Jim Stokes wrote:

>In reply to Dave Lampson, my first hearing of the Pachelbel Canon was on a
>Boston Pops/Fielder recording on the old RCA Red Seal Series in the early
>50s.
>
>However, you have to listen carefully to hear the sweet tune of that
>often-heard Canon nowadays.  It was either in the arrangement or microphone
>placement that the sweet tune was all but buried for the "sawing wood" of
>the basses in this particular Boston Pops recording.:) This selection was
>strangely out of place with all the other Pops favorities on the LP.

If the focus was poor, it probably was the recording by Fiedler's
Sinfonietta that was issued in the 1940s on 78rpm.

John Dalmas
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