"David Looser" wrote in message
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OTOH I recently inherited a double LP re-issue of the Lew Stone recordings
of 1935. The technical quality varies, but the best are superb. I was
amused to hear his version of "Anything Goes" (which is on the LP) used on
the soundtrack of the 2008 film "Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day". It did
not in any way sound like a "period" recording, but it was Lew Stone's
1935 recording - I checked the credits. It seems to me ironic that so many
pop recordings of the analogue tape era are technically inferior to
pre-war direct-to-disc 78rpm ones.

It was a similar observation on the part of mastering engineer Doug Sax that
persuaded him to start Sheffield Records and release direct-to-disk LPs.

Peace,
Paul