Historical/Archival

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=110 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="15df0f21egerdp.jpg"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#336666" FACE="Arial" ><B>John W. Jinright, Ph.D.</B></FONT><B>     </B><B>|</B><B>     </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="John W. Jinright, Ph.D."><U><B>home</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id38.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Recording Projects"><U>return</U></A></div> <bR> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=210 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="15cf2f02egerdp.jpg"> <div> <A HREF="http://www.music.fsu.edu/library/cramer.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.music.fsu.edu/library/cramer."><U><IMG SRC="0c2c5c10.jpg" border=0 width="197" height="193" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></A></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> William Cramer w/ FSU Trombone Ensemble.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="10ebe8e0.jpg" border=0 width="190" height="142" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </td> <td valign="top" height=370 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="173f0f03.jpg"> <div> <I><B>Historical/Archival</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <B>World War II Veterans</B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > - Oral history project designed to be a fundraiser for the local senior center.  After I produced the project with my student engineer, the director took another job and the CD remains unreleased. </FONT></div> <div>  </div> <div>  <A HREF="http://spectrum.troy.edu/~jinright/bin/calvin.mp3" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://spectrum.troy.edu/~jinright/bin/c"><U> Calvin Head gives us a glimpse of life in Pike County during WWII.</U></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://spectrum.troy.edu/~jinright/bin/dad2.mp3" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://spectrum.troy.edu/~jinright/bin/d"><U>My father telling of his contact with a Australian who may have been the last person to have seen Amelia Earhart before her disappearance on July 2, 1937</U></A></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Rare recording </B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > (analog, remastered) of the infamous Dr. William Cramer, trombone professor at FSU in concert performing a jazz piece by Dr. Carl Vollrath.</FONT></div> <div>   <A HREF="http://spectrum.troy.edu/~jinright/bin/vollrathtbone.mp3" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://spectrum.troy.edu/~jinright/bin/v"><U>Sample</U></A></div> <bR> <div> <B>Troy Alabama's Only Drum and Bugle Corps:</B></div> <div> <A HREF="id55.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Charioteers"><U>Charioteers Drum and Bugle Corps circa 1970s  2-track digitally remastered.</U></A></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>The Welte Project         <IMG SRC="0efb8930.jpg" border=0 width="440" height="147" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://spectrum.troy.edu/~jinright/bin/saintsaens.rm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://spectrum.troy.edu/~jinright/bin/s"><U><I><B>Sample: </B></I></U></A><I><B> </B></I><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > (Streaming Realmedia)</FONT></div> <div> French composer <I><U>Camille Saint-Saens</U></I> performs his own composition Op. 90 - "Gavotte in F"  Recorded by the Welte Recording Piano in 1905 and transduced to analog by Walter Heebner.  This track appeared on the Book-of-the-Month club's 3-disc out-of-print release from the Welte Project entitled "Legendary Masters of the Piano"</div> <div> <IMG SRC="0f1fafa0.gif" border=0 width="250" height="250" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> My friend Van Dobbs acquired many unreleased historic piano recordings from the late engineer/composer Walter Heebner of California.  Walter was an employee of RCA/Victor and one of the "fathers" of the <A HREF="http://members.aol.com/boardwalk7/vdisc/vdisc.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://members.aol.com/boardwalk7/vdisc/"><U>V-DISC recordings </U></A>for the military from 1943-1949.   These were made from piano rolls created by the Welte recording piano and contained performances of many of the world's greatest pianists and composers. The only release of any of these recordings was to the Book-of-the-month club (1950-60?).  Mr. Heebner gave copies of these recordings to his protégé (Mr. Dobbs) because he wished his legacy (those recordings) to be placed in public libraries and a university around the placeU.S.  </div> <div>  </div> <div> The rolls were property of a Texas millionaire who collected player organ rolls. He owned some of the copyrights to the recordings, but he died years ago and the millionaire's 28 year period of copyright protection expired (prior to 1978, works could be copyrighted only 56 years before they entered public domain).  Mr. Heebner was a real stickler about copyrights but a search of the copyright database at the Library of Congress lists only his compositions;  it does not list his sound recordings. Presumably, the second year term of protection/ownership for some of those recordings is still owned by Mr. Heebner's family in California. Our correspondence with his daughter Mary in 2006 indicated that she could not at that time grant us permission to release the recordings, but would be working to honor her father's legacy at some point in the future.</div> <bR> <div> While it may never be released, Van and I spend countless hours transfering LPs to digital format and cleaning the audio of hours of recordings  of their hiss, crackles and pops. Walter Heebner's labor of love gives us the best glimpse we can hope for into the capabilities of the pianists from the Late Romantic and Early 20<FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" >th</FONT> Century eras.  </div> <bR> <div> <I>2/10/2002 -LOS ANGELES (AP) - Walter Heebner, a veteran record producer who worked with such stars as Frank Sinatra, Shirley Temple and the Count Basie Orchestra, died of cancer Feb. 10. He was 84. Born in Wissinoming, Pa., Heebner began playing the saxophone at age 9 and joined a ballroom orchestra as a teen-ager. He was hired in 1940 at RCA Victor in New York and was later sent to Hollywood as the company's Artist and Repertoire director. Heebner left RCA in 1950 to produce ``The Spade Cooley Show,'' broadcast live from a ballroom on the Santa Monica Pier. After three years with the show, he returned to New York to started Capitol Records' Custom Division. He created a library for the company that included an eight-hour repertoire of musical cues that is still in use today in radio and film. Heebner also wrote the words and music for 20 songs, including ``Purple Islands'' and ``Eternally,'' recorded in the 1950s. One of his greatest achievements was transferring the master tapes of 500 vintage classical music piano rolls from the early 20th century to stereo analog. The recordings captured original performances by Mahler, Debussy, Ravel and other famous pianists. </I></div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>