Those Prima CD's sound worse than good-condition 78's. They couldn't
have had access to metal parts unless they had the World's Worst
Engineer putting it together.
There's all kinds of strange junk floating around with the 78-era pop
and jazz, probably the same with classical but I don't pay much
attention. Because of all the different copyright laws around the world,
and because of Amazon and eBay, stuff washes up on these shores that is
really junky but perfectly legal in the country of origin, a lot of
stuff compiled of what sound like cassette tapes of 78's that were worn
out before the compact disc was a twinkle in the eye of an engineer,
played with a rusty nail through a digereedoo (sp?) instead of a tin
horn. Some of this junk comes out of Asia, especially Korea and Taiwan
and some of it comes out of the darker corners of Europe. In most cases,
you'd actually do better as far as sound quality tracking down a worn
out copy of the US-issued 78's in a Salvation Army store.
-- Tom Fine
----- Original Message ----- From: "David Lennick" <dlennick@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ARSCLIST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, April 04, 2008 11:27 PM
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] One more discography question
Savoy claimed to own everything of Obie's at one point. A highly
dubious claim, I believe, based on his having licensed a few old Crown
sides to them in the 40s. I think whoever last owned the assets of
Pickwick (which at one point belonged to Intersound, who SOLD THEM OFF
JUST BEFORE I STARTED PRODUCING REISSUES FOR THEM, the idiots) has a
more valid claim. Who was putting out those ghastly Simitar CDs of
Louis Prima a few years ago?
dl
Dave Weiner wrote:
A related question is, who owns what was Majestic nowadays?
-- Tom Fine
Isn't it Savoy? They at least issued the Majestic Mildred Baileys on CD.
Dave W.