[78-L] Where were the dubbed Caruso records made?

[David Lennick]

Some were definitely done by HMV, like O Paradiso/Flower Song (Victor 14234). 
Didn't Pearl once do a set of all the dubbed versions?

dl

On 2/27/2013 7:44 PM, Michael Shoshani wrote:
> I was always under the impression that the Caruso re-recordings with the
> orchestral overdubs were made by Victor, either in Camden or New York.
>
> British Pathe, however, has a small snippet of one of their newsreels
> that shows the process being carried out in London, presumably at Abbey
> Road since the film is from 1932.
>
> The unidentified "master of ceremonies" presents an original acoustic
> version on an open-horn gramophone, then its electrically-overdubbed
> version. Curiously, the acoustic version is a later pressing to which
> the eccentric groove had been added.
>
> http://www.britishpathe.com/video/voice-grafting/query/hmv
>
> Michael Shoshani
> Chicago
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