If you like 78 RPM records (i.e., music from 1900-1950), Radio Dismuke is hosting the biannual Nauck's Vintage Records Broadcast which covers that whole time period and includes some very rare recordings. You can listen to it here through tomorrow:
Would appreciate any help in identifying this Chinese Pathe 78rpm recording from the late 1930s. Catalogue number is 3500 and it is not listed on Discogs. ☹️
@ProfundumPhoto@vinylrecords@TheVinylApe Thanks for your help on this. More detective work reveals that this was actually the 'B' side. The 'A' side 'Rose, Rose, I Love You' was actually an enormous hit, and this is Yao Lee's first recording of it, from 1940!
'A' side pictured.
The song was later covered by Frankie Laine and was a big hit in the states, too.
Looking for a new #cartridege for my #RecordPlayer
(the "modern" kind this time, not an Edison cylinder!). Wondering if there are fediverse ppl who talk about this sort of thing?
Usually for hobby topics I end up having to go to FB to find people. I'd rather not since FB sucks (both ethically and practically).
I have an old Garrard turntable. It's been pretty nice but the cartridge seems to be broken. Since I play pretty much every kind of record (78/45/LP), I'm looking for advice for a replacement that makes it easy to play both 78's and microgrove records, and works with a standard 0.5" mount.
I've seen a few cartridges that have a stylus that flips over for different needles for 78 or LP. Are those any good? (It's a little hard to find ones for 0.5" mount, but there's a few).
This is an amazing thread from @Deglassco on the history of Black-American recording artists which features artists and bands from the era I've been obsessed with recently - the 1920s and 1930s 😊
Bryan Hoffa is a library audio preservation specialist with the Library of Congress. In this video he shows us how 78rpm records are cleaned and digitized for the LOC. He also shares some interesting variables about the inconsistencies of 78s.
@markwyner I never had #78rpm#vinyl and didn't even know that this exists 🤷🏻♂️ One of my luckiest "mistakes" has been listening to #slayer#45rpm "Hell Awaits" with the "wrong" speed #33rpm. Damn, this Tom Araya still was singing so fast I couldn't unterstand and follow him 🤘🏻🤣
Just as this guy on YouTube does 20 years later: https://m.youtube.com/@at-bv8eq/videos
Have fun listening to "your favorite albums (being played) far slower than they should be played at"! ❤️
Cab Calloway was the first African-American musician to sell a million records from a single and to have a nationally syndicated radio show (per @wikipedia )...
He was only 23 (and already an accomplished band leader) when he recorded his most famous song "Minnie the Moocher" which you can listen to here...