This 78 was sitting there, and I said, "I ought to rip and post this." I'd been planning to for years and never did, and there's nothing like the present. Unless it's another gaudy sweater no sane person would wear past December 25.
Very cool sides here, and the two on-line rips I heard are dreadful, so hopefully I've done my good sound-restoration deed for the day. Please, people, stop turning perfectly good-sounding 78s into mush. When filtering, less is more, or whatever the expression is. If you want your 78s to "sound like" LPs, buy LPs and pretend they're 78s. You'll get a vinyl-era noise floor and you won't have to spring for a 78 stylus.
To the music. Carioca is by Vincent (Tea for Two) Youmans, in case you didn't know.
Click here to hear: Carioca-Rumba (1934)
Raftero--Nat Finston and the Paramount Studio Orch,, piano: Ralph Rainger, 1934.
Carioca-Rumba (Youmans)--RKO Studio Orch., Direction of Max Steiner, 1934.
Lee
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Max Steiner, Academy Award winning musical director at RKO and composer of KING KONG, GONE WITH THE WIND and a few other things.
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Is this the same song, Lee?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yk0E119h5Zo
I do have the 78 and it was a favorite of my Grandfather (Nono) but I don't have the equipment or inclination to post it as you do...you are an amazing chronicler of music whom I have respected for some time....
Thanks for the nice words. No, that's a completely different tune.
Never heard of Carlo Buti before. Very nice recording.
Carlo Buti was one of Mario Lanza'a influences. Somewhere in my collection I have a 78 of Carlo Buti singing the anthem that, according to my father, was Mussolini's anthem.
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