| re: Jay Records "Complete" Recordings | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 10:28 pm EDT 06/14/20 | |
| In reply to: re: Jay Records "Complete" Recordings - BroadwayTonyJ 09:35 pm EDT 06/14/20 | |
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| When I've brought up things that were missing on the two recordings I mention in my reply to the OP, John Yap has not said that they were left out because they would have been boring. He insisted that they recorded everything they received. Given that JAY recordings that say they're complete generally do include those boring bits (and often not tracked separately, which would make skipping them easier), I don't think that was the reason. A good example is track 7 on CD 2 of the Annie Get Your Gun. We hear what sounds like the exact same (or very nearly) orchestral version of "You Can't Get a Man With a Gun" twice. This is a case where I think if they had just played it once, no one would have cared. But that is followed on the same track by the lead-in dialogue to "Anything You Can Do." Why wasn't the dialogue tracked separately or put at the beginning of the "Anything You Can Do" track? If you want to hear the dialogue, it's a pain (and was especially in the day when we listed on physical CDs). You have to listen through the double-slog of the orchestra playing a not especially inventive version of "You Can't Get a Man With a Gun" or fast-forward through it. And in any case, if it says it's complete, it should be complete. For a long time, the Rachmaninoff 2nd symphony was only recorded with cuts, which Rachmaninoff sanctioned. Finally it was recorded without cuts, and I think it's been a long time since a new recording of it was made with cuts. Still back in the days when it had only been recorded with cuts, it would have been odd if a recording had been advertised as "the first complete recording" but it wasn't complete because the bits that they cut were the dull sections. |
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