[Dixielandjazz] "Editing" records for re-issue

[John Farrell]

Another thing which annoys me intensely is the "stereofication" of early
mono recordings, where some bright spark has directed all the low
frequencies to one speaker and the high frequencies to the other. What a
horrible sound - I quickly gave away all my affected elpees to a charity
shop.

John Farrell
http://homepages.tesco.net/~stridepiano/midifiles.htm

----- Original Message -----
From: "Anton Crouch" <a.crouch at unsw.edu.au>
To: "DJML" <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 2:38 AM
Subject: [Dixielandjazz] "Editing" records for re-issue


>
> Hello all
>
> I strongly agree with the views of John Farrell and Bill Haesler on the
> "editing" of 78s for re-issue. The sad part is that the people who do this
> almost certainly think that they are "improving" the music.
>
> It's not a new phenomenon - who remembers those early LPs from US Columbia
> with the vocals by people like Irving Kauffman edited out of hot
> performances by the likes of Red Nichols? That was done to spare us the
> "corn", but in doing so the do-gooders also often removed some nice
> background obligato work.
>
> Far worse is the straight-forward censorship that sometimes occurs. A
> recent example is Retrieval 79012 (Tommy Dorsey & his Clambake 7). In the
> notes to this CD we are told that "the vocal chorus has been omitted from
> matrix 013525-1 for reasons of taste". Reasons of taste? The item is "If
> the man in the moon was a coon" and the producers have been so politically
> correct that they have not only removed the vocal but also the words "was
a
> coon" from the track listing. This contrasts with the approach of
companies
> like, for example, Archeophone which give us the material straight and
> explain the social and historical importance of so doing.
>
> All the best
> Anton
>
>
>
>
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