Recorded on March 14, 1928. Under the direction of Celso Hurtado. Vocal Chorus by Harold "Scrappy" Lambert (as "Ralph Haines"). Also released as "Dixie Marimba Players" [the group's actual name] on Domino 4115 and Regal 8517.
Oh! Splendid!😁 I love the tune's sheer peppiness! sprinkled with softer tempos, expressing the deep love that a guy has for his gal or vice versa. My thanks 78fox!💖
This couldn't have been a Ribbon mic, since the only model in 1931 was the PB31 Mic, which only 50 were made and were not released to the public. The RCA 44A was the first one released to the public and put into studios in 1933.
Only a 100 years later we can make a picture of people move with AI and we even can video call people and talk to them from anywhere in the world by using a little cigarette case like thingy. This is crazy, 25 years ago I watched a cartoon where something like smartphones and video calls was used and they called it "science fiction".
Recorded on September 17, 1929. Adrian Schubert and his Orchestra. Vocal Refrain by Harold "Scrappy" Lambert. Also issued on Lincoln 3325 and Romeo 1100.
Plaza Matrix 9025. The Banner issue (6537) is credited to "Dubin's Dandies" which might mean tenor sax man Joe Dubin is probably doing the solo at 1:40. By late 29 Cameo, Perfect and Plaza were all one company but still were using different matrix numbers. This is Cameo matrix 4081. Take 3.
Recorded on October 17, 1929. Also released on Lincoln 3336 and Romeo 1111. Lou Gold and his Orchestra, under an alias. Vocal Refrain by "The Radio Imps" {Tom Macy-Ed Smalle}.
The clarity is nothing short of amazing! Does a Victor Victrola X have a lid to dampen the mechanical noise of the stylus on the shellac and the sound of the turntable? (Just a hunch, but I don't think one would hear it quite so clearly if it had an overhead horn and thus an exposed playing surface, though I'm certainly no expert!) Thank you for sharing this!
Yep, the lid does dampen at least the sound of the needle on the shellac, with clean records it's not as noticable but with a worn disc the difference can be pretty amazing.
Simply lovely one 78fox! Leo Reisman has a way with music. This one Swings and Sways....no not Sammy Kaye!😆 I like how the tune sort of flutters. My thanks.💖
I don't know too much about the technology itself, so I'd recommend this wikipedia article: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ribbon_microphone However, most Victor recordings made (at least in the New England area) after 1930 have a diamond with the initials V.E. stamped in the runout, as opposed to an oval like earlier electric recordings. This particular recording isn't super "high fidelity" sounding, but some of these diamond VE ribbon mic recordings are very nice. For example, Waring's Pennsylvanians' "Fit As A Fiddle." If I were to go just by ear, I'd have probably thought this Leo Reisman recording was a plain old carbon mic recording, as it sounds about the same as one, save for the drums having a little more fidelity.
Not very many! They're fairly hard to come across. I just picked up Vess Ossman's 1907 recording of Maple Leaf Rag, which I'll get around to uploading eventually. It's a little rough though.
