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Louis Prima, "Just A Gigolo". It made me so happy I had to put the youtube link on facebook, accusing some of my chums of thinking Van Halen had done it first.
ThesFlishThngs said:Well they do now.....
chanteuseCarey said:THE BEST!!! Our 13yo son had his very first real piano lesson (albeit a short one-due to a SF gig schedule) with Frederick Hodges today. When we got home our young Daniel played (right hand only) scales and the beginning part of a Fred Astaire tune "I'm Putting All My Eggs on One Basket" Wow, a definite Proud and Happy Mommy Moment.
Fletch said:New Tiger Rag, the only known off-the-air recording from Paul Whiteman's CBS Old Gold show of 1929-30.
ThesFlishThngs said:Yay you! (and the little fella too).
And Yay Fred Astaire; I've got him doing "The Way You Look Tonight" now, which is my favorite version ever.
ThesFlishThngs said:Louis Prima, "Just A Gigolo". It made me so happy I had to put the youtube link on facebook, accusing some of my chums of thinking Van Halen had done it first.
Yes, I was wondering about that myself. You see magazine plans from that era for building radios, even TVs, but none for a recording machine. I assume there was no way a hobbyist could make suitable blanks or styli.LizzieMaine said:I'm thinking, after listening, that this is more likely a recording from Whiteman's "Allied Paint Men" series from 1931. The most likely format for home recording at that time, the Victor pre-grooved disc system, wasn't introduced until October 1930 making it unlikely anyone could have recorded any of the Old Gold broadcasts at home.
Very possibly the same larcenous Schweinhund who nabbed those pre-war TV scripts from Lincoln Center after they turned up in a book bibliography. The name I was given was a guy who had provided source material for several Whiteman and Crosby reissues. [huh]Whiteman broadcast for Allied Paint from January 1931 to January 1932, and a few excerpts from that series are known to exist. Whiteman himself is known to have hired the Green Recording Service in Chicago to make airchecks of the entire series for his own archives, but they are missing from the huge collection of Whiteman discs at Williams College, and it's assumed that they left under someone's overcoat before the collection could be properly inventoried.