Freddy Gumbs - Limited Edition Lathe cut 45's
Listen To Track - https://open.spotify.com/track/4IPvgHPmccQ5nxvBdtS7yU
Freddy Gumbs was gifted at birth with a blessed voice, at the age of six he had his 1st television debut on a childrens program in Curecro playing a guitar that he made. When he was 17 he wrote his first hit song Minerva, backed with a cover of the Bill Withers classic Lean On Me, with which he earned his first of three gold records. Freddy released several more singles Bouncing Calypso and Freddy Forever during the 1970's and in 1982 he composed and produced the album Sweet Sugar Candy released in 1984. In 1993 The Walt Disney Company in the Netherlands had Freddy record many songs and character voices for the Dutch versions of classics such as The Little Mermaid playing “Sebastian the Crab” and singing the song's “Deep In The Sea” and “Kiss Her Then”,
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What are Lathe Cut records? In a nutshell:
This record was hand shaped and individually cut in real time using a 1940's Presto 75A recording lathe. It is a unique piece! It is not the same as a traditional pressed record, It was not made in a factory! It was hand carved from a 8ft sheet of poly carbonate plastic,shaped,sanded, waxed and cut in real time by one person.
All records are tested after cutting and will playback correctly on properly weighted turntables.
Lathe Cutting is a process which utilizes a sharp cutting stylus to engrave or emboss sound grooves onto a disk. Lathe cut records are an alternative to the modern practice of pressing records with metal plates. In lathe cutting a voice coil is used to drive a needle which cuts the sound waves into the revolving disk beneath it. This method has long been used for producing lacquer masters, which are then used to make metal plates for pressing. Most of the machines used for this purpose were manufactured pre-1960. The machine used (Presto 75A) began production in 1938.