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Old 02-09-2016, 06:52 PM
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I just wish Caruso had lived a little longer...Even the acoustic recordings we have of him are REMARKABLE. Too bad he only lived to be 48, passing in 1921.
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Caruso would have been around a few years or more if it weren't for one thing. He survived surgery for cancer and was recuperating. A country doctor examined the healing wound and it turned out that his hands weren't sterile. He was done in by the resulting infection as antibiotics didn't exist yet.
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The first electrical recording released was Joan Of Arkansas by the Mask And Wig Club of the University Of Pennsylvania, which was recorded on March 16,1925 and issued as Victor No. 19626.
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Many years ago at a gathering of recording fans we sat around and listened to an elderly man who had worked for one of our oldest record stores talk about the night, when as a very young shop assistant, he was told to stay back after the store closed... and promised something special.

It had arrived earlier that day by special delivery to the boss.

It was an electric record.

Well there was a hush as the boss put the record (uncertain now what it was) ...on the turntable of the best Victrola in the shop and played the record.

Apparently it was a revelation... a full orchestra... and to use the old man's words ...sparkling.

The assembled staff were told to sell as much stock as possible as fast as possible before the old recordings were obsolete. (Nothing changes in retailing it seems).

Early electrics were sharper and sometimes rather brittle and sounded less than pleasant on some gramophones.

But everyone recognised this was the future. The ability to record a whole orchestra was new.. the dynamic range was a massive improvement.
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