[78-L] Overdubs

[Ryan Wolfe]

The MGM titles on that set all seem to be from disc sources. 


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 From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
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On 2/28/2013 7:41 PM, Michael Biel wrote:
> From: Ryan Wolfe<nextset4 at yahoo.com>
>> 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.
>
> I wonder if any were lost in the Universal City warehouse fire?
>
> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com

Seems to me the big 10-disc "compleat" Williams is full of dropouts on a lot of 
the early MGMs that might have been on tape.

dl
>
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> ______________________________
>   From: Royal Pemberton<ampex354 at gmail.com>
> 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....
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