[78-L] RRe: question for dance band experts

[David Lennick]

That makes 3 of us who own that record which was issued only in Canada (and I 
forget what the results were of our attempts to determine if the electrical 
side was made in Montreal or was a US side that escaped being listed in Rust).

dl

On 10/26/2012 11:57 AM, James Tennyson wrote:
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> I might have missed mention of this in a previous post, so if so forgive me,
> .but one thing that in the acoustic era the one big difference between the
> recordings and they way they played on the dance stand was the use of the
> drums.  Acoustic sides rarely use the full drum kit. Percussion was reduced
> to the cymbal crash and the chinese block which stood in for the snare drum.
> Anything else muddied the reproduction. If you want to hear an " acoustic "
> era dance band as they played during gigs , listen to that Youtube vid of
> Ben Bernie playing for the early de Forest Photophone short in 1925.
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAExrFCVVT0  and if you turn up your bass you
> can actually hear the drummer.  He's still  playing quietly but he's there .
> The other recording that really does show the difference is that HMV Victor
> demonstration disc side of Jack Shilkret doing You and on both sides: once
> acoustic and one electric. In the electrical version they let the percussion
> go wild. And in a way  they didn't allow on most early electric sides
> either.>
>> The New Orleans Rhythm Kings insisted that bassist Steve Brown participate
>> in their Gennett recordings even though the instrument couldn't actually
>> be recorded just to keep the feel of the live performance
>
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>> From: Doug Pomeroy [mailto:audiofixer at verizon.net]
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>> Don't forget, a majority of the New Orleans jazz bands used string
>> bass.Buddy Bolden, Sam Morgan, Jelly Roll Morton, many others.>  >  I doubt
>> that it would have occurred to anyone to use a bass in the 20s. The>
>> guitar wasn't even coming into use yet and banjos were still popular. If
>> you>  couldn't dance to it or march to it, why bother?>  >  dlDoug
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