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

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Wed Feb 27 21:24:31 PST 2013


I love the CU of the early 1930s changer.

Did you notice in the first CU where the arm is placed on the early 
record that the turntable has not come up to speed yet but the music 
sounds just fine....the magic of movies.

joe salerno

On 2/27/2013 7:46 PM, Jeff Sultanof wrote:
> Yes, they did.
>
> Jeff Sultanof
>
> On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 8:04 PM, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>wrote:
>
>> 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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Joe Salerno


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