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----- Original Message -----
From: "Aaron Levinson" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, June 28, 2009 6:13 PM
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Eric Von Schmidt LP's
> Does anyone out there in the ARSC universe have doubles of Eric Von
> Schmidt vinyl that they would be willing to part with? I'm looking for his
> first on Prestige from 1963, The one he did with Dick Farina with the goat
> on the cover and finally the one on Philo called Cruel Family. Any help
> would greatly appreciated. My good pal Joe Boyd has urged me to track them
> down...
>
> AA
>
>
> Michael Biel wrote:
>> From: Roger Kulp <[log in to unmask]>
>>
>>
>>> I also seem to recall seeing something about Glenn Miller recording
>>> music to movie film
>>>
>>
>> Miller recorded on optical film for his two movies, not magnetic film
>> which is what all the other recordings being discussed were recorded on.
>> There's quite a difference.
>>
>>
>>> and everybody being so impressed with the sound.
>>
>> This comes from the liner notes of the LP issues of these soundtracks on
>> the 20th Century Fox label. Unfortunately, these LPs have some of the
>> worst sound even inflicted on the public. But the same recordings, some
>> of them in a longer form than were on the Fox albums, had been issued
>> earlier on RCA Victor LPs and were FANTASTIC! The original 10-inch
>> Victors are still the best form of the recordings. In the early years
>> of the CD, Mercury decided to do their own issue and got a friend of
>> mine, John McDonough, to write the notes. He was told that they were
>> going back to the original masters and he wrote in the notes that
>> finally we could toss away those old 10-inch Victors. But they lied to
>> him -- they used the tapes that had been used for the crappy 20th
>> Century Fox LPs. He said that the John Payne solo in "I Know Why" would
>> be included -- it wasn't. He said the long version of Chatanooga Choo
>> Choo would be included -- it wasn't. He said the sound would be as good
>> or better than the Victors -- it wasn't. He -- and all the purchasers,
>> including me -- were given the royal shaft. I'm glad I still have my
>> original 10-inch Victors.
>> But the original optical films were and are great, and they have even
>> found some of the original "angles" , which are the separate mic tracks
>> used for close-ups, which can yield stereo. So much of the music in the
>> two films is now in stereo on the LaserDiscs and DVDs.
>> But I should also mention that many of the recordings of the Miller Army
>> Air Corp Band are even better than the film recordings. Those 1943 and
>> 44 recordings are better than the recordings of the civilian band made
>> before 1942.
>>
>> Mike Biel [log in to unmask]
>>
>>
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