Charlie Barnett - Rockin In Rhythm (Ellington) HMV OA051532

Charlie Barnett again and his Arragnment of Duke Ellington's Rockin In Rhythm

Not bad Not bad at all. on the B side there is another Duke number Merry Go Round. Which ill get on here at some point

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Charlie Barnett - Southern Fried

Does Mr Barnett Swing|? Oh yes he does. I was shocked this wasn't a hit for his band as it has all the elements that other band would have had a NO. 1 with this one.

A rather beaten up 78 but with a little love it shines like new again, I used to use this as a theme for one of my swing radio shows 10 years ago!! but then i had rather primitive "Restoration" devices.
I found a rather poor transfer of this on the net also.. paid for by the McGill university. Its a really bad transfer.. the fools don't know what they are doing.. and yet get funding to do this !.. mine i did myself and it cost zilch.. Take a look at what the American Government payed someone to do.. Southern Fried

and then listen to mine who does this for free. (but would like to get the chance to have a job )



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Somthing New - Buddy DeFranco and the Glenn Miller Ork

Here is an LP which took me years to find, I first heard this on Cassette which was a CBS 2 pack with modern "members" type recordings and the 2 tracks from the 30's which CBS had the "rights" for a 1935 recording of "Solo Hop" and some other tune of which I've forgotten about. the other Cassette had this album, which i played to death and spent a few years hunting down this one. It's not rare or anything but it's funny I never came across it. Its a real treat to hear the superb sounds of Buddy DeFranco on his clarinet ripping though the Tijuana songbook of the day. the band plays well and the stereo is fab.

Standard Transfer, Very Minimal "restoration".


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Studies In Swing No. 3 - Nat Gonella - When You're Smiling Parlophone A6462

Studies In Swing No. 3
When Your Smiling (Fisher-Goodwin-Shay)
Nat Gonella
Recorded under the direction of George Scott-Wood
Cecil Norman - Piano
Albert Harris - Guitar
Jock Jacobson - Drums
Dick Escott - Bass

Parlophone - A6462
Matrix No. - CE7489 and CE7474
Australian Pressing on Purple Parlophone Label

Transferred Using a Truncated Eliptical Stylus which was a 2.5 Side 2 was using a 3.3.

Here's A real treat a 78 in REAL stereo ! what you may say ok ok there are some Duke Ellington recordings in stereo from'33 and a few odd's and sod's from other outfits namely the Glenn Miller Film soundtracks which were found to be recorded on 35mm magnetic film and recorded in "sections" so they could be mixed in the standard mono for the film. these were remixed in the 90's in a pretty convincing stereo sound and also used on the Home Video releases.

This is like those Miller tracks, one 78 and 2 versions of the same song, side one has the band plus Nat blowing his horn and side two just has the band minus Nat's solo.
so what i did was to put the two side of the disc into my fav multi track program, do a bit of panning and timing and voila a real stereo song from the late 30's (could be early 40's too)
and the band was pretty tight too, the "backing" track was only half a second longer which i did a bit of "time shifting" to correct.

I also have Swing studies No. 2 with Freddy Gardner playing Japanese Sandman which I'll work on a bit later providing anyone cares.

Transferred and Restored By Adrian Gregg In May 2008 in under 10 mins for Transferring and restoration. the stereo "MIX" took a bit longer! as I do these for love and not for $ I only spent a brief time working the stereo out It could be MUCH better with a little work.

Again we have 3 versions
1 GOOD version (my preferred restoration)
2 TMNR overkill on the cleaning for those who hate surface noise
3 REAL STEREO there are 2 versions of this a straight mix and one with a little reverb on the Trumpet Solo

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V-Disc 832B

Here's Some Swinging Tunes from San Donahue and Chris Griffin (no not the Family Guy One!!)

A word About VDiscs .
They were Vinyl 12 Inch 78 course groove (like a 78) with about 5 and a half Min's playing time on each side.
as you could imagine they were made to send to the troops where ever they were, and so were played with steel needles and the like making a lot of them unplayable today. not only that the army destroyed 90% after the war fearing that the records would get out into the public. and with no real copyright on them that was a big scare for the armed forces.
most of them i have play pretty badly they sound like a lp that had been played about 20000 times and then run over with a steamroller, buried in soft peat for a year, and then had a clean with some sandpaper!!!..
But some interesting item appear on them as a whole. ok a lot were the Commercial 78 re-pressed on VDisc but a lot of the material was taken from Air-checks and the like.
so here is one side of a Vdisc. Check out the cool sounds of Chris Griffin years before Miles Davis and boppin with ease. or the swingariffic arrangement of Cocktails For Two.

There is some surface noise and clicks still present but taking them out would have taken a while and Automated would have Ruined the "sound"

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Tommy Dorsey - Blue Moon

Wow this one is HOT !!
Tommy's band is in excellent form on this Arrangement.. and how i love the "call and response" style
Think of Marie and you'll get it. the band "sings" their response out and yes they are all song titles. how cool.
again Ive not found this on cd at all. although i did hear someones "job" of cleaning it up on another blog and yep it sounded like you had your head in a bucket of warm custard while the disc was being played in another room!!

Enjoy.. again 3 versions 2 different restorations and a fake Stereo one

sorry no Scan with this one.. as the discs is in storage and I'm cleaning 100 odd gigs of transfers some don't have "photo's" Of the Labels. OH it was on a Aussie HMV disc!

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George Trevare - Jungle Jive

Here's A Real Rarity an Australian big band of the 40's and my how they Swing!!

of course if you listen closly to the Arrangement George is quoting many of the popular tunes of the day. Can you pick any out?

Recorded on the Zegal Zonophone Label, I'd say this is mid to late 40's by the sound of the band and the "sound" of the recording.

Again 3 versions one "best" and One with "too much NR" and a dodgy "fake Stereo" one!

I have a few more George Trevare discs to up as well as his "Sothern Cross Seven" Combo
Enjoy


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78-RPM Tex Beneke - Swing Low

Now before I start getting technical about this and other 78 restorations let me tell you a bit about why I'd even attempt to do this.
Im a big fan of the Big Bands to the point I've spent more than 10 years presenting "Swing Type" Radio shows showcasing top swing bands of the day (and today!) playing arrangements that are SOLID! not the same old same old "In the mood" "Sing Sing Sing" stuff oh no sir, in over 1000+ shows I've not trotted out the old "standards" but played top arrangements that you may have never heard. In doing this I would pull out old LP's and Buy loads of CD's, Now i used to get VERY VERY annoyed when I'd hear a 78 that had A LOT of "Work" on it. to the point that all the "Top End" was gone. OK it takes most of the "scratchyness" away yes i agree, but it also kills the music FULL STOP. Now when i was a lad and played 78's quite a bit, If some mad scientist offered me a device that would take away 10 say 20 percent of the surface noise I'd have paid the earth!!.. so now 20 years later why do people think that if its not "clinical clean" Its not a good job?!?!? Well let me tell you as a Audio engineer AND a Muso that almost 70% of my 1000's of CD's are pretty much Junk to my ears. OK Ok you might think I'm mad at this point but when i hear a Sax section sound like it's underwater you might know what i mean. so i spent a few good years recerching how would be the best way to play and clean these 78's for my radio shows. after reading 40 years (1939-1980) of back issues of "Radio and Hobbies" I had a far idea on the technical aspects of the era that made the discs then i spend a few years perfecting the true Pre-Amp that would play me back ALL the sounds on disc. then i got myself a set of Truncated Elliptical Needles ( yes how quaint I call em Needles) But now i could Transfer the discs fine i needed the software to Master them. Well having a good play with the software over 10 or so years I have used it all. and it's all pretty Dire if you need to clean Properly. so I wrote some software myself, made me a few plug-ins and used a few existing ones and voila the Full Frequency range on the 78's to YOU without the Great treble Cut type of restoration usually heard.
But that's not all.. Ive made 3 Versions of each track

Version One - What I'd consider a good clean up job for my ears without the Noise Reduction effecting any instruments
Version Two - Which I call TMNR which stands for Too Much Noise Reduction, The kind of clean up job that I hate. but I also understand people will only listen to "CLEAN" 78's so its for them
Version 3 - A fake stereo Effect, Listen to this with your Can's on. Ive found a plug-in which can separate Certain frequency's for example in some swing type tracks the Trom section can APPEAR to be in the left hand side etc etc.. Again i don't like this kind of thing but hey, someone might!



Ok and on with the Track. Its Tex beneke's 1946 band with an old standard that the Army Airforce Band would play (and having Jerry Grey's Arrangements under contract with the Miller Estate) Tex would knock out loads of these tracks, as most people had never really heard Millers AAF outfit.
It's never appeared on CD and the disc i transferred this from is standard (sound wise) from 46, Ive got 3 pressing of this and they all have the Distorted sax part an the start!!

and how long does it take me to knock out these 78's Restorations? About 10 seconds of computer work each. The only time it takes is to Play each Disc Down the line!!

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