--- In [email protected], Walt DuBose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ...I am looking for a > CD or DVD that has the Paul whiteman band with Gershwin at the piano playing > "Rhapsody in Blue" A 40's RCA 78 RPM record. My copy was stolen but I have the > RCA jacket. :-)
Walt -- I had a copy of that at one time too, 1968 or so. It's a horribly butchered version so as to fit onto a single 78 :-( The "official" 78 recording with Oscar Levant ain't much better. Michael Thomas and SFO did a modern recording using George's piano roll...digital technology to the rescue once more! It was, after all, the piano roll that prompted the other George, Antheil, to invent spread spectrum. (And yes, Hedy was supposed to have had a hand in it too. So to speak.) 73 Frank AB2KT
