Vintage Shellac, Styrene,Vinyl, and Metrolite 78's from the early 1900's to the late 1950's when production stopped for these great records! No CD tracks here. Some may sound a bit grainy or hard to hear sometimes, but hey, they are records and not CD's. I'm here to share my collection, not win a contest. I make no money from this, but I love spending my free time sharing these old tunes and some of the history that goes with it. THANKS FOR WATCHING AND TUNING IN!!! †
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This educational film really demonstrates how records (either shellac or vinyl) were something that designed around mass production. The cost per record can be kept low if the stampers can be used until they are almost worn out. On top of that, the machine that mixes and kneads the shellac is much larger than I expected it to be.
Hey @althazarr , its 11 years later but I see you're still Around (posting new stuff). . . FYI, if interested: I just joined a pro record cutting group. (Not an engineer, just joined the group.) They just shared an article from an unknown date (guessing 1990s??) about a pressing plant called Rainbo Records, which was in operation from 1939 (started making cardboard cereal box 78 rpm records exclusively, then branched out) until, sadly, 4 years ago, in 2020, when the 67 year old owner finally couldn't financially hold out any more , and had to close it. The (1990s?) article showed photos of the original 1930s cardboard pressing machinery, which they kept for a while (thru the 1950s), including a photo of this very DIG record, and of other items like cardboard 78 rpm map records for the opening of Disneyland, also in the 50s. I would send you the article which is fascinating, about the pressing plat's history up to that point, but I don't know how to email you thru youtube. Anyway. That's where the record came from. Since the lettering is identical to the 1950s DIG label issued on normal 45s and 78s, I assume the DIG "magazine" was a publicity thing to sell more records for the label. The DIG label was presented in a 1990s Aladdin Records compilation, as a subsidiary label of Aladdin. I seem to remember DIG records being somehow particularly associated with R&B artist Johnny Otis, but not 100% sure?... I searched youtube to hear it when I saw the picture in the Rainbo article, and found your posting. Thanks!.
Great history of a one hit wonder group that was quite talented and could have gone much further had Buck ram paid more attention to them than the Platters.
Do “vengeance” by the Matadors. Or “Good Morning Judge” or “Bloodshot Eyes “ by Wynonie Harris . Or “You rascal you” by Louis Armstrong and Louis Jordan you’ll get a kick if you haven’t heard these . I love your videos ❤❤❤❤ these days songs are an untapped source for content, don’t stop
I was just listening to, “Do-wah”. It’s rather a strange, almost eerie kind of doo-wop song by a vocal group named, The Spaniels. It was recorded on the Vee-Jay record label company in 1955. I don’t suppose more than a few dozen people in the whole world today remember it. For that matter, I don’t think many people ever heard it at all. It was only played on a few small radio stations. I know this because I spent a lot of time waiting for it to play. Anyway, for me, it’s one of those odd and offbeat songs that appealed and stuck itself into my random access memory. And after all these 60 plus years, it mysteriously rises to the surface of my conscious now and sometimes I find myself singing it tomyself. I can’t really say why, but there it is. Songs usually have an associative memory. “Do-Wah” brings a time-misted but powerful evocation of my early teen self in a particular place at a particular time. A shady front porch in Maplewood, NJ - Summer of 1955 I am sitting on the front porch of my childhood home on a summer day. With me is my 2 years younger brother, some friends and a dog or cat. The porch fronted my Grandmother’s house, where my brother and I were raised. The house was built in the early 1900’s, and set back from the road about 50 feet or so. The porch was the old fashioned kind; about eight feet deep and its width ran across the entire house front. It had big round post columns, connected by rails and balusters all painted white. It was fairly secluded from the road by hedges at the edge of the far side of the lawn. Growing near the house were several varieties of overgrown shrubs and 4 or 5 yrees of different sizes and and kinds. One of the trees was an old plum that arched over the sidewalk leading to the house. I remember that tree especially for the scent of its spring blossoms that smelled like the shampoo that my girlfriend used. We’d sit on the porch on the shady side in the hot weather. There was a hammock and several wicker chairs. There was also a wicker tea wagon. It was my job in spring to bring that Tea Wagon up from the basement, so my grandmother could bring out all her potted plants that she kept going through the winter in our sunny kitchen. Each spring my grandmother would arrange all the plants just so on it. We ran an extension cord out of the living room window to plug in a radio. We waited for our favorite songs to come on. In between, we waited for “really cool” cars to pass by on the then sparsely travelled road in front. Sometimes we’d make always needed repairs or custom alterations on our bikes. “We waited for our favorite songs to come on.”… Think about that for a minute….If you liked a song back then, and that song wasn’t among the top 40 tunes of the time, you had to wait for what seemed like forever to hear it again. Or, you could try buy the record….But since I seemed to find and like a lot of songs that weren’t main stream hits, getting the record was not easy. If I managed to get it at all, it often would take weeks or months. In those days, I bought my records at an old fashioned, “Mom and Pop” store out on the business avenue a few blocks away. It was the kind of store that sold newspapers, cigarettes, cigars, magazines, comic books and an incredible variety of all sorts of things. It had a counter with stools where one could have coffee or just about anything one could want for a quick meal or pick-me up. They served sodas, ice cream, ice cream sodas, malts, burgers, hot dogs, sandwiches and daily specials. Opened at 6AM - closed at 9PM - 6 days a week. Open on Sundays from 7AM until noon. At some point in the early 50’s, the owner added records to the astonishing array of things the store offered. Given the scarcity of space, the record selection was small and limited to top selling tunes. If, like me, you wanted a record that they did not have, you could order it special - and wait…and hope. The store owner went once a month to record distributer in Newark. He brought our special orders with him. Sometimes he was able to get them!! I cannot convey how thrilling it was when I was able to get that record I had been wanting for, for so long. Now, I can not only find such an obscure, barely noticed and long forgotten song, recorded more than 60 years on the internet but I can also almost instantly hear it again…..Even more amazing, more miraculously, I can say to the air: " Alexa - Play Doo-Wah, by the Spaniels ", and there it is!! Who would have ever thought that possible in 1955?
My dad used to bust open the door to the bedroom of me and my sisters and sing this to us. We would laugh and hide under the the blankets…and then poke out our faces, side by side. I miss my pops.
MILTON CROSS >> Narrater<< Was a radio pioneer from the early 2Os. He announced and also sang. From early 30s into 70s je hosted Metropolitian Broadcasts and other mostly classical presentations, nut as ANC annoucer fiillrd pther roles in industry. Beyond that Cross was authority on music as a MUSICOLOGIST snd aitherrd books in 30 thru 60s about 0pera, symphonies, lives of composers etc. And as gou say, viice oversx, etc.
OK, let's play "Mystery Take." V 22800-A supposedly always uses take -1. The brasses play the first chorus in straight mutes. The sax coda goes off just right. Listen: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-001OupOCB1Y.html Here we're hearing take -2, supposedly only issued on the Ellington Centennial CD box. The brasses play the first chorus in bucket mutes. The sax coda kind of staggers. So...do you have a 78 with take -2 in the wax? Or are you using the CD box take? Thanks...
