GEORGE
MARTIN
Before the Beatles George Martin's Parlophone Label had been called the "eccentric arm" of
EMI, which obtained an erroneous reputation for comedy records which were primarily songs
as opposed to comedy routines. That list includes: Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan - both from
the Goons..... There were other artists he
produced whose work was not easily categorised ranging from Cleo Laine, to Johnny
Dankworth, Ron Goodwin, to Humphrey Lyttleton, etc. It was not a..... (more)
DUFFY
POWER
Duffy
Power never quite achieved the success he deserved, either as a straight
pop star or in his later guise as a respected exponent of the British
Blues and R&B scene in the late 60's. Power started off his career as
an early British Rock 'n' Roller in the closing years of the 1950's under
the management of Larry Parnes. In 1959 he was signed to Fontana for whom
he recorded three singles that year which also appeared on..... (more)
RECORDING
METHODS
Although
mono was still King in the UK in the late 1950's (and would remain so
for some years yet) the Abbey Road studios
staff were well versed in recording large orchestras "live"
onto a twin-track stereo machine for a virtually immediate stereo mastered
product..... For a
raw rock band consisting of four instruments plus singer a similar but economical "live"
method would be employed where a few microphones were set up.
Sometimes it was even more basic..... (more) |