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Hi Aaron: Yes, you are correct, Bill Grauer. Typing off the top of my head always boomerangs on me! -- Tom Fine ----- Original Message ----- From: "Aaron Levinson" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Sunday, September 07, 2008 3:07 PM Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Fortissimo > Tom- > > I do believe it was spelled Grauer not Gauer and that many Riverside > LP's (including the Barretto) actually had a credit at the bottom of the > label that said: > > Bill Grauer Productions Inc. > New York City > > AA > > > Tom Fine wrote: >> Hi David/Aaron: >> >> I just read something somewhat relevant to this, in one of the Orin >> Keepnews Collection CD reissues booklets. Apparently, Bill Gauer, >> Keepnews' partner at Riverside, was a racing car nut and was very into >> making these "environmental audio" recordings. The "super-fi" records >> were not mentioned in Keepnews' notes, this was to a Blue Mitchell >> album. The reference was that Keepnews was down in Florida with Gauer >> helping out on one of these racing-cars recordings. Cannonball >> Adderley insisted Keepnews go with him and hear Blue Mitchell in a >> club during the trip, and Keepnews was duly impressed and signed >> Mitchell to Riverside. To everyone's chagrin, the Mitchell records on >> Riverside never sold well, and it's a credit to Keepnews that he still >> felt strongly enough about Mitchell's talent to include "Blue Soul" in >> the Keepnews Collection reissues. >> >> Tying in to Aaron's post, Ray Barretto provided some tasty percussion >> on that album. >> >> -- Tom Fine >> >> PS -- one of the earliest "stereo spectacular" albums featuring race >> cars was "500 Miles to Victory" on Mercury, recorded by Bill Putnam >> and originally issued in stereo on a 2-track tape in 1956. >> >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Lennick" >> <[log in to unmask]> >> To: <[log in to unmask]> >> Sent: Sunday, September 07, 2008 12:56 PM >> Subject: [ARSCLIST] Fortissimo >> >> >>> Anyone remember, or even hear of, a label called FORTISSIMO produced >>> by Riverside in 1961? Super-quiet surfaces (wonder how they managed >>> that? Riverside never turned out a quiet disc in their lives), discs >>> cut from the inside out (changer owners must have loved that), master >>> tapes recorded at 60 IPS "with the heads oriented horizontally" >>> (whaaaaa..?), a 400hz alignment tone, and repertoire such as Racing >>> Cars, Jets, Pipe Organ (miked from inside, I think) and Banjo Polkas. >>> >>> Amazing what turns up in some of these old audio magazines that I've >>> never run across in over 45 years of record collecting. >>> >>> dl >>> >> >