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.

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well, it would be ... ( 8 months ago by ToastmachineIdiot)

well, it would be quite a bit of pressure on the musicians

Nice! I'm a young ... ( 8 months ago by ToastmachineIdiot)

Nice! I'm a young aspiring recording engineer with a jazz influence, and man that was sweet! Long Live The DUKE!

wow. they did all ... ( 8 months ago by livebabylive15)

wow. they did all that by hand. for the past 40 - 50 years they have all been mass produced by machines.

They still make new ... ( 7 months ago by PearlJammer07)

They still make new LP's. Mostly I see older releases being re-issued on 180 grahm vinyl and Virgin Vinyl. I'm glad they are still making LP's. They just have a much warmer sound than digitally processed music.

I'm curious - what ... ( 7 months ago by frow9405)

I'm curious - what did they do with the stampers when they were done with them? Discard them? I am wondering how valuable those would be!

Agree. But by the ... ( 7 months ago by musicom67)

Agree. But by the time 45s came around, the recordings were mastered on tape instead of the lacquer discs (by 1948)....

This was during the ... ( 7 months ago by fromthesidelines)

This was during the period {March-June 1937} when Duke and his band recorded "exclusively" for Irving Mills' Master and Variety labels, although they were also issued on Brunswick [Ellington's label until 1939] at the same time. Incidentally, "Oh, Babe!" was NEVER recorded on Variety- it was actually recorded for Brunswick in February 1936. Ivie Anderson was Duke's "star vocalist" from 1932 through 1942....

Array ( 7 months ago by manuelvis10)

jazz forever
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If theres anything ... ( 7 months ago by RadioKilla07)

If theres anything that makes your listening pleasure worth while, its recording live onto the laquer. In this clip, the cutter heads of that time period didnt sound near as great as cutterheads in the 60's to this present day, just like anything as time went on, technology got better. LP's are still heavily manufactured today and is still considered the best form of medium when it comes to accuracy in sound playback reproduction.

That vid was helful ... ( 6 months ago by JusBeCuzz)

That vid was helful, sincerely.

Magnetic tape ... ( 6 months ago by jaworskij)

Magnetic tape didn't exist until WWII...The Germans invented it, and Bing Crosby and AMPEX perfected it.

Wow Ivie Anderson! ( 6 months ago by guitaress1)

Wow Ivie Anderson!

What a gem of a ... ( 4 months ago by saxdude251)

What a gem of a film!

Thank you for ... ( 4 months ago by tb40ford)

Thank you for posting this video. Awesome I have a great interest in this type of music.

Thats awesome, ... ( 4 months ago by shanath18)

Thats awesome, those were the days.

yes they do, they ... ( 4 months ago by livebabylive15)

yes they do, they never stopped making them. in 2003 records had 7% of the sale market so more records are being made today. Mainly bands of today like Linkin Park, Bright Eyes, Radiohead n all thoses people release on record. just go to ebay and type in "New LP".

unbelievable, every ... ( 4 months ago by bluesdance)

unbelievable, every aspect of this is unbelievable. I actually have a few 78s in my house of Bunny Berigan. it's crazy to think that so many people were physically involved in the production of records. i think that's really the main point of this clip to a modern day audience, just all those hands doing all that stuff.

Boy, would I love ... ( 3 months ago by rossenpomakov)

Boy, would I love to get my hands on that duke ellington record!
Just an amazing technology. Every time I watch one of my videos of vinyl records, I am amazed how the whole system works. Great video!

great vid! ( 3 months ago by fredomeireles)

great vid!

That's very ... ( 3 months ago by peugteobike)

That's very intersting.chek out how it made rcords.that's about how they make 33 rpm records.

Wonderful video! ... ( 2 months ago by CalebHC)

Wonderful video! Thank you for posting this.

Fine example of ... ( 2 months ago by lin2k4)

Fine example of magnificent human achievement

Facinating ... ( 2 months ago by cowboymachito)

Facinating information. Thanks for posting :-)

Very interesting, ... ( 2 weeks ago by CoolDudeClem)

Very interesting, it seems as if the the record maufacturing process hasn't changed much between then and now. How far does record "stamping" go back? I heard that it goes back to the days of acoustic recording. Does anyone know if that's true?

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