[78-L] Kaufman's Pagan Love Song on LP

[Taylor Bowie]

There seem to be plenty of electric vocals on Harmony as far back as the 700 
series...the ones mentioned by Jim as well as Jack Miller,  Jack Hart, 
Walter Cummins, Willard Robison,  etc.  None of them were "big" voices as 
were Kaufman.

The interesting thing about many of those vocal records is that they are 
sort of "hybrids" between the a vocal and a dance record.  One of my faves 
of all of them is the Jack Hart of You Were Meant For Me with a great Sam 
Lanin band for accomp.  It's really a dance band record,  except that Hart 
sings the verse as well as the chorus,  which was always unusual for a dance 
record of the era.  Same with the Millers of Singin' in the Rain,  Louise, 
etc.  and the Hanshaws often follow the pattern (Mean To Me,  Precious 
Little Thing Called Love,  etc.).

I"m making a distinction between these with larger bands  and the more 
conventional vocal records with piano or very small band accomp.

Taylor



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "jim brannen" <jbfinsup at yahoo.com>
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> Annette Hanshaw's first issues with Columbia recorded in July 1928 where 
> issued on Harmony 705-H and they are electric. Also Rudy Valle's "Doin' 
> the Racoon" recorded Oct.1928 is also electric on Harmony 759-H. Possibly 
> because their weaker more intimate voices only recorded well with a mike? 
> So far I have not found any band recordings on Columbia cheapy labels 
> prior to Jan.1930. Jimmyb
>
>
> From: Jeff Sultanof <jeffsultanof at gmail.com>
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> Sent: Sunday, May 29, 2011 9:40 AM
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Kaufman's Pagan Love Song on LP
>
> I specifically remember reading that Harmony issued electrical recordings
> sometime in 1929. I don't remember the source, and the fact that H was 
> used
> suggests to me that Coumbia was indeed ripping off Western Electric by
> making electrical recordings and not documenting them properly.
>
> Columbia took any number of liberties with recordings on the sets from the
> era under discussion. The Woody Herman set had several alternate takes 
> which
> were misidentified, and a Benny Goodman Epic reissue had an entire
> instrumental chorus edited out on the song "Full Moon (Noche de Luna)."
>
> This is a vague memory, but I specifically remember a Smithsonian Records
> reissue set where all sorts of editing took place. Martin Williams was the
> culprit, and this created a real uproar at the time. Dan Morgenstern once
> discussed it at a lecture. Does anyone remember this at all?
>
> Jeff Sultanof
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