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Memorial Day, 2013
Over There Fantasie (Grofe)--United States Army Band, c. Col. Samuel R. Loboda, 1975.Wings of Victory--March (Ventre)--Morton Gould, c. the Columbia Concert Band, c. 1953.The Trumpeter (Descriptive...
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"Merging Traffic," "Rock 'Round the Old Corral," and more!
Rock 'Round the Old Corral is cool. And weird. When I spotted it on eBay, my brain said, "Bid." Bid I did. Same with Bob Carroll's Hi Yo Silver, which turns out to be the theme from 1958's The Lone...
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Your blogger at the keyboard: "Burt Bacharach Is Back Again"
I wrote Burt Bacharach Is Back Again as a song about, oh, twelve years ago. I don't know what I did with the lyrics, but the tune survives, and last week I arranged it for several instruments and...
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The Star Spangled Tiki; Star Spangled Blues
Two Lee Hartsfeld originals--The Star Spangled Tiki and Star Spangled Blues. They're a mixture of MIDI and "live" playing, and I used MAGIX, Sonar X2, and my amazing Casio WK-3800 to make them. Oh,...
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One more: The Star Spangled Express
How do you like my Star Spangled Express illustration? My photo software, which came bundled with my scanner, is a nerd's paradise. I carefully combined two images and then applied special effects to...
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Ragtime Riot--Ten rags by your blogger
Ten rags, all but one of them twenty-plus years old and written and performed by me using MIDI for input and playback (save for Libbey Rag, which is me in real time and "live"). You'll hear my...
View ArticleMy first pontification since February!
"So what?," you ask? Well, um.... Er....Anyway, after months of not publicly pontificating ("publicly," in the Internet sense thereof), I'm back with a long, wordy essay. The topic is the usual....
View ArticleMy last pontification, corrected
I made some boo-boo's in my last pontification--number and demographic errors. Nothing major. (Cha-dunk! Crash!!) Correction.Let it not be said that I fail to correct my errors, except when I...
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Haley, Flowers, Murphy, more!
All ripped from 45s and 78s in my collection. Click here to hear: Haley, Flowers, Murphy, more!Rock-a-Beatin' Boogie--Gabe Drake w. Maury Laws Orch. (Prom 701)Rock Around the Clock--Phil Flowers, 1962...
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The Hale-Bopp Rag (Lee Hartsfeld, 1997)
Last time, you heard a group of step-recorded rags by yours truly. This time, you'll hear what I sound like playing ragtime "live." The piece in question is my 1997 Hale-Bopp Rag. (Above, you can...
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Sunday Afternoon Concert: Your blogger at the keyboard
A Sunday concert, featuring old and new gospel favorites. Unless, of course, none of these are your favorites. Perhaps you've never thought of them. Or, perhaps, you've thought of them but have as...
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"Ain't We Got Fun," "Swanee," "Sharp Shooting Sheik," "Tico-Tico," and other...
It seems like an eternity since my last 10" 78 rpm post, but it's only been four months. Which, I suppose, would be an eternity to, say, a bug with a two-month life span. Speaking of bugs, I have now...
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Sunday morning shellac--Old Sacred Southern Singers, Peerless Quartet, Bethel...
If you're here for old, old gospel 78s, then you came to the right place. Straight from my collection, and ripped and restored by me, and sorry about the bad copy of the Bethel Jubilee Quartet, but...
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The coolest record ever made: A Sunday Morning Shellac preview!
This is the (Rex) Humbard Family from (I'm guesstimating) the early 1950s. The disc is a Sacred (litearlly, as in the label name) 78 which has endured its share of plays but which yielded decent...
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78s left out in the rain--Ragtime, barbershop, Hugo Winterhalter
As you can see, I left today's 78s out in the rain (second image). Never do that. Luckily, I digitized these prior to the tragedy. And, yes, I'm kidding.But I'm not kidding when I say that today's...
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Sunday morning shellac: Sacred and Sharon label 78s!
Notes Bev, "Some of the most scandal-ridden evangelical crooks operate in California." This came up in a discussion about California and its popular image (hip, ironic) vs. that of the "flyover"...
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Sunday morning shellac--Normal, everyday, popular gospel: 1909-1951
Normal, everyday, popular--these words quite precisely describe the music we're about to hear, all of it ripped from dusty 78s in my collection. (Just kidding--I keep them in sleeves, so they're not...
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Is this the life, or what?
Raul thinks so! And, no, he's not our golf car guard cat, though I'm sure he'd be happy to perform that function if we asked. Not.Raul's brother, Fidel (our lean wisp of a black cat who has shown up...
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Sunday evening gospel--The Laceys: Only the Blood (1991)
The Laceys don't appear to have much of an Internet imprint (is that the word?), and that seems wrong. They were known as "Florida's First Family of Gospel Music," and in a moment you'll hear why....
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My "Lee's Halloween Slaylists" blog logo...
These nearly made it, too, but I finally decided on the previous. Yes, the first and second read, "Lee's Halloween Slaylilsts." I would have corrected them, hopefully....
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