A few new You Tube videos on my channel

[Swing Band Heaven]

Here are a few new videos I have just added to my channel. The first one of a 1928 recording by Fred Elizalde and his band playing "Stomp your feet". The second is Carroll Gibbons and his Savoy Hotel Orpheans from 1938 playing the Irving Berlin composition "Change Partners".


[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksmiEN_bJcI[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LY8ukGns04[/youtube]

[Wolfe]

That Fred Elizalde is a super tune! I'd never heard this group before.

Thanks for sharing.

[syncopeter]

Stomp your feet is a true classic of the Elizalde band. Nice copy and fine restoration. I had some Elizalde piano solos on that early Brunswick label and they were quite fiddly to get a good transfer on minidisc. No possibility of harddisk recording back then, let alone digital restoration. I prefer a little hiss and/or surface noise to something that is completely quiet but dead as a doornail as well.

[Swing Band Heaven]

Yes, the Elizalde disk is in supurb condition and I was lucky to find this one. The thing I like about these early UK Brunswicks (from the 100 series) is that they play as smooth as silk and even though they are not laminated disks they are made of very high quality shallac. This transfer used no declick or decrackle what so ever and even thought the high frequencies have been boosted alot it still sounds very smooth.

S-B-H

[Wolfe]

The thing I like about these early UK Brunswicks (from the 100 series) is that they play as smooth as silk and even though they are not laminated disks they are made of very high quality shallac. This transfer used no declick or decrackle what so ever and even thought the high frequencies have been boosted alot it still sounds very smooth.

I expect U.S. Brunswicks of the same period to be good too. I don't know if the shellac is quite of the same smoothness, some may be noisier, though it's generally pretty good, and the recording quality is excellent. I think they had graduated over to Western Electric by that point, leaving the highly inconsistent 'Light Ray' method behind, once and for all.