[Dixielandjazz] Recording Low Tones

[Russ Guarino]

I read sometime, someplace that the early singers were Tenors but they did
not record well.  Baritones worked and along came Bing who was a Baritone.
The only Tenor I can remember was Dennis O'Day on the Arthur Godfrey radio
show.

Russ Guarino

Ron L'Herault wrote:

> It is also a matter of dynamics.   Early vocalists, often stage
> performers would have sung without amplification.  They sang loudly and
> enunciated clearly.  Bing may not have had sufficient power and/or
> clarity to be effective as an acoustical recording artist.
>
> Ron L
>
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> [mailto:dixielandjazz-bounces at ml.islandnet.com] On Behalf Of Stephen
> Barbone
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>
> Interesting about not being able to record lower vibrations as in
> Beebe's post. I was in a discussion with a recording maven the other day
> and he said that had Bing Crosby been born a generation earlier, they
> never would have been able to record him properly and perhaps he would
> never have been "relatively" famous.
>
> I didn't fully understand the physics, but apparently the early
> recording equipment could only properly record higher pitched voices,
> not crooners. And that Crosby and improved  recording equipment came
> along together at the right time for him.
>
> Cheers,
> Steve Barbone
>
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