[78-L] Musicraft was Crown and Sutton LPs

[David Weiner]

The Torme, Shaw and Sarah Vaughan recordings released on 78 by MGM from
Musicraft masters were all master pressings.

Dave Weiner

On 11/5/13 2:17 AM, "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca> wrote:

>Just adding that the Musicraft material that went to Allegro was also
>from 
>masters and not from shellac. The Shostakovich 7th Symphony lp issue used
>some 
>alternate takes. A lot of the Sarah Vaughan and Artie Shaw reissues had
>pretty 
>decent sound (except for that horrible echo chamber Musicraft fell in
>love with).
>
>dl
>
>On 11/4/2013 8:19 PM, Thomas Stern wrote:
>> In the mid-late 1960's, much of the MUSICRAFT catalog was licensed to
>>many "99cent" labels
>> by OLIBIN, Inc., which was owned by OLIVER SABIN, who was at one time
>>President, and held other
>> positions in the MUSICRAFT company.
>> To the best of my knowledge, ALL the transfers were made from shellac.
>> Some time later Albert Marx revived the Musicraft label for LP and
>>later CD reissues of
>> the catalog.  I do not know if any masters were ever located.  After
>>the bankruptcy of Musicraft,
>> some material was released by MGM who presumable had access to metal
>>parts and other source material.
>>
>> It is a theory that some recordings made for Musicraft during it's last
>>days were not among the
>> holdings transferred to various other companies, but were retained by
>>the A&R people who supervised
>> the session.  For example, there was a circa 1948 Carl Sandburg session
>>which may have been the
>> source for the Lyrichord release, and many years later, some Leadbelly
>>recordings done by Paul Puner
>> were released as a "bonus" CD in an OMEGA(Vanguard) set of WEAVERS
>>recordings.
>>
>> Can anyone confirm or refute any of this??
>>
>> Best wishes, Thomas.
>>>