[78-L] TW Musicraft N7 set

[David Lennick]

Also, perhaps surprisingly, Obie's Allegro reissues of Musicraft recordings are 
variable but sometimes come from clean original lacquers, without any reverb or 
hoking up.

dl

On 10/14/2011 5:54 PM, djwein wrote:
> I have Artie Shaw's "Let's Walk" on Parlophone - the very best sound comes from those Shaw&  Mel Torme sides that were picked up and issued on MGM from original masters. Quiet Metrolite pressings!  The Wilson set you refer to was reissued by MGM as 78 set K-100, later on LP - I'd look for that!
>
> Dave Weiner
>
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> Not for nothing do we call that label Musicrap. If you can find Canadian
> pressings on Musicana, they're much quieter, but not everything was issued up
> here. The only Parlophone issue I've seen of Musicrafts is the Artie Shaw "Pied
> Piper", and that was dubbed, but at a somewhat low level.
>
> dl
>
> On 10/14/2011 5:18 PM, Iñigo Cubillo wrote:
>> Another rare thing I’ve noticed, which I indeed asked years ago, and I forgot about it.
>> THis is the annoying bad quality of Musicraft pressings of Teddy Wilson set N7, records 369-372 of 1946.
>> Why do they sound so terrible? They’re shiny 78s that sound like old Paramounts played to the bones!
>> When child I bought one of those italian LPs with a mix of TW, Art Tatum and Earl Hines. TW tracks sound
>> terrible, and I blamed on the cheap LP. What a surprise 25 years later when I acquired the original Musicraft
>> set (probably later pressings, as even the labels look different, bright red, more modern)
>> just to see that the italian LP was a perfect dub of a terrible original pressing!
>> I’ve also picked some spanish Odeon (HMV) copies. Pity that my favourite (Strange Interlude) broke
>> down falling from the gramophone lid where I’d deposited it, just as I forgot the record was there and I
>> opened the lid... Sniffff !!!
>> Those spanish Odeons are pressings from parts coming through british Parlophone. And those don’t sound so bad; even I
>> remember that they don’t have this terrible Musicraft sound. They britishers must have been taken from original metals,
>> while indeed the late Musicraft pressings are bad pressings (on soft good 1948 or so shellac).
>> Must I try to get an older set, nearer to the original 1946? I really love those records, and it’s very annoying each time
>> I play them.
>> Iñigo
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