Andrews Sisters recording V Disc - 4 Prestos

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Andrews Sisters recording V Disc - 4 Prestos

Post: # 35155Unread post Techie
Wed May 20, 2015 11:57 pm

Stumbles on this video. The Andrews Sisters recording Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy for a V Disc. The end of the video shows cutting room with 4 Presto lathes. It looks like they're cutting 16" at 33 1/3. I always assumed they would have run at 78rpm in that era.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyR97d9hi84

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Re: Andrews Sisters recording V Disc - 4 Prestos

Post: # 36707Unread post W.B.
Fri Aug 14, 2015 11:48 am

By the time of that Andrews Sisters' session, some recording companies - namely Columbia but, as of 1947 when Bing Crosby cut his second version of "White Christmas," Decca - recorded individual tracks simultaneously on 16" 33⅓ RPM reference acetates (vertical-cut, I.I.N.M.) as well as two 78 RPM lacquers for sending to the pressing plants. This would be a boon to Columbia at the point they introduced the LP record in 1948, in the years before the Ampex 200 magnetic tape recorder first appeared in recording studios in 1948-49.

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