I would love to have seen this.I seem to remember reading once,that RCA could have issued the three track Living Stereo recordings on vinyl at the time,but had some lame excuse about cost or something.Could somebody clarify this?
I also seem to recall hearing a story years ago on NPR about (RCA) Victor's records from the 30s in binaural/stereo,where they pressed the left and right channels on different records,the one this guy was talking about was Duke Ellington.I take it this was one of those experimental things that never got to market because of "cost"?
Roger
--- On Tue, 4/12/11, Michael Biel <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Steve did an ARSC presentation showing that Victor did seemingly dumb down the recordings because the better ones didn't pass the wear test. He compared one of the 1924 NY Phil WE experimentals with the same selection recorded and released around 1926. THe earlier one was better.
But some of them were great, and we can get more out of them now. I urge all of you to get the "Twentieth Century Time Capsule" Vince Giordano produced for Buddha in 1999 and listen to "The Gold Digger's Song (We're In The Money)" by Fred Astaire and Leo Reisman's Orch, May 2, 1933 Victor 24315 (BS 76075-1). The S in the pre-fix is for Western Electric's SHQ which Ted Fagen assumed meant Semi-High Quality, and seems to have taken advantage of the developments WE had made for the Western Electric Wide Range Vertical Recording. You only get a hint of the quality in the Amazon sample, or even on the Vintage reissue on LP. What Vince was able to bring out from either a vinyl test or the metal part is amazing -- you won't believe the sound of the drum kit! Likewise, the sound on the World and Associated vertical transcriptions from this era are outstanding. WE was claiming 13 and even 14 K for these recordings by 1933. This shows that the
claims of FFRR are ten years too late!
Mike Biel [log in to unmask]
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