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DINAH KAYE the blues are brewin
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- čas přidán 27. 07. 2022
- This is a 1949 UK Parlophone disc of "The Blues are Brewin'" from the film 'New Orleans'. Harry Parry's Radio Sextet, with vocal by Dinah Kaye. The sound is fuzzy even though I have a phono preamplifier dedicated to 78 rpm discs. It's just that EMI was rather tired and stretched after WWII; it took them some time to get back into their stride.
Billy Holiday might have stolen her fire somewhat on this track - particularly when teaming up with Satchmo to do this track in Hollywood..
Happy to see you back to posting again Norman - the radio-silence over lockdown had us worried - so glad your back! 👍
Surface noise on 78 rpm records is a matter of fact. I have no objection to it, in fact, I miss it when it is not present! Thanks for the post Norman.
Thanks for writing. You're absolutely right, that we, who are used to listening to 78s, get tricked if we hear, say, an original master pressed in vinyl. Usually the surface is dead silent - so it sounds like there's no top end on it, though there is... 8^)
I know that no one uses this term any more, but Dinah Kaye is so hep!
Such great audio quality. I’m glad people have decided to keep the surface noise in. Every time they’ve tried to filter it out, the content audio quality tends to suffer as well.
All I did with 78's was hiss reduction and click removal, as trying to get all out was near to impossible, and still have audio that was bright, and not muddy. A 70Hz high pass though did help with a lot of the rumble.
@@SeanBZA I agree that relatively inexpensive software is quite good at removing crackle/small clicks. Though, it does need to be advanced enough to 'look ahead', to see what's coming. After all a small click near the beginning of a 10" (25cm) 78 will be much louder and of shorter duration, than a similar one near the end of the disc; for then, the groove velocity may be only 40% of what it was at the start. Thus, the click will be of less amplitude, but of more duration... Life is never as simple as we would like? 😊All the best, Norman.
@@SeanBZA either way, you do a wonderful job! It’s great hearing this music, knowing that it’s preserved, and the fact that there’s still a fan base. Otherwise no one would hear it due to the fact, I’m assuming, it hasn’t been officially released on later formats. Thanks for making the world more enjoyable.
Hi Norman - thanks for posting this - enjoyed it! Have just played a Harry Parry 78 myself this evening - "Bach Bitin'" on R3021. Also enjoyed your recent cylinder related video - just got round to watching it. All the best. Matt (Stockton on Tees).
Dinah Kaye was a fine vocalist and of course at the time the Benny Goodman of the UK born in Wales. He always had a good unit and at one point George Shearing played for the group. By the way, a nice transfer.
Thanks for appreciative comments. Hope your band is doing well - took in a couple of samples from youtube - definitely a young, capable & enthusiastic bunch of guys you have there! Wishing you all good fortune. Cheers, Norman.
@@bixanorak Thanks Norman. With this Covid carry on, we are just having some fun hiking and busking, but looking forward to being back with the full band at Ned Kelly's Last Stand. Enjoying your posts, that Winner side with the Kazoos is excellent.
Recorded the year I was born.
Lovely (and a very nice transfer indeed). Thank you Norman - I have overlooked Dinah Kaye! Her singing is both immaculate and soulful.
Thanks, BCN. There's not much about her on line, though there is slightly more than there used to be... e.g. Kaye is a stage name - check it out. I'll do some more looking around too. All the best for now, Norman.
Nice one Norman and interesting comments attached. In that connection, perhaps one day soon, in your "Professor Field" guise, you could give us a lecture on EQ for 78s and recording / digitising of acoustic and electric 78s. I for one, would love your advice and comments!
I had a web-page on that once... but can't find it now! Grrh. But I'm sure you're rght - a series of 5 or 6 short videos called something like 'How do we play old 78s' - or 'How _should_ we play old 78s' may well prove interesting= though there are probably many of those already. I'll take a look! In the mentime, take care & best wishes to you & yours. Cheers, Norman.
This singer had a great voice…..Harry Parry always had a great choice and she certainly ticks all the right musical boxes….shame in that era the publicity was poor to say the least.
Yes - thanks for writing. There is more about her on Google than I had realised, not having looked there for some years. You will surely find it interesting - her real name &c! We really deserved more recordings than she left behind. Cheers, Norman.
Excellent re-recording of this 78-er. The hiss & crackle is not disturbing at all.
Are you using the "aged" Cool-edit-pro to digitalise. I do and I'm always wondering what's to discover on an old shellac-disc.
Hi and thanks for writing. I've heard of Cool Edit, but alas don't know anything about it - Iwill check it out. The disc was played on an old KAM direct drive turntable, but I can't remember whether with an SC35 / .0028 TE by Expert, or a Stanton 500 / .0035 TE by Stanton. Most likely the Shure, as there wasn't much top on the record. The home-brew mono pre-amp has ECC83 & ECC82 valves and the PSU for it was made from a junk-box 200-0-200 tranny & a 6X5. 😉. There is a fixed RIAA bass lift (which generally suits Western Electric and Blumlein recordings) and a 6-position switch which, if needed, will roll off the flat top end - some WE sides are quite peaky. There's a 750 pF three-turn variable capacitor in parallel with the fixed caps for fine adjustment. True, I don't often use it, but it's fun having a variable cap in an audio amplifier! 😊 The output from the pre-amp goes into an Ikey-Audio RM3 digital recorder. Essentially, good copy is simple recorded 'as is' - if needed, can decrackle with Izotope, but as for anything else, my little house is a 'De-Noising Free Zone'! Take care and good luck with 78s!
You were 12 or 13 after 1949? I thought you were older, maybe born in the late 20s or early 30s.