As a native French speaker, I didn’t actually find it creepy or weird at all. This song is literally French culture. This is actually a song that would put me to sleep. Every one knows this song here in Quebec, Canada. Actually, lots of people here consider Clair de Lune by Debussy a rip-off of Au-Clair de la Lune because of their similar names. Any way, I translated the lyrics from French to English just so it doesn’t sound like total gibberish: In the moonlight, my friend Pierrot. Lend me your pen, to write a text. My candle is dead, the fire is out. Open your door to me, for god’s sake. Under the moonlight Pierrot answered: “I have no pens I'm in my bed, go to the neighbour's house I believe she’ll be ok because in her kitchen there is a lighter.” Under the moonlight gentle Lubin knocks on the brunette's door, she answers suddenly “who knocks this way?” He then says: “open your door for me for God's sake.” It’s kind of a poem so it’s hard to translate but there it is!
Furthermore, the earliest known recording of a song is someone (probably, Scott de Martinville) singing 'Au-Clair de la Lune'. It was made in 1860, 17 years before Thomas Edison invented the tinfoil Phonograph.
Very interesting. My oldest record in my rather small collection of 500 Lps. is one of the first Columbia records issued in 1948. It is the Piano concerto in A Minor by Edward Grieg. Oscar Levant with the Philharmonic-symphony orchastra of New Yor conducted by Efrem Kurtz. Record No. ML4028 non.breakable. It belonged to my late father and believe it or not, it is in pristine condition and sounds very well. It just shows what I have always said: vinyl and shellac records are the ONLY eternal format. All others have a very limited life, no mstter how good you take care of them. Best wishes and greetings from Colombia.
Nice! General rule of thumb: one play per side. In this era, the records were formulated to grind/shape the steel point to their unique selves. A second play is risky; a third, and you're trashing your record with a mini chisel, even if it feels sharp. If you play one record with a needle, and then play a different record with that same needle, record #2 is being trashed. Yes, this is much too fast. Move the regulator all the way toward you, and perhaps move it up slightly. Most antique phonograph collectors agree that you should wind up the spring with brake off, counter-intuitive as it may be. Also, if I may slightly contradict another comment, unless the machine is going to be stored for a long tiime, do NOT let the spring wind all the way down, just most of the way. Going from zero tension to complete tension is very hard on the spring, and you risk breakage.
Imagine if we had the conspiracy-theory loons of the 1970s and 1980s, listening to this backwards to see if it had 'satanic' lyrics..... I know, that sounds silly today, but it was a thing.
I recall Au Clair de Lune was the first recorded song by Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville on his test project 1860s but the recording wasn't heard till 2000s.
Before 1925 I read a lot of the Victor records ran at 76.59 rpm. Maybe try that speed and see how it sounds. Also if you can try an eq Turnover 629 and Rolloff -8 to -12 for turntable setups with a way to adjust it. Maybe it won`t be as scary sounding.
The label is a typical size for this era...you are more correct when you say they vary in size. I saw your video featuring a much later Red Seal record and made a similar statement about 78 rpm records having smaller labels. That smaller label was typical for records made in the 1940s and on. Yes, everyone here is correct about it running way too fast. Geraldine Farrar would have been a bit horrified by this, too.
I didn't think this was scary at all. It sounds pleasant. Coincidentally, the 1st song (& one of the 1st ever recordings) ever recorded was Au-Clair de la Lune being sang by Edouard Leon Scott De Martinville. Very interesting. If you want something creepy sounding & old, early Edison Paraffin Wax Cylinders sound haunted & distorted.
I used to work for a Goodwill store, and I ended up losing my job because I fished a record out of their dumpster. I was emptying trash when I noticed one of the old record 'albums' in there. I dug it out, and discovered several more shellac records. They had been thrown in the trash by the people who actually sort through the donations, so these were legitimately discarded. Anyway, according to Goodwill rules, that was a big no-no, and I got fired for it. No regrets, though. Turned out one of the records was from 1919. 'Til We Meet Again'. While not particularly 'valuable', there was no way I was going to let a century old record end up in the landfill. ACOUSTICALLY recorded, mind you. As in, no electronics at all. ua-cam.com/video/B2yxudF2Sa8/v-deo.html Disclaimer: This is not my video, nor my individual record, but it IS the same tune and recording.
it does sound deranged for sure but its great to have an authentic 78 this old! the label is beautiful anyway as is the player, thanks for sharing and stay safe.
I should imagine this is exactly how someone is going to feel when they play an Elton John Record,on a suitcase player,in 107 years time.....The Thought sends shivers down me spine !! ...Great Vid....Ade
May you play it on vinyl turntable as a backup. Because electric pickup has better frequency response and you can record it with your laptop. The record before 1918 is mechanical recording after that it is electrical assisted. So that all the musicians don't neet to squeeze them self Infront of a mechanical horn. Au Clair de Lune is actually the first song recorded. It was recorded on a paper by a French researcher in mid 1800, who use needle and ink. And in 2009 there are sound engineer recover the recorded sound from the paper.
I worked with one of Geraldine's descendants. Forty years ago I worked with a guy (last name Farrar) and I asked him one time if he was related to Geraldine Farrar. He said he was. I gave him one of her records.
The oldest "recording" known is that same song. It was recorded on paper in the 1860's and for years there was no way to play it back until someone figured out it could be read digitally and while it's more noise than sound, you can hear the voice that made the recording. The recorder was known as the Phonautograph and was patented in 1857. Here's a link to the video of it on youtube I found a few years ago. ua-cam.com/video/-0H8Q4QD-cM/v-deo.html
This was so cool to see! I absolutely love old stuff like this. Also glad i found your channel, I'm just now getting into record collecting and your videos have been sooo helpful in learning about it!
At a guess, I'd say this was record was recorded at about 70rpm or even lower. Try playing this at the optional X.75 speed available by clicking on the gearwheel symbol toward the lower right edge of this video.
I have many of these 100+ Victor Records in my collection...started collecting back in 1963...the thrift stores had shelf fulls of these vintage classics! Have the Victrolas to play them on as well. Played way too fast!!!! 78 RPM was the usual speed, Columbia records at 80 RPM.
My oldest records date to 1901. some pre-dog Victors and Climax Columbias and a brown wax concert cylinder (these cylinders are huge and I don’t have a player for it) also from 1901. It would be nice to have some 1890s recordings but I’m too cheap and can’t bring myself to pay more than $25-$30+ for just one record. Probably why I don’t have any Berliners, Zon-o-phones, Improved Johnson labels, Paramount blues, Black Swans, Black Patti, Early rock n roll 78s, ect.
Any spring driven device should be fully unwound if it is not going to be used all the time. The spring has probably lost some of it's tension from age although those old phonograph springs packed quite a wallop, but leaving it wound for a long time when not in use will cause the spring to take a set and lose even more of its tension. It doesn't matter if it is a phonograph, a large music box from that era or even a small music box in a jewelry case, if it runs on a spring and will not be used often let it fully unwind before you shut it down.
Fair sounding and very clean 78, with a sleeve type that I have yet to come across. Good video overall, and my oldest record I just got the other day for Christmas, it’s a Columbia disc record from 1901 with the title of “Back Yard Conversation (Between Two Irish-Washerwomen)”, a comedic recording, and interesting to own.
This record played TOO FAST, with Chipmunks kid record effect. On modern player set for 78. On vintage machine like this one look around turntable rim when moden player 33 45 78 control would be
These take 3 common forms: 1, A knurled knob when turned while playing record speeds or slows. 2, A clock type lever that Speed /Slows player looking like S-------F or -____+ or in foreign like Pathe letter of language meaning Slow Fast. 3, on high$ VICTORS there is an actual small "speedometer" that behind "glass" with a needle shows speed* set by a small knob below. *Some of these have just lines like / on dial, others numbers on some or most. Many have a (often faded) RED MARK at "official" 78 speed. Don't take markings too literal, wear makes inaccurate, kissy adjust while record playing. A few VICTORS, from European masters have play at 80 on label, also 8O rpm was Edison & Columbia speed, a reason why most machines had stepless adjustment, particularly because even if the werent like show machine for both lateral and vertical playing 3td party adapters were sold. Note also from 1904 to end of the acoustica era, cabinet VICTORS have clearance for 14" inch records AND 6O rpm speed controls to play them, even though made for only a year
One last comment, Stepless speed adjustment dual turntables are made today allowing Disco DJs to keep-the-beat when cross-fading from one turn table to the other, the DJ matches speed of 'incoming' disk to match BeatRate of outgoing disc. Pitch is affected, but in Disco Bray is top factor. Anyway after switch made, process repeated creating effect of one long song.
You played it too fast at the wrong rpm and it result a wrong key , this song is a well knowed French comptines , like Marry had a little lamb for English folks , we learn it even before elementary school, what make this creepy is they use too much vibrato wich was a popular opera singer technic back then but at the good speed it should be fine.
It's admittedly not a great recording, even by acoustic recording standards. I think it is a slower song really, and they may have been singing it up-tempo to try and fit it into the time available on the record. To be honest, I've heard better songs recorded on wax cylinders which are even older than this record. Thanks for sharing.
This music was used as the theme song in the movie The Bad Seed. The little girl played it as her piano piece. This was a very fine movie,but very disturbing. 1950's black and white. John.
When i was very young my Grandparents used to have an old record player that played 78 RPM records, and i used to listen to them as a very little boy, i found them interesting at the time, and it is true that they can be haunting to listen to, for instance the single of Quentin's Theme from the summer of 1968 was composed to sound like an old Edison cylinder recording from 1897, if you remember the show Dark Shadows, that's where it was played most of the time, in the show's storyline, and it did have that haunting quality to it, if you listen to it.
what's significant about 1913 is that that's the last year before they changed the design on the label, yours has the "Batwing" design that was used from 1914 to 1926, so is it possible this is a 1914 pressing of the record?
Crazy. Several years ago, I bought a Victrola and of ALL the records that could have been in it, I found a K.K.K. record. Yikes. Sold it a few weeks later for $75.00.
I'll be quite honest, the record did sound creepy, but it's history when you approach it that way, and it was of great interest in that historic sense, i mean think about it, the record was recorded 104 years ago, that is amazing and haunting at the same time.
The record grooves will eventually wear out playing the record with an iron needle and such as heavy tone arm? And couldn't better sound come from a modern 78 player?
I collecting old recordings like this in my record collection some of them i have is from early 1900's i have one from 1901 which is one of my earliest recordings but I do like to listen to them i know there creepy but for my record collection I like them.
"Utterly horrific"?? Ummm... okay. Maybe this song is somehow tied into some repressed childhood trauma of yours? Can't understand otherwise what your problem is with it.
It sounds a little fast to me. Slowing it down a little bit may make it sound a little less scary.
These classical discs were recorded at more about 74 RPM
As a native French speaker, I didn’t actually find it creepy or weird at all. This song is literally French culture. This is actually a song that would put me to sleep. Every one knows this song here in Quebec, Canada. Actually, lots of people here consider Clair de Lune by Debussy a rip-off of Au-Clair de la Lune because of their similar names. Any way, I translated the lyrics from French to English just so it doesn’t sound like total gibberish:
In the moonlight, my friend Pierrot. Lend me your pen, to write a text. My candle is dead, the fire is out. Open your door to me, for god’s sake.
Under the moonlight
Pierrot answered:
“I have no pens
I'm in my bed,
go to the neighbour's house
I believe she’ll be ok
because in her kitchen
there is a lighter.”
Under the moonlight
gentle Lubin
knocks on the brunette's door,
she answers suddenly
“who knocks this way?”
He then says:
“open your door for me
for God's sake.”
It’s kind of a poem so it’s hard to translate but there it is!
THANK YOU for sharing this!
Record-ology you’re welcome!
Furthermore, the earliest known recording of a song is someone (probably, Scott de Martinville) singing 'Au-Clair de la Lune'.
It was made in 1860, 17 years before Thomas Edison invented the tinfoil Phonograph.
thanks for the comment and I agree with you.
Thank you, That is lovely.
Very interesting. My oldest record in my rather small collection of 500 Lps. is one of the first Columbia records issued in 1948. It is the Piano concerto in A Minor by Edward Grieg. Oscar Levant with the Philharmonic-symphony orchastra of New Yor conducted by Efrem Kurtz. Record No. ML4028 non.breakable. It belonged to my late father and believe it or not, it is in pristine condition and sounds very well. It just shows what I have always said: vinyl and shellac records are the ONLY eternal format. All others have a very limited life, no mstter how good you take care of them. Best wishes and greetings from Colombia.
My oldest album is "South Pacific" original Broadway cast with Mary Martin and Ezio Pinza from 1949. ML 4180. It sounds amazingly good.
Nice! General rule of thumb: one play per side.
In this era, the records were formulated to grind/shape the steel point to their unique selves. A second play is risky; a third, and you're trashing your record with a mini chisel, even if it feels sharp. If you play one record with a needle, and then play a different record with that same needle, record #2 is being trashed.
Yes, this is much too fast. Move the regulator all the way toward you, and perhaps move it up slightly.
Most antique phonograph collectors agree that you should wind up the spring with brake off, counter-intuitive as it may be.
Also, if I may slightly contradict another comment, unless the machine is going to be stored for a long tiime, do NOT let the spring wind all the way down, just most of the way. Going from zero tension to complete tension is very hard on the spring, and you risk breakage.
Most acoustic Victors were recorded closer to 76 RPM but I would think your regulator is off as that is WAY too fast
Fun fact, this song was in the first human voice EVER recorded
Imagine if we had the conspiracy-theory loons of the 1970s and 1980s, listening to this backwards to see if it had 'satanic' lyrics.....
I know, that sounds silly today, but it was a thing.
Well, you have the whole "number 9, number 9" = "turn me on dead man" thing with the Beatles....
@@Recordology Oh, my.... how on earth could I have forgotten THAT?!
I recall Au Clair de Lune was the first recorded song by Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville on his test project 1860s but the recording wasn't heard till 2000s.
Not to be rude but for starters it is on the wrong speed. The speed should be 78 RPM.
Kind Regards,
TM.
Before 1925 I read a lot of the Victor records ran at 76.59 rpm. Maybe try that speed and see how it sounds. Also if you can try an eq Turnover 629 and Rolloff -8 to -12 for turntable setups with a way to adjust it. Maybe it won`t be as scary sounding.
The label is a typical size for this era...you are more correct when you say they vary in size. I saw your video featuring a much later Red Seal record and made a similar statement about 78 rpm records having smaller labels. That smaller label was typical for records made in the 1940s and on.
Yes, everyone here is correct about it running way too fast. Geraldine Farrar would have been a bit horrified by this, too.
The Springfields (with Dusty Springfield) used this tune for "Say I Won't Be There", a big hit in 1963
For a 107 year old record the music is still gorgeous like it was in 1913
There is a hole in the front because 78s are packaged like that.
I didn't find it scary lol.
Nor did I.
I didn’t either I found it very beautiful of what was played.@@Tadfafty
Obviously too fast
Recorded on March 17, 1913.
Most pre-1924 Victors were cut at 76.25. You were playing it too sharp.
This is a great song and record player
I actually thought the singing was pretty good.
You need to calibrate your playback speed! I think it's going at at least 90 rpm. Slow it down!!
It makes the singers sound like Chip n Dale.
Yep just like a lot of the comments said that is a tad fast
I honestly don't hear anything scary.
Geraldine Farrar!
Awesome
I didn't think this was scary at all. It sounds pleasant. Coincidentally, the 1st song (& one of the 1st ever recordings) ever recorded was Au-Clair de la Lune being sang by Edouard Leon Scott De Martinville. Very interesting.
If you want something creepy sounding & old, early Edison Paraffin Wax Cylinders sound haunted & distorted.
Yes those are amazing.
the pitch IS WAY 2 fast
THE RPM'S ARE TOO HIGH (TOO FAST). IT WAS RECORDED AT MUCH SLOWER THAN THE SPEED YOU ARE PLAYING IT. PLAY IT AT THE RIGHT SPEED AND IT'LL SOUND FINE.
Wow that's just too weird. 107 years old, now that's cool.
I used to work for a Goodwill store, and I ended up losing my job because I fished a record out of their dumpster. I was emptying trash when I noticed one of the old record 'albums' in there. I dug it out, and discovered several more shellac records. They had been thrown in the trash by the people who actually sort through the donations, so these were legitimately discarded. Anyway, according to Goodwill rules, that was a big no-no, and I got fired for it.
No regrets, though. Turned out one of the records was from 1919. 'Til We Meet Again'. While not particularly 'valuable', there was no way I was going to let a century old record end up in the landfill.
ACOUSTICALLY recorded, mind you. As in, no electronics at all.
ua-cam.com/video/B2yxudF2Sa8/v-deo.html
Disclaimer: This is not my video, nor my individual record, but it IS the same tune and recording.
It sounds like ABBA.
I don't hear a bad sound
It needs to be remastered to CD using original master tapes. lol
They didn't have master tapes in 1913. Everything was still recorded directly to records.
Sounds like an old Disney movie to me. Not creepy at all.
French Canadians =/= Paris French
speed seems wrong~
How was this scary it just a simple classical song it not that bad
it does sound deranged for sure but its great to have an authentic 78 this old! the label is beautiful anyway as is the player, thanks for sharing and stay safe.
Thanks for listening
Too fast!
I just got two shellac records and I don't know if turntables from the 1970's with 78 rpm for a third option can play it
i actually heard it the way it was supposed to be and it's much slower, and it's actually beautiful.
I thought it sounded a little fast.
I should imagine this is exactly how someone is going to feel when they play an Elton John Record,on a suitcase player,in 107 years time.....The Thought sends shivers down me spine !! ...Great Vid....Ade
Agreed! Thank you sir!
Shiver me timbers
Your machine sounded like it was set about 83, to 85 Rpms. Try playing it at 78 Rpms.
Could be
This is a French song and not only that I think you played it at the wrong speed
Just played waaaaay too fast. Ancestors of the Chipmunks .... or Smurphs if you're European.
hahahahaahahahaha
I thought we were going to hear Debussy's Claire de Lune... Oh well, after all it's the old lullaby song...
May you play it on vinyl turntable as a backup. Because electric pickup has better frequency response and you can record it with your laptop.
The record before 1918 is mechanical recording after that it is electrical assisted. So that all the musicians don't neet to squeeze them self Infront of a mechanical horn.
Au Clair de Lune is actually the first song recorded. It was recorded on a paper by a French researcher in mid 1800, who use needle and ink. And in 2009 there are sound engineer recover the recorded sound from the paper.
I got the same vibe from it. I have a few 78s that scare the wits out of me. From 1919
i too have some. I have a ukulele Diamond Disc that scares the shit outta me.
I worked with one of Geraldine's descendants. Forty years ago I worked with a guy (last name Farrar) and I asked him one time if he was related to Geraldine Farrar. He said he was. I gave him one of her records.
Wow
The oldest "recording" known is that same song. It was recorded on paper in the 1860's and for years there was no way to play it back until someone figured out it could be read digitally and while it's more noise than sound, you can hear the voice that made the recording. The recorder was known as the Phonautograph and was patented in 1857. Here's a link to the video of it on youtube I found a few years ago. ua-cam.com/video/-0H8Q4QD-cM/v-deo.html
I have a few spooky ones their great to play on Halloween XD
Sounds like your player might be a little more haunted than the disk if it's suddenly starting up on its own. :-)
This was so cool to see! I absolutely love old stuff like this. Also glad i found your channel, I'm just now getting into record collecting and your videos have been sooo helpful in learning about it!
Awesome! Thank you!
SAME! I OWN A 1953 RECORD! AND A RETRO SQUARE TV! ALSO, I HAVE THE MOTOROLA DYNATAC FROM 1984!
I don't understand. What was terrifying about that?
The very first recording of au Claire de lune is far more terrifying like the one from the 1860s
The voice sounds like they were doing a vibrato. Possibly a common practice when the recording was made.
At a guess, I'd say this was record was recorded at about 70rpm or even lower. Try playing this at the optional X.75 speed available by clicking on the gearwheel symbol toward the lower right edge of this video.
The speed was not right. Too fast by a quarter. I actually liked the song at the right speed, but was intrigued by your speedy version.
If you play 78'S often enough,on those crappy old phonos, you will end up with having a collection of crappy old records.
I have many of these 100+ Victor Records in my collection...started collecting back in 1963...the thrift stores had shelf fulls of these vintage classics! Have the Victrolas to play them on as well. Played way too fast!!!! 78 RPM was the usual speed, Columbia records at 80 RPM.
Bit fast. Don't reuse steel needles, they turn into tiny chisels that will cut your grooves away
I checked the speed of your turntable. I measured 85 rpm! Why?😅
Looks & sounds like you're playing it at 107rpm
How was that scary?
My oldest records date to 1901. some pre-dog Victors and Climax Columbias and a brown wax concert cylinder (these cylinders are huge and I don’t have a player for it) also from 1901. It would be nice to have some 1890s recordings but I’m too cheap and can’t bring myself to pay more than $25-$30+ for just one record. Probably why I don’t have any Berliners, Zon-o-phones, Improved Johnson labels, Paramount blues, Black Swans, Black Patti, Early rock n roll 78s, ect.
Awesome....
I have an entire box of these for sale if anyone wants them. There's 63. One is even a brown vinyl. Most of them still have their original sleeves
All the same song?? wow
i got a record from 1908
Any spring driven device should be fully unwound if it is not going to be used all the time. The spring has probably lost some of it's tension from age although those old phonograph springs packed quite a wallop, but leaving it wound for a long time when not in use will cause the spring to take a set and lose even more of its tension. It doesn't matter if it is a phonograph, a large music box from that era or even a small music box in a jewelry case, if it runs on a spring and will not be used often let it fully unwind before you shut it down.
Also true for stringed instruments
I now want to see how he reacts to Berliner Gramophone discs 😂
Edit: also with the oldest record, my oldest wax cylinder dates from February of 1902
Is it a brown wax or already a black wax?
@@oldradiosnphonographs its the first black wax cylinder issue, number 8003, "Uncle Josh and the Fire department"
Fair sounding and very clean 78, with a sleeve type that I have yet to come across. Good video overall, and my oldest record I just got the other day for Christmas, it’s a Columbia disc record from 1901 with the title of “Back Yard Conversation (Between Two Irish-Washerwomen)”, a comedic recording, and interesting to own.
This record played TOO FAST, with Chipmunks kid record effect. On modern player set for 78.
On vintage machine like this one look around turntable rim when moden player 33 45 78 control would be
These take 3 common forms:
1, A knurled knob when turned while playing record speeds or slows.
2, A clock type lever that
Speed /Slows player
looking like
S-------F or -____+
or in foreign like
Pathe letter of
language meaning
Slow Fast.
3, on high$ VICTORS there
is an actual small
"speedometer" that
behind "glass" with
a needle shows
speed* set by a
small knob below.
*Some of these have just lines like / on dial, others numbers on some or most. Many have a (often faded) RED MARK at "official" 78 speed.
Don't take markings too literal, wear makes inaccurate, kissy adjust while record playing.
A few VICTORS, from European masters have play at 80 on label, also 8O rpm was Edison & Columbia speed, a reason why most machines had stepless adjustment, particularly because even if the werent like show machine for both lateral and vertical playing 3td party adapters were sold.
Note also from 1904 to end of the acoustica era, cabinet VICTORS have clearance for 14" inch records AND 6O rpm speed controls to play them, even though made for only a year
One last comment,
Stepless speed adjustment dual turntables are made today allowing Disco DJs to
keep-the-beat
when cross-fading from one turn table to the other, the DJ matches speed of 'incoming' disk to match BeatRate of outgoing disc. Pitch is affected, but in Disco Bray is top factor. Anyway after switch made, process repeated creating effect of one long song.
You played it too fast at the wrong rpm and it result a wrong key , this song is a well knowed French comptines , like Marry had a little lamb for English folks , we learn it even before elementary school, what make this creepy is they use too much vibrato wich was a popular opera singer technic back then but at the good speed it should be fine.
I think it was playing a bit too fast.
This can be put onto cd!!!
Your videos helped me get into records and you have taught me a lot thanks
Glad to hear it! Thank you!
It's admittedly not a great recording, even by acoustic recording standards. I think it is a slower song really, and they may have been singing it up-tempo to try and fit it into the time available on the record. To be honest, I've heard better songs recorded on wax cylinders which are even older than this record. Thanks for sharing.
Nothing scary about it.
That’s cool I have a old one too call Golden slippers/swing low sweet chariot by the Fisk jubilee singers that’s either 1904 or 1909
I have over 900 of those shellacs from 1900s, 1910s and early 20s. A lot of them are Opera, Vaudeville and Fox Trot, Accordion and even Hebrew
This music was used as the theme song in the movie The Bad Seed. The little girl played it as her piano piece. This was a very fine movie,but very disturbing. 1950's black and white. John.
Finally gets round to playing it at about 3'-40", just at about the same time as everyone loses the will to live.
😂😂😂
When i was very young my Grandparents used to have an old record player that played 78 RPM records, and i used to listen to them as a very little boy, i found them interesting at the time, and it is true that they can be haunting to listen to, for instance the single of Quentin's Theme from the summer of 1968 was composed to sound like an old Edison cylinder recording from 1897, if you remember the show Dark Shadows, that's where it was played most of the time, in the show's storyline, and it did have that haunting quality to it, if you listen to it.
what's significant about 1913 is that that's the last year before they changed the design on the label, yours has the "Batwing" design that was used from 1914 to 1926, so is it possible this is a 1914 pressing of the record?
Crazy. Several years ago, I bought a Victrola and of ALL the records that could have been in it, I found a K.K.K. record. Yikes.
Sold it a few weeks later for $75.00.
Very interesting - thanks for sharing! I have several records from 1902 in my collection. (large and one-sided)
Records before 1927 really sucked before jazz
I'll be quite honest, the record did sound creepy, but it's history when you approach it that way, and it was of great interest in that historic sense, i mean think about it, the record was recorded 104 years ago, that is amazing and haunting at the same time.
Sounds pretty good for 107 year old record.
5:44 I feel you
That record plays at around 75 RPM! I think you had it playing at 80 RPM!
if you think this one sounds scary you should hear the version recorded in 1860 by Leon Scott de Martinville
Slow It Down. A LOT.
The record grooves will eventually wear out playing the record with an iron needle and such as heavy tone arm? And couldn't better sound come from a modern 78 player?
spin the platter in the OPPOSITE direction
so it plays Backwards and well see what it says 🤘🤘
The pitch is too fast!!!
I collecting old recordings like this in my record collection some of them i have is from early 1900's i have one from 1901 which is one of my earliest recordings but I do like to listen to them i know there creepy but for my record collection I like them.
That gramaphone is in AMAZING CONDITION!!!
Are the two singers still performing? 🤔😂😂😂
Somewhere!
There long gone now.
Yep, in the theater of dead.
In France it sounds just normal nothing scary. Kids learn that song in school 😅
That stink'n Au, gets me every time!
Early Victors spin at about 71-72 RPM
"Utterly horrific"?? Ummm... okay. Maybe this song is somehow tied into some repressed childhood trauma of yours? Can't understand otherwise what your problem is with it.
Lol