Christmas Song Collection 2010

[barnettrp21122]

Hello!
I’ve gathered some Christmas recordings from acoustic, electric and Edison Diamond Disks and Blue Amberol cylinders and arranged them in a sort of program in one folder on box.net. You can click on the following link and play them all in sequence if you wish (click on the first tune, and then check the “Auto-play next file” to the right of the “play” button) or play or download them separately. I hope you enjoy them.
Please have a safe and happy holiday season!
Bob
Christmas Collection 2010:
http://www.box.net/shared/pb0au8spab

Separate Files:

Adeste Fideles (John McCormack and Chorus) Victrola 74436
http://www.box.net/shared/qh3a2ema20
Christmas Hymns and Carols-No. 1 (Trinity Choir) Victor 35712-A
http://www.box.net/shared/xczakmi9r8
O Holy Night-Christmas Song (Adam) Frieda Hemple (Edison DD 82171-L)
http://www.box.net/shared/kr4mn3aedu
The Birthday of a King-Christmas Song (Thomas Chalmers and Chorus) Edison BA 2476
http://www.box.net/shared/l1maa4x8v9
Christmas Hymns and Carols-No. 2 (Trinity Choir) Victor 35712-B
http://www.box.net/shared/5u1rfx01jh
Weihnachten (Christmas) E. Humperdinck (Ernestine Schumann-Heink) Victor VE 6723-B
http://www.box.net/shared/3r7i585g4n
Hark, The Herald Angels Sing (Stellar Quartet) Diva 2517-G
http://www.box.net/shared/tlke2ze4ob
Old Jim’s Christmas Hymn (Edward Allen and Chorus) Edison BA 3347
http://www.box.net/shared/k5j4ar1llj
Ring Out The Bells of Christmas (Edison Concert Band and Chorus) Edison BA 2091
http://www.box.net/shared/zzaebr3qtq
Silent Night (Frieda Hemple) Edison DD 82171-R
http://www.box.net/shared/0438ix1z48
Oh! You Silv’ry Bells (Ada Jones and Billy Murray) Edison BA 1800
http://www.box.net/shared/cv217tx3jt
Winter Wonderland (1934) Richard Himber and His Ritz-Carlton Hotel Orchestra, vocal by Joey Nash (VE 24757-B)
http://www.box.net/shared/e9fmdr0uav
Auld Lang Syne (Old Home Singers-Mixed Quartet) Edison DD 80624
http://www.box.net/shared/4t5t4dsoni

[alang]

Those are great. Thanks for sharing.
Andreas

[Valecnik]

Thanks very much! I downloaded them all!

[Edisone]

These are unusually good. Are these from your own collection? What equipment did you use?

Enough questions. Thank you !

[barnettrp21122]

I'm glad you like them! Yes, these are transfers from my own collection, most of them done in the past couple days.
For the discs I use a modern Stanton turntable with variable speed control, annd Stanton 500 cartridge with various 78 styli. I get the most use out of the 2.7 mil elliptical truncated stylus. Another good choice is a 3 mil conical, and sometimes a 4 mil truncated stylus. KAB Electro Acoustics is a good site for more information:
http://www.kabusa.com/frameset.htm?/index.htm
For the cylinders I've acquired an older electric pickup, handmade in the 1980's by John Petty.
Here's a link to more information about that. Mine is the one pictured with the blue background.

http://www.christerhamp.se/phono/petty.html

I use a well-tuned Amberola 50 for running the cylinders.

Many people use "Click-Repair" for transfers, but I've used the Diamond Cut Productions restoration software for years. The latest version is the DC8:
http://www.diamondcut.com/store/index.php

The developers did many transfers for the Edison National Historic Site
many years ago, and several commercially-released CDs are still available.

Enjoy the tunes!
Bob

[Wolfe]

Rats. You didn't include O Come All Ye Faithful - Trinity Choir (Victor 16996) in that bunch.

Thank besides. Happy holidays anyway.

[barnettrp21122]

Rats. You didn't include O Come All Ye Faithful - Trinity Choir (Victor 16996) in that bunch.

Thank besides. Happy holidays anyway.

Can anyone out there help Wolfe?
Bob

[Wolfe]

No help needed.

There's some nicely chosen records you uploaded there. Good stuff, thanks.

[Edisone]

I've put all the above on my mp3 player, to entertain myself at work. Have a little cheapo ($6.32 including postage) folding amplified speaker, to which I attach the player with a couple of rubber bands. Instant micro boombox! The sound is not bad, considering how small and inexpensive it is. Now I have the Magical Musical Christmas Coat, mystifying all who hear ancient tunes following me around. hehe

What are the chances : I was at a historical society event, which included a few old songs performed by local folk-tune guys. One selection was "Low Bridge! Everybody Down!" but I noticed the words didn't seem right. It just so happened that my gizmo was with me, AND it had Ed Meeker singing that song in 1913 ! I played it for the singers, between shows. Never mentioned that the words were changed, I just let them hear it. Their minds were thoroughly boggled @ the pure coincidence, and they did notice the correct words.

I wasn't there for the second performance, to see if they changed the words. ( It's not "15 miles on the Erie Canal", it is "15 YEARS.." - that's how long the character has worked on the canal with his mule, Sal. Ed Meeker used a 'Negro dialect', which also surprised them. No un-PC words, thankfully. Everybody enjoyed the hee-hawing of Sal, near the end of the record.

[Valecnik]

I've put the above to my pc. I have an internet radio/mp3 player attached to my main sound system in the livingroom. We'll be listening to these, along with the one Swingband78 posted in another thread, over the next days.

Btw, great story about "Low Bridge". I learned that song as a kid in grade school. We also sang, "15 mile" not years,. I've not heard the Meeker version. Maybe you can post it.

I've got an Edison recording of "Silent Night". The verse is also different there in 1910 than what we now think of as the standard.