on Diamond Discs he hadn't seen before. He could
>> also sign autographs. I understand he also drove a car for a couple of blocks,
>> and all concerned lived to tell the tale.
>>
>> dl
>>
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