I remember listening to Ted Weems" records in 1947 on a Wurlitzer Juke Box and developed a great enchantment for that style of music, and I am glad that I can still hear them. They were 21 years old in 1949, and now they are approaching 100 years. and still sound terrific. Thank you.
....Hey, Donald -- it's great to find that you are still plugged into this wonderful old music. Happy to know you are enjoying my posts, and I wish you many more years of listening pleasure! Thanks for your comment.
....more "Camden sound" here -- in fact, all of these sessions were made at Victor headquarters in NJ. They even seemed to be using a finer grade of shellac -- some of the records are incredibly quiet (for 1920s Victors!). You'll notice a change of room acoustics in the middle group of sides -- the audio is suddenly very spacious and live. Apparently, the engineers were experimenting with recording in a church or public building of some kind. I'm always amazed that the techs would even bother to keep refining the sound and striving to improve if only by small increments, since the Victrolas of that day could barely appreciate a nuanced advancement. I think the improvements were for their own satisfaction -- or, to keep David Sarnoff (the boss) happy!
Your wonderful transfers !! Always good music, you even made possible to listen in a good comfort the Ambrose Decca from 1929 !! My best wishes from Bruxelles, Belgium
@@JCJasion ....yes, I am well aware of the sequence -- sorry I wasn't more precise. The following year when Sarnoff took over, the technologies were developing in high gear. It was all a continuation of the efforts made by the inventors at the Victor Company. And please stop being a rude ass-hole!
Timestamps: Siberia - 0:00 My Cutey's Due At Two-To-Two Today - 3:12 I'm Gonna Park Myself In Your Arms - 5:47 Oh, If I Only Had You - 8:38 Climbing Up The Ladder Of Love - 11:43 She's Got "It" - 14:53 Barbara - 17:34 Miss Annabelle Lee - 20:22 Roam On, My Little Gypsy Sweetheart - 23:16 From Saturday Night Till Monday Morning - 26:22 She'll Never Find A Fellow Like Me - 29:11 It Was Only A Sun Shower - 32:00 Cobble-Stones - 34:55 Marvelous - 37:34 Everybody Loves My Girl - 40:15 Who Wouldn't Be Blue? - 42:52 Nothin' On My Mind - 45:48 He's Tall, Dark And Handsome - 48:52 Flower Of Love - 51:43 If You Want The Rainbow - 54:50 I Found You Out - 57:45 Baby Doll - 1:00:40 Come On, Baby! - 1:03:30
_Dream River_ (a waltz posted at ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-I7QEuj-DEIM.html ) and _He's Tall, Dark and Handsome_ were recorded April 3, 1928, and are surely the first Weems selections arranged by Joe Haymes. He began contributing scores by mail in early 1928 while leading his own band in Springfield, MO, and crafted a new and sophisticated style for the Weems band seemingly overnight. After joining Weems on tour, where he played 2nd piano, celeste and chimes as needed, Haymes left to begin a new band in 1930, billed as "A Ted Weems Unit." He nevertheless continued to arrange for Weems thru at least 1932, even rejoining him for a key engagement at the Hollywood-Roosevelt Hotel. A final stint in 1941-'42 ended when Haymes entered the Army and Weems disbanded to join the Merchant Marine.
I just find myself listening again and again to the first selection, "Siberia." It is so hot compared to anything else by the Weems band: The jazz violin passages and the sound of the bass clarinet in its two brief ''breaks'' are the highlights for me!
It's a rare example of Ted playing solo trombone, never his forte. He was soon to step out front, leaving the trombone chair to Chuck Stenross, Pete Beilmann and Harry Turner among others. Bass clarinet was featured on many early sides by Weems and other bands because it recorded so well acoustically. Walter Livingston (brother of reedman/arranger Fud Livingston) originally played it in the Weems band.
....Thank you, but I am running out of "digital polish" -- it's getting hard to find these days! Years ago I used Benzo on my records, but it clogged the grooves!
@@Prozoot Lol 😆 funny man! Hard to find digital polish any more? You can still get it. They still sell it at Piggley Wiggley. It's just hard to find a Piggley Wiggley these days! 😉 You used Benzo too, back in the day on your records? Smart man. It's basically the same as digital polish but better. A. It's formula has a solvent that softens a records shellac temporarily, making it absorbent to the other ingredients. B. Benzo has scratch inhibitors that soak into the grooves like a sponge, making small high frequency grooves swell up bigger like a wet sponge, so when the BENZO dries, the worn out tiny waves remain bigger and fluffed up, hence louder, increasing the high frequency range approximately 30%. C. A secret blend of a super shellac diamond resin coating adds a thin layer of clear shellac over the pops and needle digs filling them in perfectly, drying super hard as a shiny new record. A quick playing with a new loud tone needle will press the resin into the V shaped walls of the groove, smoothing over every imperfection. All scratches gone! D. The secret formula of BENZO also has proprietary polishing agents that do wonders for the steel needle as well. Once the grooves are filled with BENZO, with one pass (while the record is softened after a two minute wait) the friction of the steel needle tip in the V shaped groove will become polished so well by the BENZO, that by the time the tune has ended, the steel needle not only gleams like silver, but will have been beautifully repointed with a durable new sharp point! Good for 100 plays! In fact, you will never have to change the steel needle again! Just make sure you are playing a BENZO'ed record. It only takes overnight for it to dry. Of course, I don't need to tell you this, as you say, you've been using BENZO on your hot jazz 78s for years! Oh, another thing... When the RCA engineers came out with the improved ribbon microphone in the early thirties, it was no different than the previous induction saucer type mic. The technicians had just discovered BENZO at that same moment, and began applying it to the freshly cut wax masters in the recording studio to boost the treble response by 30%. RCA engineers took all the credit for their new ridiculous mic, but it was BENZO that became the recording industry's best kept secret standard for boosted high fidelity response. BENZO was originally a toothpaste. Invented by a dentist in Alaska. Had a bad case of the shakes, always dropping the victrola needle on the record, leaving all these unseemly clicks. He tried polishing them out with his toothpaste, and it worked miracles! Soon he had a radio show promoting BENZO's amazing ability to declick shellac records, called the DeclickO Club program. Had a dance band. called DeClick-O Club Eskimos. Became such a hit, Ipana toothpaste bought them out in 1925, just to get rights to the swell orchestra! Now that's my story and I'm sticking to it. Now you tell a funny one! 🤪 😋
Love this channel my top music channel on RU-vid thank You for keeping this music alive 20s and 40s big bands are my favorite; so rare to see big bands playing this style so luck I am able to in Los angles were I get to see bands like Alex Mendham playing this style at the cicada club Once again keep on the good work
I collect Edison Diamond Discs. I have it pretty bad, I must have at least five or six hundred... My selection is not nearly half as good as yours though, thank you so much for sharing! I love your whole channel!
In all the years I have been listening to records from the 20s, Ted Weems has always been my favorite. Sometimes it can get a bit pop, for lack of a better word, but then his band strikes up a piece like at 11:23, and you’re transported straight to the automobile filled boulevards of Manhattan. His recordings are always surprising, yet always familiar. Popular melodies with an occasional ‘homage’ to the jazz greats. No wonder he and his band were so popular back in the day. Thanks for uploading once again man!
The technology came along just in time to record this incredible sound. Before 1925 there was no electronic amplifier and subtle sounds were left out. I'm not saying the 20's were a great time to be alive because you're coming out of world war 1 and entering the depression followed by world war 2 but boy that ragtime music comes straight from the choir director.
