Paul Whiteman and his Concert Orchestra - Music for Moderns, Naxos Nostalgia ... these are 1927-28 recordings, been through the CEDAR treatment, etc, so a far bit of the recording gets dumped, would take a pretty clean system to bring the tracks to life ...
A notable track is "Rhapsody in Blue", with George Gershwin on piano - the instrument still comes through well, nice space around it ...
A notable track is "Rhapsody in Blue", with George Gershwin on piano - the instrument still comes through well, nice space around it ...
If you're interested in music of that era, my college's radio station has one of the longest running music programs in the U.S. -- "The Big Broadcast" -- every Sunday evening. The host, Rich Conaty, has an encyclopedic knowledge of the band leaders, and players, venues. The program streams on WFUV Radio | NY's Music Discovery
Re Gershwin -- he did produce piano player "rolls" and some of these have been transcribed to digital media. Some of these were also transcribed in the pre-digital (i.e. vinyl) era.
Jack
I jut got !964 pressing of ......
"The Miracles - Greatest Hits ( From The Beginning)"
This is a two record set .
And......I got the MONO version!
The same album was eventually released in "stereo" so, I was lucky to get this. 🙂
It is in excellent shape with just a couple of minor surface scratches and after thorough cleaning,.... it sounds great in glorious mono as it was recorded.
I would rate it as a VG++
The cover however has seem much better days and is on life support with plenty of Scotch tape 😉
"Smokey" and the Miracles was one of my favorite groups pre the "British invasion" and the last time I heard most of theses songs was on worn 45s played on a cheap record players with a ceramic cartridge.
It's nice to hear them on a modern, relatively high end sys..
They are all classics from the very early days of Motown.
"The Miracles - Greatest Hits ( From The Beginning)"
This is a two record set .
And......I got the MONO version!
The same album was eventually released in "stereo" so, I was lucky to get this. 🙂
It is in excellent shape with just a couple of minor surface scratches and after thorough cleaning,.... it sounds great in glorious mono as it was recorded.
I would rate it as a VG++
The cover however has seem much better days and is on life support with plenty of Scotch tape 😉
"Smokey" and the Miracles was one of my favorite groups pre the "British invasion" and the last time I heard most of theses songs was on worn 45s played on a cheap record players with a ceramic cartridge.
It's nice to hear them on a modern, relatively high end sys..
They are all classics from the very early days of Motown.
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Thanks for that, Jack - I remember as a youngie, living in a NSW country town, we had a very old relative with us and he would spend hours glued to the battered valve radio, listening to all the "old time dance" programs, etc ... can still hear it, 🙂 ...
"so this is what Camilla did before she met Charles."
Comment from Plastic Bertrand's song/video
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Im listening to wonderful 80s music 🙂
[color=1]http://wms-rly.181.fm/181-awesome80s[/color] (64k WMA - Sounds quite good)
Current song: Lets Groove - Earth wind and fire
[color=1]http://wms-rly.181.fm/181-awesome80s[/color] (64k WMA - Sounds quite good)
Current song: Lets Groove - Earth wind and fire
Doing this one again, http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/music/6958-now-playing-what-you-listening-451.html#post3828752, Iggy Pop in full flight, with the latest compression techniques guaranteeing that 1/3 volume is LOUD - on the PC.
Tried this, because I just mentioned using very stressful material for checking out the state of a system, in another thread. This is almost ideal because the sound is very clean, the drums and vocals are recorded nice and straight - but the whole mix is compressed to buggery, very professionally. Any limp wristed setup will 'disintegrate' if the volume is pushed, making for a good stress test ...
Tried this, because I just mentioned using very stressful material for checking out the state of a system, in another thread. This is almost ideal because the sound is very clean, the drums and vocals are recorded nice and straight - but the whole mix is compressed to buggery, very professionally. Any limp wristed setup will 'disintegrate' if the volume is pushed, making for a good stress test ...
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