What a difference a better pressing makes!

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What a difference a better pressing makes!

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For some years I've had this performance on a rather poor-condition original OKeh pressing, which I bought from Rick Whiting at a Union show for all of $2. I would grade it as V- or even G (one of my worst condition records). I transferred it and derived some pleasure from it.

At the recent Bixfest in Racine, WI, I picked up a very nice Odeon pressing of the same matrix (not laminated, but sounding quite good).

Here are transfers of both pressings, for you to judge! ;)

The Man From the South
Joe Venuti’s Blue Four (Joe Venuti, vn/Don Murray, bar/Rube Bloom, p, v/Eddie Lang, g)

Okeh 41076
http://www.box.net/shared/ztkbbevv5s

Odeon A 286 011
http://www.box.net/shared/k6opokiuz9

(And, by the way, I've learned that Rube Bloom pronounced his first name as "Ruby", believe it or not; I still have trouble remembering that).
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Re: What a difference a better pressing makes!

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In re: Rube = Ruby. Just saw "Guys and Dolls" on TCM last night. The character name Big Jule (so spelled in cast list) is pronounced "Big Julie." Cf. songwriter Jule Styne.

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