Sinatra's "Popping P's": Why aren't they corrected or softened?

I thought maybe both daughters were popping their P's.

 

Indeed. I've seen that on various '60s TV shows.

 

I use to do a trick to them in digital audio tape to get rid of them on just the vocal track.
I would do a punch in and out that were fractions of a second that would chop the very beginning of the "P" off.
It was an invisible fix always. Worked like a charm. I imagine the same thing could be done on most DAWs.

 

The mic screen in those Sinatra/Basie pictures looks different to me...like it has a golf ball pattern on it.

 

Slightly higher quality:



Unfortunately nothing is jumping out at me as far as details go. I don’t think that’s a Sennheiser stand mount though.

Also unfortunately most of the Sinatra/Basie photos seem to be of the Sands. I don’t need 200 photos to know that’s a Shure 546.

I know someone who knows a lot about Schoeps. I’ll see if he recognizes it.

 

Did Altec make a mic that a windscreen like that would go on?

 

The AKG text/logo also seems to match.

Pretty sure that's it.

 

There's video and audio of Tony Bennett using that same mike without the windscreen circa 1972. Needless to say, it's NOT pretty!

 

Same mics, even:

 

Presumably the C28 was also possible:

https://www.akg.com/on/demandware.s.../default/dwd51963ef/pdfs/C28_C29_C30_info.pdf

 

Not sure, but I think the designs changed over time. Some C60s have that design near the bottom of the mic but others have a different design higher up.

 

I believe so, yes.

 

Live at Royal Albert Hall immediately comes to mind. He did a short-lived TV series in London around the same time using the same mike in the same manner. Not his best move. IIRC, Tony rarely used a "mike in a stand".