[Harp-L] More Cadillac Records

[martin oldsberg <martinoldsberg@xxxxxxxxx>]

In the review of "Cadillac Records" on www.allmovie.com it says about Len Chess´ (factual) recording practices that: "Purportedly, Chess simply cut out a lot of musician's tracks without telling them -- an unethical move not even hinted at here." 
 Is this true about how things were done in the studio, early ´50s? I was under the impression that what they were dealing with then was one-, or possibly, two-track equipment?
 
  As for the film, expectation levels should be set to somewhere below zero for this kind of undertaking. Hollywood is still making "The Glenn Miller Story" over and over again, sometimes with drugs, sometimes without. Inroducing a murder, as well as simply cutting out one of the brothers seems a fair indication of the historical veracity.
 
cheers,
Martin