[78-L] Choral key question

[RJHoltin334578]

Any chance of finding the titles in print?  Gospel groups often toured  
and sold their songbooks.  I have a few and there's a ton of them out  
there.  This was the bread n butter income for James Vaughan and  
Stamps-Baxter during that very decade.

Sent from my iPod - which explainz any bad typjng


On Dec 18, 2013, at 7:30 PM, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>  
wrote:

> Got an interesting problem here, a group of 4 sides recorded by  
> Decca in 1937,
> possibly on portable equipment, of a gospel group with piano  
> accompaniment in
> Chicago (or by a team from Chicago on remote), and the speed drops  
> radically on
> each side. Around 5 percent. My problem is to figure which key  
> they're singing
> in! Obviously a good accompanist can play in just about any key, but  
> which
> seems more likely, A or A Flat? (Okay, or G Sharp?) To start in A I  
> need to go
> up close to 7%, and end the side around 2.2% up. A flat sounds a bit  
> more
> natural but the sides will end up 4% down at the end. Any thoughts,  
> choirmasters?
>
> dl
>
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