STUCK IN THE VINYL AGAIN - SESSIONS - VARIOUS ARTISTS

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Good morning Friday people and welcome back to Stuck In The Vinyl Again. Today we remember Greenridge, Illinois native, pioneering audio engineer, loudspeaker designer, and inventor, James Bullough Lansing, on this, the 74th anniversary of his passing. He was born  James Martini on January 2, 1902 to parents Henry Martini of St. Louis, Missouri, and Grace Erbs Martini of Central City, Illinois. His Father was coal mining engineer and James was the 9th of 14 children. By the time he was 12 years old he built a radio transmitter so powerful it gained attention from the Great Lakes Naval Station in Illinois, who traced the source of the signal and kindly dismantled it. In 1924 James' Mother died and he moved to Salt Lake City where he met his future Wife, Glenna Peterson, and future business partner, Ken Decker. In 1927 the duo moved to Los Angeles and started the Lansing Manufacturing Company. In 1939 Decker was killed in an airplane crash and the business started to suffer under Lansing's tutelage. Altec Service Corporation bought Lansing Manufacturing Company in 1941 and changed the name to Altec Lansing and James became VP of Engineering. When 1946 rolled around he left Altec and formed  "James B. Lansing Sound, Incorporated" or JBL. After many business and personal problems Lansing committed suicide by hanging on September 29, 1949. He was 47. 

With him in mind we spotlight this 1973 JBL Records release, Sessions by various artists. The double LP is basically  a guide to how records are made, using a Hoyt Axton recording session in Capitol's studio as an example, with the finished product placed at the end of side D. We got our copy years ago at the now Legendary J.R.'s Junk Trunk. 

A1 Larry Phillips– Insight
A2 Rosmini / Ruskin– Patriarch And Blind
A3 Unknown Artist– Insight
A4 Alex Harvey – Devil On My Shoulder
A5 Unknown Artist– Insight
A6 Alex Richman– It Doesn't Have To Be Wrong

Loudspeaker Coloration Test

B1 Unknown Artist– Low Frequency Demonstration
B2 Unknown Artist– High Frequency Demonstration
B3 Paul Parrish– Popular Instruments (Drums - Bass + Bass Drum - Piano - Guitar) / Piano Theme
B4 Unknown Artist– Symphonic Instruments (Bass - Cello - Viola - Violin - Tympani - Bass Flute - Alto Flute - Oboe - English Horn)

Studio Insight - 16 Track Recording

C1 Various– Set-up
C2 Various– Balance & Rehearsal
C3 Various– Take 7
C4 Various– Playback

Studio Insight - 16 Track To Stereo Mixdown

D1 Unknown Artist– Individual Tracks, Drum, Guitar
D2 Unknown Artist– Bass, Piano, Vocal
D3 Unknown Artist– Equalization
D4 Unknown Artist– Echo
D5 Unknown Artist– Stereo Balance
D6 Hoyt Axton– Captain America
D7 Hoyt Axton– Joy To The World

Bass – Arnie Moore (tracks: C1 to C4)
Drums – Mike Botts (tracks: C1 to C4)
Electric Guitar – Bruce Langhorne
Engineer – Hugh Davies 
Piano – Dave Jackson
Producer, Written-By – Dick Rosmini
Written-By – Hoyt Axton (tracks: D6, D7)
Written-By, Narrator [Announcer], Producer – Larry Phillips