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Record Making With Duke Ellington (1937)

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This promotional short for Irving Mills' short-lived Master and Variety labels not only gives us a glimpse of Ellington and his band in the actual Master/Variety studios (as opposed to a soundstage set), but is one of the very few film accounts of how records were recorded, plated and pressed in the long-ago age of analog, shellac and 78 rpm. Narration is provided by pioneer radio announcer Alois Havrilla.

Channel: Howto & Style
Uploaded: November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am
Author: WhenSwingWasKing

Length: 05:05
Rating: 4.86
Views: 85221

Tags: Duke  Ellington  jazz  recording  swing  

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ToddCMorgan (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Then why do many '50's recordings sound cleaner than '60's recordings?
formiga1950 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Beautifull movie. I would like to know HOW they filmed and made the sync at the studio session.
georgiapeachda1 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
so, im going to this place called beautiful time. wanna watch?
druboogie (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Dont be so sure...Cutters got much more accurate in the 50's, but the problem was bad engineers that didnt have elaborate consoles to mix properly. By the 60's all the studios finally got consoles with eq's, and everyones sound came out better.
druboogie (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
This is as far back as stamping goes back was on the 78 shellac. Before that, bands played into the big horn, and before that was the cylinder record which started the whole thing.
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pizzaflixtv (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
this is a great video!
Kirke182 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
There were no tape recorders then so the music when straight from the studio session to the master. Notice they had two masters going simultaneously. Probably in case one got hosed up. And, yeah, dig that crazy mixing console, baby! Amazing they could do all that considering how primitive it was. Thank you very much for posting this. It answered some questions I had about how shellac 78s were made.
EwaldK (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Makes you wonder how they ever cranked a product out of the factory in those days! Perfect video, nice to see what a studio looked like in those days. Those mixing desks were really compact back then ;)
annahot18 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
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