La de Dah, Oh Boy
Every now and then I think about unsubscribing from the West Coast jazz mailing list.
There are only so many Stan Kenton airshots I can bear to read about, and the old buggers
seem disinclined to listen to any new stuff, but now and again a gem is posted : -
> I recall a piece in the L.A. Times when the film was released in which
> the efforts and agonies involved in getting a complete take of
> Pfeiffer singing "Makin' Whoopee"
> were described. Apparently every trick and device known to man were
> needed to get a finished performance, including multiple splices and
> hours of editing and re-recording.
>
> I shudder to think what might have been necessary to record a CD with
> her. And I suspect that is precisely the reason no recording company
> dared try it in order to cash in on the stir she caused with that
> onetime vocal shot.
>
> Jack Tracy
Reading these anecdotes made me break out in an oily cold sweat :)
I recall a session I was sentenced to do with a so called -"name"
singer who's name you'd recognize if I mentioned it.
We had two 24 track recorders mag linked together ..the first one contained the 22 tracks of finished backing tracks and group vocals.
the other machine was solely devoted to getting lead vocal takes ( sometimes line by line ) that were then compiled and bounced down to a so called "master vocal take " ..some times we had to scrub earlier takes to get room for more stanzas (..again, line by line ..sometimes taking individual syllables that were marginally usable )
Once we had finally completed a so called "master vocal take" ...
....then we started in with the "pitch correction" toy ...
There are only so many Stan Kenton airshots I can bear to read about, and the old buggers
seem disinclined to listen to any new stuff, but now and again a gem is posted : -
> I recall a piece in the L.A. Times when the film was released in which
> the efforts and agonies involved in getting a complete take of
> Pfeiffer singing "Makin' Whoopee"
> were described. Apparently every trick and device known to man were
> needed to get a finished performance, including multiple splices and
> hours of editing and re-recording.
>
> I shudder to think what might have been necessary to record a CD with
> her. And I suspect that is precisely the reason no recording company
> dared try it in order to cash in on the stir she caused with that
> onetime vocal shot.
>
> Jack Tracy
Reading these anecdotes made me break out in an oily cold sweat :)
I recall a session I was sentenced to do with a so called -"name"
singer who's name you'd recognize if I mentioned it.
We had two 24 track recorders mag linked together ..the first one contained the 22 tracks of finished backing tracks and group vocals.
the other machine was solely devoted to getting lead vocal takes ( sometimes line by line ) that were then compiled and bounced down to a so called "master vocal take " ..some times we had to scrub earlier takes to get room for more stanzas (..again, line by line ..sometimes taking individual syllables that were marginally usable )
Once we had finally completed a so called "master vocal take" ...
....then we started in with the "pitch correction" toy ...