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Tea Cup Girl; The Vamp; more! (1919-1922)
So, I just discovered something about my Magix program that I didn't know: it exports individual WAV files as mp3s. Previous versions didn't do this, and I swear I tried it with this version and...
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Smith's Sacred Singers, 1926-1930--Classic country gospel!
Terrific gospel sides by the terrific Smith's Sacred Singers, a quartet from North Carolina Georgia which was led by one J. Frank Smith. Many familiar tunes here, and I've done my best to trace them...
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Happy Presidents Day, 2016!
To celebrate Presidents Day (or is it Presidents' Day?), here are five 78s from my collection that do the job. All ripped and edited by me using MAGIX Audio Cleaner MX.George M. Cohan's Father of the...
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Smith's Sacred Singers, Part 2 (1926-1929)
More classic country gospel from the early days of electrical recording. Eight tracks this time (last time, I posted twelve)--as before, ripped and restored by me from my out-of-control collection....
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The Antique Pops Hour, No. 1 (1901?-1927)
And this is the Antique Pops Hour, No. 1. There's not quite an hour's worth of music here--closer to 28 minutes, actually. But you can put each track on repeat play and get something in the area of...
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Music for Lent--Your blogger at Casio WK-3800!
Me, on the Casio WK-3800, playing "live" (i.e., without MIDI). The medley was multi-tracked with Sonar X2 Essential, and ditto for the start of O Sacred Head, but the rest are straight from the...
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78s for Easter!--The Shannon, Trinity, and Columbia Stellar Quartets.
Happy Easter! I've provided an individual link for each of our three Easter discs. There would have been four, but Memories of Easter, Part 2 is an off-center pressing--enough so, that I decided to...
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The Antique Pops Hour, No. 2 (1901-1928)--Frank Bridge, Theodore Moses...
Henry Carey's 18th-century hit, Sally in Our Alley, to the tune of "The Country Lass"(above). We'll be hearing Frank Bridge's 1916 arrangement of same. Ethelbert Nevin, c. 1890,...
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The winds have been whipping up around these parts....
Early this morning....Bev (from her bedroom): Antenna's down!Me (sleeping in chair): What?Bev: Antenna's down!Me (after long pause): Oh.Took a moment to sink in. Yes, our 40-plus-year-old antenna is...
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My Box downloads are now working! Here, again (in two parts), is the Antique...
(Note: When I first posted this, my Box downloads weren't happening. I contacted Box, and they fixed the issue. Took a while, because they neglected to get back to me at first, but Box is a fantastic...
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Sunday morning concert--Your blogger at the keyboard
Blogger/keyboardist/Navy vet/cat care specialist Lee HartsfeldI have 51 minutes before it's no longer Sunday morning, so... to the notes. For today's Sunday morning concert,...
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Pacific 231 (Arthur Honegger)--Continental Symphony Orch., cond. by Piero...
I recently bought this 78 from eBay, and I was astonished to find it in such fine shape--I wonder if this copy had ever been touched by a needle before I placed my Stanton stylus on it. A 1927...
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Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I'm 59?
Your blogger (in stereo) at 59. It happened yesterday (May 22nd). I was minding my own business being 58, and, the next thing I knew, the last digit ticked up.Meanwhile, we have a new cat. He's a...
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3.5 mil 78 stylus
My new Rek-o-Kut 3.5 mil 78 stylus is making a night-and-day difference with many, if not most, of my 78s. My standard (2.7 mil) stylus is excellent, but it's not properly tracking my older 78s. And...
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Shellac attack!! 78s ripped with my new 78 stylus
Today, I turned 59 plus six days, yet I don't feel a day over 59 plus five days.Today, 78s ripped with my new, 3.5. mil stylus--Note that I said "ripped with," not "by." I'm sure this splendid new...
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Don Richardson--very early country! (1916 and 1921)
From my collection, eight sides by this marvelous violinist/fiddler. Rather than try to write a blurb myself, let me refer you to some terrific passages about Richardson from Play Me Something Quick...
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Sunday morning shellac! (1908-1927)
We'll pretend it's Sunday morning--or I will, anyway. Otherwise, I'd have to title this "Monday a.m. shellac."Lots of great stuff here, and most of these sides are seeing the light of blog for the...
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"Prince of Wails"--Yet more 78s from the 78 era!
78s from the 78 era--yes, sir. They're the best kind, in my view. The 78-est. Today's playlist starts in 1901 and ends in 1924. We've got dance music, a circus gallop, a quartet side, a xylophone...
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Way-late Memorial Day 78s: "Unknown Soldier's Grave" (1925) and "The...
Well, actually, the 78s aren't late--I'm late in posting them. My apologies to any 78s I might have offended.Yes, we're coming up on July 4th (at least, the local TV stations are already booming about...
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Sunday night gospel: When the Gates of Glory Open, Be a Daniel, Don't You...
Some great country gospel from the late 1920s, a 1912 recording of Will the Circle Be Unbroken by the Scottish gospel singer William MacEwan, and so much more in today's--er, tonight's--Sunday gospel...
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