The Haunted Victrola is back!! Shivery shellac offerings from 1909-1949!
It occurred to me that all my of my Halloween shellac postings were pre-Vinyl Studio, which means none of them had the proper response curves. So, working like a demon, I pulled twenty-two 78s from...
View ArticleFavorite gospel tracks, Part 9--I'll Live in Glory, Sweeter Than All,...
Our series returns, and no time for notes, as I'm getting ready for church... and I have some kind of stomach bug. My low-grade fever has broken, however, so I'm not contagious--I hope. A nice...
View ArticleVariety Records: The Nation's Top Hits (1956, I'm presuming)
For some reason, I'm always thinking that Variety was a sub-label of Broadway--and then I remember that it wasn't. Discogs isn't much help. "Profile: US label," it says. Um, yeah. We know.My...
View ArticleWallace Reducing Record, No. 3 and No. 4 (1922)--"One... two! One... two!"
In case anyone wondered when I was going to get around to featuring weight-loss 78s from 1922, today is your lucky day. At a Goodwill where 78s were the last thing I expected, a nice little stack of...
View ArticleFavorite Gospel Tracks, Part 10--Phipps Family, London Philharmonic Choir,...
Not much time to write about the tracks--maybe tomorrow. Except to note that Let the Sunshine In is not the Stuart Hamblen song, whose main title is Open Up Your Heart--this Sunshine has an 1895 text...
View ArticleVeterans Day 2019--Sounds from 1902 to 1941
Save for the mournful anti-war classic The Trumpeter (J. Francis Burton-J. Airlie Dix, 1904), which I present often at this blog (this is my latest and best rip), these tracks are kind of a happy...
View ArticleThe rest of my Goodwill haul--Pathe verticals, Waterford High School Wildcat...
A few posts ago, I shared two items from a recent Goodwill haul--two Wallace Reducing Record 78s from a get-thin-to music album of 1922, possibly the first example of its type. Today, the rest of that...
View ArticleKostelanetz-athon! 1934-1952, with bonus Holst and Honegger sides
Well, "Kostelanetz-athon" is less awkward than "Kosty-athon," at least. I think. It's just a blog post, so no biggie... Anyway, Buster mentioned looking forward to hearing the 1938 Kostelanetz sides...
View ArticleFavorite Gospel Tracks, Part 11--The Burden Lifters, The Gospel Bells...
At the moment (Saturday evening), I'm re-ripping a few 78s, as I discovered to my amazement that I had connected the lead wires incorrectly on my Stanton 500.V3! I was going to experiment with getting...
View ArticleReturn of "Oh, Happy Day," plus two other duds and a good Mimi Martel...
The 1952 Don Howard Koplow hit Oh, Happy Day isn't much of a song (or performance), but its importance to rock and roll is huge--it was one of the first r&r records to hit the pop charts, and hit...
View ArticleTops in Pops--Royale 18125 and 18125D
Two 10-inch Tops in Pops on Royale--the perfect music for Thanksgiving. Actually, these are a pair I recently found on eBay quite cheap, and the discs looked to be in fine shape in the ad photos....
View ArticleKeeping Christmas; Let's Keep Christmas, 'Twas the Night Before Christmas
Starting the Christmas posting season with Line Material is the best way I know how. And today's playlist starts with Line Material's employee giveaway for Christmas 1949--Keeping Christmas, narrated...
View ArticleMusic for Christmas: "Music for Christmas" (Varsity 69151)
Varsity, circa 1953: "Let's put out another LP of music for Christmas. What should we call it?" "Um, Music for Christmas?" "Brilliant! Let's go with that. Oh, by the way, somebody remind the...
View ArticleMerry Christmas from Line Material, 1956-1962--reposted from 2018
(This is my Line Material post from last year, with a few changes. This is for anyone who hasn't had the chance to enjoy these gems in MY(P)WHAE Christmas posts past. The only track missing in this...
View ArticleGetting ready for Christmas? (2016 repost)
I'd forgotten about this Dec. 25 post from 2016. Lots of cool Christmas ads from this 1899 issue of The Youth's Companion. A little to late to order them, though....Getting ready for Christmas? I...
View ArticleFrom last year: Tu Scendi Dalle Stelle (You Come Down from the Stars)
This gorgeous seven-inch Italian picture record, sort of a semi-flexi disc, showed up for me at the St. Vincent de Paul thrift that I go to all the time. Tu Scendi Dalle Stelle (You Come Down from the...
View ArticleThe Billy Four: A Record for Christmas (1948)
I found this in April and posted it. The Zippy link is kaput, so I thought I'd repost. Plus, it's Christmas. (In my culture, "It's Christmas" means "Christmas is almost here.")Once upon a time,...
View ArticleThe Abbey Choir Sings Christmas (Parade XSP-402)
The cover sold me on this LP. Since we're talking the St. Vincent de Paul thrift store, we're not talking much dough, but I'm picky, anyway. (Cheap? No, picky.) The vinyl wasn't in great shape, but...
View ArticleLee plays Christmas music, Part 1--songs, carols, and hymns
Me on the Casio WK-3800 (no, that's not me above the text), from 2013, multi-tracking on Sonar X-2, then adding effects with MAGIX. Everything is "live," though multi-tracked. No sequencing.The...
View ArticleLee plays Christmas music, Part 2--Epiphany hymns, plus 26 more Christmas...
We start with seven Epiphany hymns, played by your blogger on his Casio WK-3800, with multi-tracking and MAGIX Audio Cleaning Lab MX effects.All but two are traditional tunes--meaning, of course, that...
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