[Dixielandjazz] Rounder CDs - Morton/LoC

[Anton Crouch]

Hello Mike

My Rounder CD 1893 (CD 5 in Box 1888) also truncates Part 6 of "The 
murder ballad".

Why do record producers fiddle like this? In this case, it's utterly 
trivial and could not possibly have any effect on marketability. It 
certainly isn't an example of scholarship in action.

I like to hear the run-in and run-out surface noise  :-)

DJMLers might like to give their own examples of editing of 78 rpm 
re-issues.

My favourite (if that's the right word) is the 1997 Retrieval CD RTR 
79012 - Tommy Dorsey and his Clambake Seven. Track 17 is given as "If 
the man in the moon" and a note says "The vocal chorus has been omitted 
from matrix 013525-1 for reasons of taste".

Not only has Jack Leonard's vocal been removed but the producers 
couldn't even bring themselfs to print the full title of the piece - "If 
the man in the moon was a coon".

All the best,
Anton