[78-L] Carnegie Hall 10-6-1939

[simmonssomer]

The Miller band was the final band on the bill. The others were Paul 
Whiteman, Fred Waring and Benny Goodman.
Miller played fourteen tunes. Issued on Victor LPM 1506. which I am playing 
now.My LP has adquate bass response, decent percussion but no Hall ambience 
as if recorded in a small dead studio...otherwise it is a decent transfer 
(on my LPM 1506.) Dual turntable..Ohm H Speakers.

Al Simmons

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Lewis" <uncledavelewis at hotmail.com>
To: "78-l" <78-l at 78online.com>
Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2011 12:26 PM
Subject: [78-L] Carnegie Hall 10-6-1939


>
> On this date in 1944 Glenn Miller's plane sank beneath the waves of the 
> English Channel, likely hit
> by "friendly" bombs jettisoned from above. On 10-6-1939, his civvy 
> orchestra made its only appearance
> at Carnegie Hall, on a three band bill kicked off by Benny Goodman to 
> celebrate the 25th anniversary of
> the founding of ASCAP. Does anyone know who the second band was?
>
> I must say that the 1958 RCA Victor LP derived from the Miller portion of 
> the show is a miserable
> transfer job. All high-mid, not a whiff of bass response, inconsistent 
> signal from the drums, etc. The
> sound of the hall, and the way Carnegie Hall Recorders picked it up from 
> the pipes, is distinctive and
> should be familiar to most transfer engineers. You aim for a certain 
> combination of frequencies and then
> you have something good; it's easy. The 1950 CBS transfer from Benny's set 
> of 1938 Carnegie Hall records -- 
> which CBS then threw away -- sounds quite good I think, at least before 
> they started reprocessing it
> into stereo and turning it into chemical mud.
>
> Does anyone know if the whole concert survives, and do we have the 
> original records still? And was the
> 1993 BMG CD of Miller's portion made from the 1958 tape or from the 
> originals? I'm guessing it came from
> the tape.
>
>
> Uncle Dave Lewis
> uncledavelewis at hotmail.com
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