[78-L] Fake stereo

[Cary Ginell]

The first Spike Jones LP I owned was the RCA reissue of "Spike Jones is Murdering the Classics." I had some Jones 78s at the time, but not ones like "Morpheus," "Il Barkio" and "Carmen." It was a revelation when I finally found 78 copies of each and was able to enjoy the delightful dry sound of Jones in mono.
Cary Ginell

> Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2013 12:45:18 -0600
> From: michael.shoshani at gmail.com
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Fake stereo
> 
> On 03/01/2013 10:56 AM, Cary Ginell wrote:
> >
> > Seems to me that whenever you saw that dreaded "(e)" alongside an RCA Victor catalog number, Ethel Gabriel's name was somewhere on the record.
> >
> 
> Technically, the (e) stood for electronically reprocessed, but yes. The 
> phrase "Reissue produced by Ethel Gabriel" strikes fear in the hearts of 
> collectors to this day. She was particularly fond of fake stereo with 
> added reverb.
> 
> This led to some bizarre effects; the 'Moonlight Serenade' track on the 
> album "Glenn Miller: Pure Gold" has what sounds like soft, gentle muted 
> brass accents over the reeds when the reeds play the long notes in the 
> first section of the song. It wasn't until I acquired and played the 
> original Bluebird 78 that I discovered those gentle muted brass accents 
> weren't really there! It was all spurious resonances and harmonic 
> distortion caused by the reverb and fake stereo delays.
> 
> 
> MS
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