Favorite demo records?

[Swing Band Heaven]

Here is the cylinder version....
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klcJZE30XgI[/youtube]

I assume dubbed from the disk version...

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QN35V8Zzag[/youtube]

Of course youtube doesn't do it justice at all....far better in person.

[52089]

The Diamond Disc you posted was 82241 from 1921. Here's the 1917 version on 84001:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grPz1-BhvQ0[/youtube]

To my ears it sounds like 84001 was used for the dub to cylinder.

[Lucius1958]

The Diamond Disc you posted was 82241 from 1921. Here's the 1917 version on 84001:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grPz1-BhvQ0[/youtube]

To my ears it sounds like 84001 was used for the dub to cylinder.

According to what I gather from Dethlefson, RPA #29006 was released about June 1918: therefore you're probably right.

Bill

[Lucius1958]

Although I don't usually give demonstrations, I figure I'd throw in a few:

For 2 minute cylinders, I might choose Edison #9777, "Teddy Bears' Picnic"; for Blue Amberols, #2377, "Down Home Rag"; for Diamond Discs, perhaps #50099, "Carnival of Venice / Valse Arabesque" or #51213, "Marche Slave / Chicago Tribune March".

For acoustic 78s, I would likely choose some early '20s Brunswicks ( I just love the recording quality on those)....

Bill

[52089]

Thanks for the interesting and varied responses! Keep 'em coming!

Here are my thoughts:

I tend to prefer lighter fare for demos.

Cylinders - my current 2M fave is Ada Jones "Ive Got Rings on My Fingers" on an Indestructible. Arthur Fields "Everybody Loves a Jass Band" is a great Blue Amberol to play.

Diamond Discs - pretty much any Jones and Hare. One of my friends' kids keeps asking me to play "the porcupine song" for him (that's "As a Porcupine Pines for Its Pork"), but my personal favorite is In the Little Red School House.

On the Orthophonic, it's going to be a Benny Goodman "small group" record, especially "Oh, Lady Be Good" or "Body and Soul", even if they're a bit "later" than is strictly proper.

And while I wouldn't make any non-Opera fan sit through entire arias, I will definitely play part of a good Caruso record on the acoustic Victrola, just to watch people's jaws drop open on the sheer force of the high notes.

[epigramophone]

Some time ago I heard a Diamond Disc entitled "Third Alarm" which included some amazing fire engine sound effects.

It would be a perfect demonstrator, but I do not know the serial number or who performed it, and I have been unable to find it on YouTube.

Perhaps some lucky person on this forum has a copy

[OrthoSean]

Edison 52623 is the "Third Alarm March" by the Goldman Band. Recorded in August 1928. Being an electric DD, I bet it's loud. It's entirely possible that I have a copy, I have one of theirs, but I'm not sure which one!

Sean

[VintageTechnologies]

Some time ago I heard a Diamond Disc entitled "Third Alarm" which included some amazing fire engine sound effects.

It would be a perfect demonstrator, but I do not know the serial number or who performed it, and I have been unable to find it on YouTube.

Perhaps some lucky person on this forum has a copy

If you liked "Third Alarm" then you might also enjoy "Fire" on Edison by Earl Oliver's Jazz Babies (Harry Reser). It can be heard on YouTube. A sad irony was that the vocalist, Tom Stacks, acutally died in a fire a few years later. The blaze happened where he was performing and he died trying to retrieve his drums.

[epigramophone]

I have just listened to it and am impressed with both the performance and the reproduction from the Brunswick Ultona. The uncredited clarinettist sounded like Ted Lewis, but as far as I know he never played with the Earl Oliver band.

I will now wait patiently for someone to post the Third Alarm March.

[VintageTechnologies]

I have just listened to it and am impressed with both the performance and the reproduction from the Brunswick Ultona. The uncredited clarinettist sounded like Ted Lewis, but as far as I know he never played with the Earl Oliver band.

Possibly the clarinet player was Larry Abbott. He was playing with with this band during the short time it recorded a number of records for Edison. I found the following information on YouTube in reference to another Edison recording:

This is one of Harry Reser's 16 recordings made for Edison from February 1926 to January 1927 under the pseudonym of Earl Oliver's Jazz Babies. The name might have been suggested by Oliver himself to Reser & Charles Edison.

Here's the personnel:
Harry Reser (bjo,u,vln) dir: Earl Oliver (tp), Sammy Lewis (tb), Larry Abbott (cl,as,ts), Jimmy Johnston (bsx), Bill Wirges (p,arr) & Tom Stacks (d,v,sound effects).
Recorded in New York, February 15, 1926.
Issued on Edison Diamond Disc 51745.