It always drove me crazy that they implied this song was 1928 in the movie when it was actually recorded in 1934! If you know music well, jazz of 1928 had a much different style.
In 1956 I was 10 years old and found a copy of the then brand new book "The Fabulous Phonograph" at our public library. A few weeks later I begged my father to take me to our local Salvation Army Store to see if we could find an old wind up phonograph. Did we find one!! You bet! It was a Victor Orthophonic, model 8-12 as is playing in this video. It was in mint condition and full of late 1920's Victor dance records. The price?? Eat your heart out! $7.00!! I still have it in my collection. But now I have 30'000 78 RPM records - quality stuff - in my collection - here at the mental institution! (Kidding)
Its to bad he does young, he did have a nice voice. This is one of his harder ones to find, never comes up on eBay. I remember I got this in a box of records at a yard sale for 2.00, I couldn't believe it when I got home and found it in there. I looked for years for this one, and there it was
The most haunting song of all - alone with - Somewhere a voice is calling - Ray Noble and the great Al Bowlly - who does not even get a credit n the label.
This song was featured in “The Shining”. I checked Discogs that there were none available. And on eBay, they sold it for $510. This is going to be very expensive. Either that, or I have to get a vinyl LP that contains this song.
Tyler hi, I clean my 78's with a small drop of Palmolive anti bacterial dish liquid, I have a soft brush. I fill a tub with warm water, and take the soft brunch and move in a circular motion with the soapy warm water, then rinse, and dry with a soft cotton cloth. The brush gets in the grooves well and gets rid of all the old grim, cig smoke and junk, mKe a huge difference. Just be careful of the labels My lp's i do the same thing only I uses my finger tips to clean those no brush, and rinse and dry. I been doing this 26 years and I have cleaned thousands of records :)
Wow. Not really knowing The Shining much. I heard this so many times on radio, as an outro, sometime post 9-11 and on for a few years evening political talk show on ABC radio, Batchelor and Alexander. Then finished it with Kate Smith G-B-A.
wow, I had no idea this record would be that hard to find. I would love to get my hands on it, but a bit discouraged to find out it took you 20 years. when did it come out?
Hi Me to it took me a long time These al bowley depression era records are hard to find I forget what I paid for this but it was alot I remember going back and forth bidding and then I got it It's a good clean copy to
Beautiful sound, great voice. Back home in my native Bombay we had probably the best old-fashioned gramophone, HMV model 130 with an abolutely exquisite sound-box. Thanks for sharing your very special record!!!
We all know this from the movie as stated. But, it the flick they had it in 20's - and those of us who knew - knew that it was a l930's sound .........Nice find..! .
@@GRINHELL He is starring in a rerun of Justice 1970's drama with Margaret Lockwood on British television on Thursday nights - talking pictures channel
This song is great...i am amazed this is 100 years ago...wow...My Dad grew up in this era...i gotten to like even more...This is when music was music...Music was Music all the way to 1999...Than The Minumam ended it.....2021 there is nothing now...thanks for the post..and you tube for keeping great music alive!!!
Sweet looking Victrola. I have a 1929 model very similar to yours. Great Al Bowlly tune as well!...ok I just saw the long shot...yours is a taller model than mine.
You know, all the modern CD releases of this recording feature the version processed for Kubrick's film--there's this mysterious sounding hollow echo added to the vocals. I really wanted to hear the original record to know if it was recorded that way--I was sure it was not! but wanted to be certain. Yep, it wasn't. This sounds so much better!
Wow... I just love your phonograph, old fashioned and I love it... I hope you pass this on to your children and your children would appreciate this beautiful gift...
markjroberts43 I also have my Victor VV 8-4 which was slightly different than this one, but the turntable itself is the same with the placeholder on the left, and the whole cabinet is different.
So beautiful and this wonderful singer was killed during world war II . What a sad thing to have happened but his songs will be with us forever ..thank you for posting . Den
The 24700 Victor now tops $300. to purchase when you can find one. After downloading the song I had it copied onto a 78 to play on my Wurlitzer. Cost was $115 for both sides - did the Andrew's Sisters Bugle Boy on the reverse. Not cheap but a clean copy for less than an original.
I know there is a copy on eBay now for 170.00 and still has 9 hours left I have not seen a copy since I bought mine till today when I spotted the one on eBay
Your player is going a bit fast for this song, assuming Kubrick had it on the money for the movie. It should be roughly a semitone lower. This does almost perfectly match how the song sounds when The Shining is played in Europe on TV due to the speedup to match the frame rate, though.
You could always commission somebody with a record cutter to cut a copy for you. it is usually about a 5 times less to get a double sided record with whatever songs you want on it than an original.
Mimmi L I would suggest looking on ebay for Al Bowlly music but it will be hard to find this record, but there’s plenty of other records of his, and what you need to play them is a record player with 78 RPM and a 3mil diamond stylus.
I love the offset turntable and room for a record rest, just like the 8-30. Very thoughtful of Victor. Beautiful machine, beautiful record. Hard to believe your sound quality of 12 years ago. Thanks for sharing.
I have dozens of Al Bowley / Ray Nobel records that I bought in the 1950s and 60s at our local Salvation Army Store - for 10 cents apiece!! Just had to rub it in!!
@@jimmyobrien4867 No you're not supposed to play it on a vintage machine. Play it on modern equipment and it sounds way better. Playing a record that can sell for over 800 dollars on a phonograph from the 20's or 30's is foolish
