[78-L] Royal Wedding - not OT

[David Lennick]

Royal Wedding is also a movie soundtrack that was issued on 78. Great numbers, 
terrible movie.

dl

On 5/2/2011 6:43 PM, Michael Biel wrote:
> On 5/2/2011 6:46 AM, Kristjan Saag wrote:
>> Julian Vein asked:
>>
>>    >   How come that recordings of "celebrities" from the early days of the
>> industry are of such poor quality, whereas commercial recordings were
>> generally fine?
>> --
>> "The Victoria cylinder", if genuine, had probably been used several
>> times for recording.
>
> The same problems beset the Brahms cylinder, but most of the other 1888
> and later celebrity cylinders are great!  In some cases the BBC and
> Swedish archive copies are dubs, the original cylinders being sent to
> Edison in New Jersey.  The transfers I heard from Walter Welch in the
> 70s have a presence that you can hear the room acoustics on some.  As
> noted, these cylinders were originals that were played directly.
> Commercial recordings might not have been played as much.
>
> Once we get into the 20th century in both disc and cylinders the
> celebrity cylinders, such as those by the Presidential candidates in
> 1908 and 1912, these recordings are loud, bright, and clear.
>
> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com