The Talking Machine Forum — For All Antique Phonographs & Recordings

(J.M.J.)
Wonder what people of color listening to Paramount 78s Blues in the late 1920s thought of the sound? Especially the Paramount surface noise because of too much filler in the dough substance used with the shellac.
No record of Blind Blake's death has ever been found yet. He would most likely be in his late 90s if still alive, not sure, as there has never been found any birth certificate either of Arthur Blake/ or Arthur Phelps which may have been his real name/.
Nobody really knows where Blind Blake came from or where he went, and he only recorded for Paramount.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N72kWgKDfgg

jnorman111 wrote:(J.M.J.)
Wonder what people of color listening to Paramount 78s Blues in the late 1920s thought of the sound? Especially the Paramount surface noise because of too much filler in the dough substance used with the shellac.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N72kWgKDfgg

Paramount used sand as a filler agent. Which made a noisy record, and one which was easily worn down on mechanical phonographs of the day. It's a real pity that so many of the blues artists that we admire today (Patton, James, Blind Lemon, etc.) have to be heard via those crummy records.

But we'll take them anyway, of course.