Button Up Your Overcoat b/w I Want To Be Bad - Zelma O'Neal with Al Goodman's "Follow Thru" Orchestra

[Jeff238]

The Broadway musical of "Follow Thru" opened in early January of 1929.  This recording, released on Brunswick 4207, was made on January 18, 1929.  A two strip Technicolor Paramount film based on the play was released in 1930.  It also featured Zelma O'Neal performing the two selections on this record.  If you search the web for Follow Thru (1930) you can find more information and the film itself posted on various sites.  The sequence featuring I Want To Be Bad is particularly striking.

[Henry]

Nice clean sound! What’s your playback set-up? Thanks for posting!

[Jeff238]

19 hours ago, Henry said:

Nice clean sound! What’s your playback set-up? Thanks for posting!

Henry, thanks for the compliment.  I use a Thorens TD-126 Mk III turntable with a Shure V-15 Type V cartridge equipped with a Shure VN-578E elliptical stylus.  To set the basic eq I use a Rek-O-Kut Re-equalizer.  I then fine-tune the sound with Rane PE-15 and PE-17 parametric equalizers.  I record to digital with a Masterlink ML-9600 recorder.  Of course it helps that the 78 is in nice condition!

[Henry]

Wow, super.  Impressive set-up! It just goes to show what's imbedded in the grooves of this old technology---lots more than even the best machines could reproduce back in the day.