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Mike...
Posted: Thu Oct 22, 2009 5:49 pm
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In article <c5eece4b-41a0-44bd-a219-de17d9cd5d7a at (no spam) i4g2000prm.googlegroups.com>,
micky <michelle at (no spam) polkajoy.com> wrote:

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On Oct 15, 7:17 pm, TZ <polkanite... at (no spam) aol.com> wrote:
Coming later this year and into 2010. All 114 of the Danas will be
made available for sale on cd. The first wave will hit late November/
early December with more editions to follows. Artwork will include
their original album cover.   Also coming is the REX collection on
cd.  More details to follow as they are made available as well as
where you can get them.

I'm glad to hear someone, or company, or heirs to the Dana collection,
are re-engineering and reproducing this collection.

Wasn't Dana purchased by Atlantic Records or Columbia or some other
very big name????????? and the Dana recordings were deeply buried in
record company propaganda (i.e. polkas weren't a money-maker or hip)?
Kudos to whoever it is who was able to get permission from whatever
major record label to reproduce all those recordings. It must have
been a ton of paperwork and money getting that record label to release
all the production rights.

It's fantastical those recordings will be available once again.

DANA was purchased in the early 80's by Jubilee records. Walter Dana had retired to Florida to do
other projects. Then sometime after that, the owner of Jubilee passed away and his widow had control
of things along with what appears to be some of the family.

They licensed the masters out to Fiesta Records who put out the two-LP "DANA SERIES" sets of Zima,
Bomba, Adamczyk, Henry, and I think Wojonerowski. Then Fiesta disappeared either being purchased or
gone out of business which was more towards 1990 or so.

The collection is being restored from LP's, cleaned up and remastered with the original artwork.
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Mike
 
wsb...
Posted: Sun Oct 25, 2009 2:47 pm
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On Oct 22, 12:43 am, Jim <j... at (no spam) NOSpaMync.net> wrote:
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In article <0602928e-5dcd-4d19-8a65-d35bbdbc5... at (no spam) o36g2000vbl.googlegroups..com>,



"What?" <whatpo... at (no spam) yahoo.com> wrote:
On Oct 21, 12:39 am, Jim <j... at (no spam) NOSpaMync.net> wrote:
In article
9d101918-9e92-494e-88c8-fa81cb1a4... at (no spam) s31g2000yqs.googlegroups.com>,

"What?" <whatpo... at (no spam) yahoo.com> wrote:
On Oct 14, 9:34 pm, Mike <m... at (no spam) nononccfaba.org> wrote:
out in some months as there's a lot of work. Restrored and maybe better
than the originals.
--
Mike

Is this restoration from the masters or from scratchy old records? Is
it the whole Dana catalog?

Scratchy old records...you're thinking of 78's, but even those can be made
to sound better than new
with todays software. Unless you've actually worked restoring something,
you truly have no idea what
can and has been done.

There's a jazz record label in Chicago that has been doing this for years,
as in over a decade and
they've had Ceder in England doing the stuff and it's more than quite good.

--
Jim

Actually I was thinking about all old records. I know all about audio
restorative software. I'm a musician and electrical engineer so I do
have a brain. Do not assume everyone else is stupid. Jeez!!!!!

Greg

Then perhaps, if you're so knowledgeable, you might think before painting with such a broad brush.

You'd also know what I've said is in fact true‹that the old records can be made to sound better than
when they were new. Tuck your ego away, please.

--
Jim

Jim Email me in reference to the Dana Collection Billy B
 
 
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