[Vintage-Audio] JVC Speakers
WBob
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Fri Sep 26 16:56:00 2003
I downloaded a sample of JD Sumner from Amazon and your are right. He do get
down there a bit in "lonesome road". Problem is I can't capture it and have it
come out of the main system here in the office, but only out of my (very good)
computer audio system (Cambridge SoundWorks).
WBob
Duane Fischer, W8DBF wrote:
> Mike,
>
> Because you asked:
>
> 1. J.D. sumner and The Stamps Quartet. Southern Gospel. J.D. Sumner is the
> lowest bass singer in the world. He is documented at 32 Hz! This was live and
> outside. He was going to retire because of throat problems, and was training a
> replacement to sing bass, a young man named Richard Sterbin. The Stamps sang
> behind Elvis Presley the last seven years of Elvis's life. Elvis did not want
> J.D. to retire and begged him to stay on. J.D. did and got Richard a job with
> the Oakridge Boys, where Richard still is today. This was 1972, by the way. This
> is a song J.D. wrote called "Walk That Lonesome Road" There are some note son
> there that will separate the woofers from the wimps!
>
> 2. Floyd Cramer, the noted RCA Nashville studio piano wizard. This song is
> Cotton Fields with some fantastic notes off a harmonica played by Charlie McCoy.
>
>
> 3. Lacy J. Dalton, a Country vocalist doing "Sixteenth Avenue". A great slower
> tune with wonderful lyrics, but some sharp bass guitar notes that make a good
> woofr snap, instead of a muffled or muddy note.
>
> 4. Pete Fountain, noted dixieland jazz clarinet player. A longer song with
> several of the band's musicians being featured, trombone, saxophone, drums and
> so forth.
>
> 5. Arlo Guthrie. A folk singer with perhaps the best rendition ever of "The
> Spirit Of New Orleans". Nice vocal with terrific background instrumental.
>
> 6. Guitars Unlimited. Beautiful rendition of "The Girl From Ipenema" (sp?)
> Several different types of guitars with audio pick up. You can hear the musician
> pluck the strings.
>
> 7. Olivia Newton John. Her hit from about 1974 "If You Love Me Let Me Know".
> Nice mix with a bass singer in the background and nice clear high notes.
>
>
>
> ----------
> From: Mike Clarson <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: RE: [Vintage-Audio] JVC Speakers
> Date: Friday, September 26, 2003 2:48 PM
>
>
> Duane: You have my curiosity up-- what was on the CD?--Mike, WV2ZOW
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