[Vintage-Audio] JVC Speakers

Fri Sep 26 17:31:01 2003

Bob, 	

I can burn anything you want on CD, just ask - 	

He set the record for the lowest note by a bass singer on Blessed Assurance on
the Stamps album entitled "The Incomparable Stamps". That is in the Ginnis Book
Of World Records, or was the last I knew. I am 'certain' nobody broke the
record! I doubt that anyone ever will either. 	

I knew him personally, (he passed away while on tour in FL several years ago),
and unless you heard that man sing live, you have no idea what he could do with
a bass note! He could actually sing down there below 100Hz, not just growl.
Unbelievable.   	

I remember one time when he was here in Flint and when he came on stage they
turned down the house PA systems! he still made the floor literally vibrate. I
had a Coke in my hand and the cup was actually vibrating! What he did was real,
no electronic tricks. The last I heard him sing live, a friend of mine who is
also a bass singer, and his group were singing with the Stamps as the opening
act. He could see the EQ and it was set flat. J.D. was seventy-two at the time
and about destroyed all the speakers in the place! In fact, the woofers they had
started to distort he drove them so hard! They had to switch to the sound system
the Stamps carry with them during intermission. All Bose, by the way. There were
two Bose 302 bass cabinets and old J.D. brought the place down, almost
literally! What a voice! 	

That is one really nice thing about my thirty years on stage. I was good enough,
and became well known enough, that I got invited back stage whenever the
entertainers found out I was in the house audience. Even though I was a
professional Magician/Illusionist, and they were
actors/singers/musicians/comedians, an entertainer is still an entertainer. I
got to meet some really great people, and some not so nice ones too! Egos do
abound in the entertainment world, perhaps more so than some other places.
However, politicians hold the record for largest ego!      	

The sweetest female I met was Marie Osmond. The greatest nice guy was James
Garner. Probably the most real on/off stage was Jimmy Stewart, an incredible
person. Most fantastic female overall, had to be Olivia Newton John. Terrific
talent and first class lady. If I keep this up, I may have to come out of
retirement! Why not, seems like everybody else is doing a farewell tour!	

DBF	

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From: WBob <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Vintage-Audio] JVC Speakers
Date: Friday, September 26, 2003 4:53 PM

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.
> 
>      	 
> 
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> 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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