[78-L] Acoustical 78s in Spectra-Sonic Sound

[David Lennick]

On 11/8/2011 11:15 PM, Michael Biel wrote:
> From: bradc944 at comcast.net
>> Here's a thought for an April First gift: Music of a Golden Era - 78s in StereoAction
>> Haven't ruin across the set you mentioned, but will keep my eyes open for it.
>> Maybe Design was using the records to smuggle something in? (reference to the
>> slang verbage of 'camel poop')    juuuuuuust KIDDING!   Brad
>
> NOT just kidding!  In the early 80s the Everest Group's Olympic label
> issue their George M. Cohan and Al Jolson LPs -- both from acoustical
> Victors in the early teens -- in QUAD!!!!!!!!!!
>
> And of course, there are those Prime Voce CDs on Nimbus which were
> recorded from an acoustical EMG Expert gramophone in the Crazy Count's
> Castle dining room in Ambisonic surround sound quad with a multi-element
> matrix microphone.  I used to carry around the sampler CD to ARSC
> meetings and other collector meetings and called it the Nimbus Laughing
> Record, because it was usually greeted with gales of laughter.  It set
> the art of reissues and restoration back over thirty years.
>
> So, Brad, your idea is not as off-base as you thought!  Dumb, but not
> really any different from what the record industry has already done!
>
> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
>
One of MCA's double lp sets, Jimmy Dorsey I think, contained at least one track 
transferred from an original shellac 78 played in stereo. (The same rocket 
scientists issued an Ella Fitzgerald-Chick Webb lp with a skip in the original 78.)

dl

>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: David Lennick<dlennick at sympatico.ca>
>
> Here's an odd one..a Design LP of great operatic voices, GREAT VOICES OF
> A
> GOLDEN ERA VOLUME 1. McCormack, Ponselle, Caruso, Garden, Chaliapin,
> Schipa,
> Destinn, Tauber, Melba and Slezak. Surface noise intact, no filtering,
> no echo
> (amazing!)..and probably no attempt at proper playback speed (Ponselle
> sounds
> like Clara Butt here). Of course it's pressed on the usual frozen camel
> poop
> Design always used, but still..! Anyone ever run across this, or a
> Volume II?
>
> dl
>
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