[78-L] Harold Arlen question

[Don Cox]

On 17/01/2013, Don Cox wrote:

> On 16/01/2013, David Lennick wrote:
> 
>> The reason this has come up is because the Living Era Harold Arlen CD
>> has been reissued as part of a double set on Retrospective, and in
>> neither case was WOODY credited with the vocal. Neither the
>> labelmeister nor I have any idea how that got missed, and the reissue
>> has been reviewed in Jazz Journal, taking us to task for implying
>> that Arlen was the sole vocalist on this track.
>> 
>> As I recall, the MCA CD was a bad transfer. I can hear the overlap on
>> my Naxos issue. Slight, but there.
>> 
> If the Proper transfer was taken from the MCA, that would explain why
> I can't hear a second voice.
> 
> Or it might be my hearing.
> 
I listened again at a higher volume and now agree with everyone else.

It is definitely Arlen singing the line "My Momma done tol' me".

But this made me realise I need some better-transferred versions of
classic Herman recordings, so I will get DL's three Naxos CDs.

Regards
-- 
Don Cox
doncox at enterprise.net