Word: shellacing
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...Rambler Song Shellac...
Sitting in his studio in Devon, Parker, 55, speaks passionately about his work. "It's really miraculous when you think about it," he says, taking a shiny black record from its jacket. "These little shellac disks are like time capsules." He marvels at the amount of sonic information that was originally captured on the old records -- far more than the primitive playback techniques of the time were able to reproduce...
...charts unpasteurized. B.B. King and Muddy Waters have the names, but Eric Clapton's elegant revisionism makes the hits. For someone who plays and sings the blues as righteously as Robert Cray, it might be expected that he would become just another dimly remembered performer, hunkered down, playing the shellac off old 78s by forgotten Mississippi bands. That is not the way of it, though. In this, and in much else, Robert Cray has a different way about...
...good as what is now available to them." He was defending 78s against the encroachments of the new long-playing records in much the same terms that LP defenders cast their arguments today. And no doubt there were those who bemoaned the loss of their Edison cylinders when shellac came...
...Trout available for the home VCR, it is not surprising that video companies also have something for the opera lover. But while filmmakers have long since perfected the art of adapting plays and musicals to their medium, opera on film or videotape is in its infancy, the equivalent of shellac 78s in the age of digital CDs. Except for such movies as Franco Zeffirelli's La Traviata or Francesco Rosi's Bizet's Carmen, most videos are theatrical presentations rather than cinematic creations in their own right. Still, there is much to be said for having the best seat...