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Music to this particular story. Let's get to it. You're listening to 20,000 Hertz. I'm Dallas Taylor.

Whenever I listen to vintage music,

one of the first things that I notice is a lack of bass.

For example, in 1912, the top song in America was The Haunting Melody by Al Jolson.

Tell me have you ever heard yes melody?

Since this was recorded with a full orchestra, there's almost certainly a double bass in there, but you'd never know it from the record.

20 years later, things were not much better. Here's a Louis Armstrong track from the early 30s. In this one, the double bass is just barely audible.

In the 1950s, the bass started becoming a bit more noticeable.

In Bill Haley's Rock Around the Clock, you can definitely hear what the bassist

is playing, though it's still pretty quiet.

A decade later, bass guitar is much more common, but the recordings were still pretty thin. In this Rolling

Stones track, the bass guitar and kick drum just aren't very present. Now, it's not that people back then didn't care about bass.

The microphones they had just weren't very good at capturing those frequencies.

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