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

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Thu Feb 28 05:13:08 PST 2013


I did not know there were so many.

Were there other artists who were given this same treatment in the early 
electrical days, or was Mr. C. the sole recipient of this honor?

joe salerno

On 2/28/2013 12:14 AM, Michael Biel wrote:
>
> 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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Joe Salerno


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