[78-L] Overdubs

[Ryan Wolfe]

The MGM Hank Williams tracks weren't recorded badly, except that the best modern transfers are now mastered from lacquer discs.

Where are the original tape sources, it would seem a big outfit like MGM should have been recording him on tape.


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 From: Royal Pemberton <ampex354 at gmail.com>
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And of course there's the hot and cold running Hank Williams tracks, where
MGM squeezed endless blood from those turnips from whatever sources,
however badly recorded the originals (and it seems his recordings were
sonically quite a few notches below the best of the same era)....mono, then
later stereo overdubs including several albums of those done again but
adding a string section....

On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 11:18 PM, Randy Watts <rew1014 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Quite a few tracks Bing Crosby recorded (in mono) for his radio series in
> the 1950s got new stereo backing tracks overdubbed onto them after Crosby's
> death. Think the original accompaniment on most was a small combo led by
> Buddy Cole. Those were rather well done, as I recall. At least the new
> accompaniment isn't obnoxiously obvious, as usually seems to be the case.
>
> I remember that Nat Cole album with the 1940s trio tracks overdubbed with
> strings. Seems like some of the other albums Capitol cobbled together after
> Cole's death from 1950s masters done originally with big orchestras had new
> "contemporary" rhythm sections overdubbed onto them.
>
> Randy
>
>
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> > From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
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> >Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2013 4:44 PM
> >Subject: Re: [78-L] Overdubs
> >
> >I remember a King Cole album, but thought it was a couple of years earlier
> >(since I got it through the station and no longer worked there in '69).
> One of
> >the most ludicrous overdubs ever was the fake stereo reissue of Albert
> White's
> >"Your Father's Mustache in Hi Fi" with a freakin' ACCORDION added.
> >
> >There was also the Victor reissue of Ray Noble's "Lady of Spain" where Al
> >Bowlly's vocal was supplemented and made into a trio, for some reason.
> >
> >dl
> >
> >On 2/28/2013 5:14 PM, David Weiner wrote:
> >> The Ferrier is a lovely album, but not exactly recent - the stereo
> overdub
> >> was done in 1960.
> >>
> >> There was also an interesting  Capitol LP by the Nat King Cole Trio
> with a
> >> stereo orchestra added in 1969.
> >>
> >> Dave Weiner
> >>
> >> On 2/28/13 4:57 PM, "DAVID BURNHAM"<burnhamd at rogers.com>  wrote:
> >>
> >>> One more recent very successful overdub was a program of Bach and
> Handel
> >>> arias by Kathleen Ferrier.  The original album was in mono, (as were
> all
> >>> of Ferrier's recordings), but they brought back the same conductor,
> >>> (Boult), and the same orchestra to the same hall and superimposed the
> now
> >>> stereo orchestra on Ferrier's voice.
> >>>
> >>> db
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