There's so many gizmos in the studio you can't trust anything you hear anymore. I have an old Roland VS-880 digital recorder and it's already obsolete and yet it's amazing what it can do. I can sing into it, for example, turn a couple of knobs and my voice turns into that of a female--an ugly female to be sure, but a female. If I put it out on a CD, you wouldn't know it wasn't a woman singing.

The following was recorded around 1952 or 3. It's Jimmy Bryant and Speedy West with Cliffie Stone on bass. This was in the days when what they played was what you heard. And---ohhh---what they played:

China Boy