[78-L] Deluxe, was TW Musicraft N7 set

[Taylor Bowie]

Is there anything worse in the 40s (for record quality)  than the Billy 
Eckstine Orch sides on Deluxe?  I have stuff on every crap-ola label from 
the 20s on....but not even the worst Grey Gulls drive me as bat-shit as do 
those Deluxe sides.

I've never been able to decide which is worse...the recording quality or the 
surfaces.   What kind of ground-up crud were those things pressed from!?!?!?

Of course I love the music on the damn things,  but not even tweaked-up 
reissues sound any good.


Taylor


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Iñigo Cubillo" <ice261263 at gmail.com>
To: "78-L" <78-l at 78online.com>
Sent: Friday, October 14, 2011 2:18 PM
Subject: [78-L] TW Musicraft N7 set


> 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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