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

[Mike Harkin]

"Revitalise Caruso's voice"!!!???  Who was the khokhem at HMV or Victor who got the
bright idea that [a] Caruso's voice needed any revitalising, or that [b] adding an electrical
acc. over the original acoustic would do so?  Seems to me, the dubbing would DEGRADE
his voice, if anything....

Mike in Plovdiv


--- On Thu, 2/28/13, Michael Biel <mbiel at mbiel.com> wrote:

From: Michael Biel <mbiel at mbiel.com>
Subject: Re: [78-L] Where were the dubbed Caruso records made?
To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Date: Thursday, February 28, 2013, 6:14 AM


From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> 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

I have the Pearl set here (GEMM CDS 9030) and there were 36 masters in
all, 11 done in Camden and 25 in England.  All but three of these were
issued, most by BOTH Victor and HMV except for six that were on HMV
only.  There were more of these than most people imagined.

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com  


-------- Original Message --------


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
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