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Thread #58891   Message #2366426
Posted By: GUEST,John Whitmore
15-Jun-08 - 02:52 PM
Thread Name: Review: The Songwainers
Subject: RE: Review: The Songwainers
I was a violinist with the Leicestershire Schools Symphony Orhestra in the late 1960s and we made a couple of albums for the Argo label conducted by Previn, Tippett, Bliss and Herbert Chappell. The producer was Fred Woods with engineering by Kevin Daly. When I left Leicester for University (Surrey) I contacted Fred and went to sit into one of his sessions at West Hampstead. It was a folk group called The Songwainers. I remember how talented they were. I also remember Fred being concerned that it was taking a long time to get the music in the can. The sound in the studio sounded very nasal and distorted with too much left/right separation for my taste. I bought the LP, abosolutely loved it but hated the technical quality of the nasal recording. I've heard nothing of The Songwainers until I stumbled on this web item. Happy memories. Can you get this LP on Cd by the way? I would like to hear it again.