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Re: What are some of your favorite home recordings in your collection?
Posted: Thu Jun 10, 2021 11:24 pm
by travisgreyfox
Re: What are some of your favorite home recordings in your collection?
Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2021 10:30 am
by melvind
Re: What are some of your favorite home recordings in your collection?
Posted: Fri Jun 11, 2021 8:57 pm
by travisgreyfox
Those are really cool Daniel, I especially liked the Christmas greetings one.
Re: What are some of your favorite home recordings in your collection?
Posted: Mon Jun 21, 2021 11:28 am
by grampaphone
I found this home recording several years ago and popped it onto YT just for fun -
https://youtu.be/wVjJ5EyXuOc.
[YouTube]
https://youtu.be/wVjJ5EyXuOc[/YouTube]
This is a home recording from Nov. 13, 1943 of a Spanish American War veteran playing the piano. The narrator states that this fellow has 4 sons in WWII, one is a German prisoner of war. "Doug. Well, I figure this record is to add to my collection. This number is being played by a 66 year old Spanish American War Veteran who has 4 sons in the foreign service, one of them a prisoner with the Germans. He is now going to play the Memphis Blues and Wabash Blues on one side and the other side Waiting for the Robert E. Lee. At the end of the record, he says he is down in Tyler, Texas. The piano player may be D. B. Forrest.
Re: What are some of your favorite home recordings in your collection?
Posted: Mon Jun 21, 2021 10:45 pm
by Lucius1958
grampaphone wrote: Mon Jun 21, 2021 11:28 am
I found this home recording several years ago and popped it onto YT just for fun -
https://youtu.be/wVjJ5EyXuOc.
[YouTube]
https://youtu.be/wVjJ5EyXuOc[/YouTube]
This is a home recording from Nov. 13, 1943 of a Spanish American War veteran playing the piano. The narrator states that this fellow has 4 sons in WWII, one is a German prisoner of war. "Doug. Well, I figure this record is to add to my collection. This number is being played by a 66 year old Spanish American War Veteran who has 4 sons in the foreign service, one of them a prisoner with the Germans. He is now going to play the Memphis Blues and Wabash Blues on one side and the other side Waiting for the Robert E. Lee. At the end of the record, he says he is down in Tyler, Texas. The piano player may be D. B. Forrest.
Interesting! He may have been born before the phonograph was even invented!
And he's a great piano player: could he have played professionally in dance halls or silent movie houses back in the day?
- Bill
Re: What are some of your favorite home recordings in your collection?
Posted: Tue Jun 22, 2021 9:48 am
by grampaphone
That is a good question, he is a very talented piano player. All I know is what is on the record. His name is somewhat garbled and hard to ascertain. And in 1943 he would have been in his 60s (?) since he fought in the Spanish American war which was in 1898 maybe as young as 16 years old. So his sons in the service during WWII would have probably been at least 30-40 years old in 1943, not the typical young men in the army. But all I know is what is recorded which is very entertaining.
Re: What are some of your favorite home recordings in your collection?
Posted: Tue Jul 13, 2021 7:37 am
by Orchorsol
Here are a couple of attempts at recording a voice letter by a couple in Brighton in the mid/late 1930s - and the reverse of one of the discs:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r84pfO40x6M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7igKVHRz2k
And here's a great BBC radio program about private recordings:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b00767cc