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

[David Lennick]

The Raymond Scott Nationals. (The Billy Eckstine Nationals are pretty rotten as 
well.)

The Sarah Vaughan Musicrafts when Musicraft had gone apesh*t over the echo 
chamber at Radio Recorders (combine that with the noisiest shellac ever dredged 
up, probably from the infirmary at the Bronx Zoo).

Black and purple label Capitols from about 1947 when someone decided to drop 
the levels and take out the mid-range. (If you find DJ pressings of these, 
rejoice, for you can EQ them to your heart's content, but they have the same 
over-use of echo as Musicrafts.)

dl

On 10/14/2011 6:18 PM, Taylor Bowie wrote:
> 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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