[78-L] Velvet Tone (et al.) double-track series

[David Weiner]

Linking to the previous thread, too bad it wasn't misspelled as "Kate
Smith Presents a Mammary Program."

Dave W.


On 4/29/12 7:01 PM, "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca> wrote:

>The other side was Kate Smith Presents A Memory Program, and that was all
>new.
>
>dl
>
>On 4/29/2012 6:35 PM, Royal Pemberton wrote:
>> I remember hearing one side of that Lewis record.  It was the side with
>>the
>> two titles from 2181-D, 'The lonesome road' and 'Dinah'.  I don't know
>> whether it was an engineering goof or a deliberate edit made for timing
>> considerations, but 'Lonesome road' omitted Ted's spoken 'I'll be on the
>> front door goin' out' at its end.
>>
>> On Sun, Apr 29, 2012 at 11:26 PM, David
>>Lennick<dlennick at sympatico.ca>wrote:
>>
>>> The Ted Lewis longer playing record was dubbed from two singles, but as
>>> far as
>>> I know that was the only one. It was also the only twelve-incher.
>>>
>>> dl
>>>
>>> On 4/29/2012 6:17 PM, David Weiner wrote:
>>>> It's in the Dance Band Discography - by Ben Selvin, mx. 236013-1,
>>>>Harmony
>>>> 6504-H, recorded January 12, 1932.
>>>> There were about a dozen issues in this fine-grooved long-playing
>>>>series
>>>> from the 236000 matrix  block, all issued on
>>>>Harmony-Clarion-Velvetone.
>>>> Some were one 5-minute tune, others were two songs on the same side.
>>>> Columbia also did a similar group of long-plays, in the 255000 matrix
>>>> block, issued as numbers 18000-D and up. All were newly recorded,
>>>>AFAIK.
>>>> Mostly dance medleys.
>>>>
>>>> Dave W.
>>>>
>>>> On 4/29/12 5:43 PM, "Harold Aherne"<leotolstoy_75 at yahoo.com>   wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Have the discographical data for these ever been published? I looked
>>> this
>>>>> one
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKR0P8zhX_U
>>>>>
>>>>> up in the Brooks-Rust Columbia series but found nothing (and
>>>>>likewise,
>>>>> nothing
>>>>> in the OKeh book). Anyone know if they were "original" recordings or
>>>>> dubbed from
>>>>> previously-recorded masters?
>>>>>
>>>>> -HA
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> _______________________________________________
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