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"Onb Samba" (Music About A Chemical)

by: The Don Juan Quartet; Russ David

Monsanto Chemical Company (PC-7188)

Publication date: 1953

Topics: 78rpm, Samba, Brazilian, Popular Music, Latin

Contributor: Internet Archive

Language: English

Performer: The Don Juan Quartet
Writer: Russ David

Digitized from a shellac record, at 78 revolutions per minute. Four stylii were used to transfer this record.They are 2.0 mil truncated conical, 2.3 mil truncated conical, 2.8 mil truncated conical, 3.3 mil truncated conical. These were recorded flat and then also equalized with Turnover: 400.0, Rolloff: -12.0.

The preferred version suggested by an audio engineer at George Blood, L.P. is the equalized version recorded with the 2.0 mil truncated conical stylus, and has been copied to have the more friendly filename.

Matrix number: PC7188
Catalog number: PC-7188

Notes

The recording on the other side of this disc: "Monsanto March"

Notes of Interest: Propaganda music for Monsanto?

Addeddate: 2017-03-03 00:14:55

Boxid: IA1562124

Collection-catalog-number: GBIA0001879B

External-identifier: urn:matrix_no:PC7188

External_metadata_update: 2019-03-30T06:48:02Z

Genre: Latin
Samba
Brazilian
Popular Music

Identifier: 78_onb-samba-music-about-a-chemical_the-don-juan-quartet-russ-david_gbia0001879b

Location: USA

Restored: True

Run time: 00:03:05

Scanner: Internet Archive Python library 1.5.0

Scanningcenter: George Blood, L.P.

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Reviewer: bri audio - - June 3, 2020
Subject: Light Restoration

Lightly restored using iZotope RX Standard

Reviewer: D121212 - - August 12, 2017
Subject: Inspiration?

In the movie "The Pianist" Szpilman plays "Chopin's Ballade in G minor" for the Nazi Officer. ONb Samba reminded me of that rendition of Chopin's song performed in the movie.

The question is does "Onb Samba" draw inspiration from Chopin's song or does Szpilman performance draw from "Music About A Checmical"?

Reviewer: arc-gil - - May 23, 2017
Subject: Monsanto Propaganda

Sounds like some proud and jolly promotional material for Monsanto, a chemical company that became commercially popular in the early 1900s because of their success with food additives such as artificial sweetener saccharin, caffeine, and vanilla. They have gotten flack through the years for their environmentally harmful chemicals.

Recorded for the company in 1953, “Onb Samba” is a quick and twirly Brazilian style samba. Its B-side “Monsanto March” is a proud and steady classical march. St. Louis composer Russ David was a bandleader and pianist known for his work in jingles—his most famous being the Budweiser sponsored 1960 album “Where There’s Life” taken from Budweiser’s ad slogan “Where There’s Life, There’s Bud".
Check out more information on the album and the ad here: (http://beachpackagingdesign.com/boxvox/where-theres-life).

[Date source: http://www.45worlds.com/78rpm/record/nc420254us]

Reviewer: brewster - - May 6, 2017
Subject: 1953 78rpm record

according to this listing, it is from 1953:
http://www.45worlds.com/78rpm/record/nc420254us

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