Re: [ARSCLIST] question about remote recordings from the 20-30s

[Tom Fine <tflists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Matthew:

Whacky-Packia strikes again. Thanks for being a lone voice in the dark stating some truths.

-- Tom Fine

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From: "Matthew Barton" <mbarton@xxxxxxx>
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Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2008 3:21 PM
Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] question about remote recordings from the 20-30s


Several mistakes in just a couple of sentences, but you've got to be careful with Wikipedia.

John and Alan Lomax did record Leadbelly in the summer of 1933 on a 300lb+ machine, but it embossed 
grooves on aluminum discs. They didn't get an acetate disc recorder until 1937. These recordings do 
not reside at "Smithsonian Folkways," but at the Library of Congress. The "recorder (and trunk)" 
never resided at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The original disk recorder is long gone, as is the 
Lomaxes' Ford. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame had on display, for a time, Alan's Magnecord tape 
recorder, which he used in Europe in the 1950s.

Matthew Barton
MBRS
The Library of Congress
101 Independence Ave., SE
Washington, DC 20540-4696
202-707-5508
email: mbarton@xxxxxxx

> > > "Watsky, Lance" <lwatsky@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 4/29/2008 3:05:16 PM >>>
Hi Sam,

The following is from the Wikipedia info on John Lomax:

In July 1933, he and his son Alan, recorded Huddie Ledbetter, aka Lead Belly, using a 315-pound 
acetate phonograph disk recorder which was installed in the trunk of their Ford sedan.

The recordings now reside at the Smithsonian Folkways, and the phonograph recorder (and trunk) are 
at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum.

Good luck on your research.

Lance

Lance Watsky
University of California, Los Angeles
Moving Image Archive Studies
Program Coordinator
103-G East Melnitz Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1622
lwatsky@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Ph: 310-206-4966
Fx: 310-825-3383


-----Original Message-----
From: Association for Recorded Sound Discussion List [mailto:ARSCLIST@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of sam 
briger
Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2008 11:30 AM
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Subject: [ARSCLIST] question about remote recordings from the 20-30s

Hi-
I was recommended to this list by someone at the American Folikfe Center.
I am doing some research on how remote recordings were done by commercial record companies in the 
20s and 30s. Specifically, I am interested in how record companies went about making recordings of 
musicians in southern rural areas in that time period. I heard that companies like Columbia, Victor 
and Okeh would do remote recordings.

If there is any book that someone would direct me to or if someone who is knowledgeable about this 
subject would be willing to answer some of my questions, I would appreciate it greatly.

Thank you very much,
Sam
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