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Jerry

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Oct 9, 2012, 11:43:07 AM10/9/12
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Having derived much pleasure from re-reading Culshaw's
two books, "Ring Resounding" (1967) and "Putting the
Record Straight" (1981), are there any recommendations for
more recent books on this general topic.

Jerry

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Oct 9, 2012, 12:15:39 PM10/9/12
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Not so much more recent, but just as interesting is Schwarzkopf's memoir of her hubby, Walter Legge, ISBN 1555535194

Curlytop

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Oct 9, 2012, 3:17:25 PM10/9/12
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randy...@gmail.com set the following eddies spiralling through the
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> Not so much more recent, but just as interesting is Schwarzkopf's memoir
> of her hubby, Walter Legge, ISBN 1555535194

Both of these play major roles in "Music Makers on Record", the memoirs of
Suvi Raj Grubb, disciple of Walter Legge and later a major producer for
EMI.

Hamish Hamilton, London. ISBN 0-241-11872-7.
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Jerry

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Oct 9, 2012, 3:56:50 PM10/9/12
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Thanks for both suggestions thus far.

Much appreciated.

Jerry

Precious Roy

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Oct 12, 2012, 1:13:02 PM10/12/12
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I haven't read the book by Andrew Kazdin, Glenn Gould's producer, but it's called "Glenn Gould at Work: Creative Lying."

There is another Walter Legge book besides "On & Off" -- it's called "Walter Legge: Words & Music." I didn't like it very much. It's a collection of odds and ends, full of (his) glowing tributes to various EMI recording artists, but it is short on recording-studio stuff.

This genre fascinates me. I too would welcome more suggestions.

Matthew B. Tepper (Supernews)

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Oct 13, 2012, 3:08:19 PM10/13/12
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Jerry <gpge...@aol.com> appears to have caused the following letters to be
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> Having derived much pleasure from re-reading Culshaw's two books, "Ring
> Resounding" (1967) and "Putting the Record Straight" (1981), are there any
> recommendations for more recent books on this general topic.

Try Gary Marmorstein's The Label: The Story of Columbia Records. Not
entirely reliable when it comes to the classical end of things, but allowing
for that there's more and more interesting stuff than you're likely to
encounter. And it's more accurate than Lebrecht, at least, although I know
that's not exactly a ringing endorsement.

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oldeastsider

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Oct 18, 2012, 3:04:29 PM10/18/12
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I would recommend the following:

The Fabulous Phonograph - From Edison to Stereo by Roland Gelatt

From Tin Foil to STEREO - Evolution of the Phonograph by Oliver Read &
Walter L. Welch

A Matter of Records - Fred Gaisberg & The Golden Era of the Gramophone
by Jerrold Northrop Moore

Joe Batten's Book - The Story of Sound Recording by Joe Batten

The Music Goes Round by F.W. Gaisberg

The Other Side of the Record by Charles O'Connell

All are out of print, but well worth tracking down.

PAUL
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