What is the common thread between the following--
Mitch Miller - Marlene Dietrich - Harold and the Purple Crayon - Harry Breuer - Ruth "The Dinghy Song" Wallis - Charlie Parker (with strings)?
Answer: Conductor/arranger Jimmy Carroll, who seemed to spend his career wavering between the basest commercial recordings and some wildly creative endeavors.
Included in "wildly creative" is today's download Speed the Parting Guest (Hi Fi Bull in a Chime Shop). The album is a binaural recording--usually the wikipedia description is dumbed down enough for me to understand, but I can only figure it's an early form of stereo which you are meant to listen to via headphones. I think.
Anyway, I went to the trouble of saving it as both mono and stereo files, neither sound quite right to me. Then I started doing a little research and discovered you can buy good versions of the recordings online. Well.... crap. Anyway, they're here for you to be enticed by, so you can then buy the better quality recordings online.
Fans of mallet master Harry Breuer will enjoy his performance on "buzzimba" in "Happy Little Woodpile". Side one is complete, it was too hard to try to divide. Plus, the second song on side one is endless variations of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, which irritated me to no end.
Speed the Parting Guest(mono)
Speed the Parting Guest (stereo)
Composed and conducted by Jimmy Carroll. Featuring Harry Breuer, Ed Vito, Carroll Brattman (and possibly Terry Snyder)
Side 1: Speed the Parting Guest
Tinkle Tinkle Little Bell
Side 2
Hong Kong Local
Drummers' Parade
Happy Little Woodpile
4 comments:
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Your summary of binaural is exactly right: stereo for headphones.
As I remember, the Cook records used a different way of mastering their stereo discs. Instead of a "stereo groove," the left and right channels were cut onto separate (mono) tracks on the same side of the disc! You needed a two-headed tone arm to play them. I've never had access to a two-headed player, but I imagine keeping the channels in perfect sync was a nightmare.
Best blog of any kind. Funny! And some really GOOD music. Thanks!
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