Victor VI - Preacher and the Bear

[gene_ballard]

For your enjoyment. My Victor VI playing The Preacher and the Bear, by Arthur Collins. Composed by Joe Arzonia (1904).

This machine was found in a small town outside Mexico City in 1976. It was brought back to the US, where my grandfather, Gene Ballard, restored her to her original condition. The horn was not found with the machine.

Enjoy...

[youtubehd]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pt7C6ypih4s[/youtubehd]

[Bruce]

Great looking machine. Thanks for sharing

[gene_ballard]

Great looking machine. Thanks for sharing

Thanks, Bruce!

[gramophone78]

Funny, I too bought a Vic.6 out of a small town near Mexico City. Serial # 35* it came with mahogany horn and the old lady had a 24b horn for it.

[Dave]

Looks beautiful..sounds wonderful...I feel lucky to own one too.
Thanks alot for the look-see and the tune.

[Cody K]

A wonderful machine, and sounding great! The record's special to me, too, and it's a treat hearing it. It was one of a couple dozen early Victors that a school chum discovered in a box in back of his mother's couch ca. 1967, when I was twelve or thirteen. We took them all to the VV-220 my parents had picked up for five bucks at some country estate auction, which was doing nothing in our basement. We just thought that The Preacher and the Bear was the funniest song ever! That, and Collins and Harlan's Out in an Automobile...

So this record goes back to my very earliest interest in recordings from the past, and I can't thank you enough for playing it here. How nice to hear it on a nice phonograph of the right period!