So great to hear this sounding like we would have heard it in the 1890s. No "Shadows of the Night" ruining it either. I was 11 and 12 in 1969 watching the show.
Absolutely love this!! 😃thank you so much for the upload. I have two Edison cylinder players, but one of them needs the idler arm adjusted in order to keep the new leather belt from slipping. My other Home model runs ok on its original old belt, but it will need a new one before long. Enjoyed the haunting quality this version produces in monotone. Love the gorgeous morning glory horn as well. I haven't the income yet to purchase a morning glory horn yet, but maybe I will once the economy bounces back from this nightmare pandemic we're going through worldwide. Praying for everyone's safety. Stay safe.
That's a beautiful machine and a very fitting recording for it. As I recall, this type of device was erroneously called a "gramophone" on the show, a term which was specifically coined for Emile Berliner's disk-type-record-players that took over for the Edison-style players. The mistake probably went unnoticed among the younger members of the show's American audience, but it was probably more noticeable when the show aired in the parts of Europe where the term was still in common use.
Thank you! I didn't learn of the terminology error until I bought my first disc gramophone twenty years ago. But watching Dark Shadows is what got me into antique phonographs and gramophones.
@@patricklynch1962 One more fun fact: The same mistake is made in the 1950 western, "The Showdown", starring Bill Elliot, in which a man is buried with his "gramophone", which is actually a very small cylinder phonograph.
+ELVIS THOMAS I know exactly the feeling you're describing. When I was in college, I worked for a couple years as a dishwasher. After standing on my feet for sometimes seven or eight hours a day, I would come home, put my feet up, and listen to Quentin's Theme on repeat. Somehow listening to this music made me feet ache less than when I listened to any other music while relaxing after work.
Now that you mention it, I had one of those dreams a couple of days ago; I was in some strange shopping mall wandering around and all of a sudden, I felt myself lifted in the air and whisked, haltingly, back into my body, which was still asleep in front of the TV set. I don't know what causes dreams like that, it is odd feeling half-in and half-out of one's body. No "Quentin's Theme" involved, though.
Love listening to this on my phone. Played it the other day for my resident I take care of and he loved it. We were both Dark Shadows fans and still are. Thankyou for this one. Like the sound of it better than some of the other versions. 😊
Thank you! I used a version that did not have the audio processing to make it sound old, so it's actually much closer to what it would have sounded like as an original cylinder recording.
Barnabas Collins love your comment. ☺️ I have two Edison cylinder players, and I've often wondered how awesome it would be to hear a 2 minute song from Dark Shadows. Ironically, my late fiancé had your namesake eons ago when the first generation Yahoo! Messenger was still in its infancy in early 2001. That's how he and I met, essentially. And our love for Dark Shadows the original series. And I hope Angelique didn't place you in a coma. That wouldn't be good. Hope you're still able to enjoy the night life. Take care 😀
Some of us grade school kids were running home to watch it too. It didn't hurt we had a parent who was a fan. In my case it was my mom who also did the ironing while she watched.
I had to run as well, or miss the show, we got out at 3;15 and the show was on at 3:30. this song used to kind of freak me out, that season of DS was really scary -"The Lottery" was the scariest for me. I never got this song out of my head.
+ELVIS THOMAS I have exactly the same reaction to this music. That's why finally having a real Edison cylinder of it and a matching phonograph was a dream come true for this old Dark Shadows fan.
I remember the Charles Randolph Grean version that was played on the radio, and, though no fan of the show, I recognized it was not the original. Nice to hear the actual tune, and you have gone one step beyond by recording it on an actual Edison cylinder. As I understand, these can only be played a limited number of times, so you have rare and perishable treasure here. Thanks for sharing it.
+Patrick McWilliams Thanks. I have a back up copy of the cylinder because of its fragility. Even still, I have to resist the temptation to play this often.
@@pcno2832 Turns out it's not quite as easy as it first appears if making new cylinders. People have shaved down old cylinders and recorded in the newly blank space. The cylinder I had made is listed in my video notes. Shawn Borri is one of the main people I know of who have thoroughly researched and started making new wax cylinders. You can find him here: members.tripod.com/~Edison_1/
This is TOO cool! Thanks for posting. I still recall when, in those crazy 1960s, a piece like this with a 19th Century sound went to #13 on the Pop charts (Charles Randolph Grean Sounde version) -- and from a TV soap opera, no less! Everyone thinks of rock, acid rock, hard rock, hippies, Beatles, Stones, etc when they think of 1960s music, but there was plenty of "room" for all sorts of sounds and genres. Mancini's "Love Theme from Romeo and Juliet" went to #1 (also in 1969), and the New Vaudeville Band's campy 1920's sounding "Winchester Cathedral" went to #1 in 1966 (just to name a couple others off the top of my head).
@@larryaldrich4351 Just about! I have a neighbour across the street with a console Victrola. One summer we lost power on our entire block and I took out my Columbia BI Sterling on the front porch and entertained the neighbours a good while before we got the power back.
love this so much! recently acquired a phonograph of my own and am in the process of having it restored. do you still have the mp3 file you used for the recording, and if so, would you be willing to share it?
Thank you! I might still have the MP3 file, I'd have to look. Went through a major computer crash after I had this done. It's track #3 on the Dark Shadows 30th anniversary collection CD. It's the music originally used for Dan Curtis' version of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and doesn't have the spooky antique phonograph filtering on it. If I can find it, I'll send it to you.
Patrick I recently acquired that exact same piece of history, probably for the same reasons as you! May I ask where you acquired the Edison version of Quentins Theme??
It's an MP3 of the music originally used for the TV movie of Jekyll and Hyde that Dan Curtis made before Dark Shadows. It's on the 25th Anniversary Dark Shadows soundtrack CD. A friend of mine has the equipment to transfer the MP3 directly to a new wax cylinder blank. If I had a recording reproducer I probably could have done the same thing with a recording horn and the CD played at high volume into the horn.
This song is perfect on cylinder... No disk version can do it justice. Thank you for this. Quentin would be pleased.
Thank you!
Just beautiful. You did a good deed, here!
Thanks!
So great to hear this sounding like we would have heard it in the 1890s. No "Shadows of the Night" ruining it either. I was 11 and 12 in 1969 watching the show.
Thanks, I was slightly younger, but very much watching it. I like hearing better without the audio processing that makes it sound "old".
Absolutely love this!! 😃thank you so much for the upload. I have two Edison cylinder players, but one of them needs the idler arm adjusted in order to keep the new leather belt from slipping. My other Home model runs ok on its original old belt, but it will need a new one before long. Enjoyed the haunting quality this version produces in monotone. Love the gorgeous morning glory horn as well. I haven't the income yet to purchase a morning glory horn yet, but maybe I will once the economy bounces back from this nightmare pandemic we're going through worldwide. Praying for everyone's safety. Stay safe.
That's a beautiful machine and a very fitting recording for it. As I recall, this type of device was erroneously called a "gramophone" on the show, a term which was specifically coined for Emile Berliner's disk-type-record-players that took over for the Edison-style players. The mistake probably went unnoticed among the younger members of the show's American audience, but it was probably more noticeable when the show aired in the parts of Europe where the term was still in common use.
Thank you! I didn't learn of the terminology error until I bought my first disc gramophone twenty years ago. But watching Dark Shadows is what got me into antique phonographs and gramophones.
@@patricklynch1962 One more fun fact: The same mistake is made in the 1950 western, "The Showdown", starring Bill Elliot, in which a man is buried with his "gramophone", which is actually a very small cylinder phonograph.
@@pcno2832 Thanks, I'll look for that!!
As I listen to that ghostly, eerie and haunting melody...my soul seem to wander outside my body inwhich its feel much lightly...
+ELVIS THOMAS I know exactly the feeling you're describing. When I was in college, I worked for a couple years as a dishwasher. After standing on my feet for sometimes seven or eight hours a day, I would come home, put my feet up, and listen to Quentin's Theme on repeat. Somehow listening to this music made me feet ache less than when I listened to any other music while relaxing after work.
Now that you mention it, I had one of those dreams a couple of days ago; I was in some strange shopping mall wandering around and all of a sudden, I felt myself lifted in the air and whisked, haltingly, back into my body, which was still asleep in front of the TV set. I don't know what causes dreams like that, it is odd feeling half-in and half-out of one's body. No "Quentin's Theme" involved, though.
Love listening to this on my phone. Played it the other day for my resident I take care of and he loved it. We were both Dark Shadows fans and still are. Thankyou for this one. Like the sound of it better than some of the other versions. 😊
Thank you! I used a version that did not have the audio processing to make it sound old, so it's actually much closer to what it would have sounded like as an original cylinder recording.
This takes me back to 1969 or should I say1897! This haunting sound would bring me out of a coma.
I hope you had some good times in 1897 Barnabas! I hope you are not in a coma too and are free to come out at night...
It's a haunting sound I never forgot or tired of. If this can bring you out of a coma, my work here is done...
Barnabas Collins love your comment. ☺️ I have two Edison cylinder players, and I've often wondered how awesome it would be to hear a 2 minute song from Dark Shadows. Ironically, my late fiancé had your namesake eons ago when the first generation Yahoo! Messenger was still in its infancy in early 2001. That's how he and I met, essentially. And our love for Dark Shadows the original series. And I hope Angelique didn't place you in a coma. That wouldn't be good. Hope you're still able to enjoy the night life. Take care 😀
How well we all remember running home from high school to watch Dark Shadows. It was more popular among high school students than it was adults.
Some of us grade school kids were running home to watch it too. It didn't hurt we had a parent who was a fan. In my case it was my mom who also did the ironing while she watched.
It was indeed popular!!
I had to run as well, or miss the show, we got out at 3;15 and the show was on at 3:30. this song used to kind of freak me out, that season of DS was really scary -"The Lottery" was the scariest for me. I never got this song out of my head.
I love this- thank you! The phonograph is a beauty!
+Matilda Woodhouse Thank you!
Beautiful. Just lovely. Thank you; I'm sure your friend's smiling.
Thank you.
Even all these years that has gone by, the eerie feelings haven't die out...every time I heard that music cruising through my soul...
+ELVIS THOMAS I have exactly the same reaction to this music. That's why finally having a real Edison cylinder of it and a matching phonograph was a dream come true for this old Dark Shadows fan.
+Patrick Lynch I LUv that rose design on the phonograph horn and immediately thought it resembled the one used on the show exactly great video thanks
The Dark Angel: Thanks! I got really lucky on finding a horn that most matched the one on the show.
I remember the Charles Randolph Grean version that was played on the radio, and, though no fan of the show, I recognized it was not the original. Nice to hear the actual tune, and you have gone one step beyond by recording it on an actual Edison cylinder. As I understand, these can only be played a limited number of times, so you have rare and perishable treasure here. Thanks for sharing it.
+Patrick McWilliams Thanks. I have a back up copy of the cylinder because of its fragility. Even still, I have to resist the temptation to play this often.
@@patricklynch1962 I would think that a new blank cylinder would be relatively easy to fabricate; does anyone make them?
@@pcno2832 Turns out it's not quite as easy as it first appears if making new cylinders. People have shaved down old cylinders and recorded in the newly blank space. The cylinder I had made is listed in my video notes. Shawn Borri is one of the main people I know of who have thoroughly researched and started making new wax cylinders. You can find him here: members.tripod.com/~Edison_1/
The beautiful song and Beautiful victrola are beyond compare 🌺🌷
That is not a Victrola, a Victrola was a internal horn disc machine made by The Victor Talking Machine Company
Incredible. Absolutely incredible.
Thank you.
This is TOO cool! Thanks for posting. I still recall when, in those crazy 1960s, a piece like this with a 19th Century sound went to #13 on the Pop charts (Charles Randolph Grean Sounde version) -- and from a TV soap opera, no less! Everyone thinks of rock, acid rock, hard rock, hippies, Beatles, Stones, etc when they think of 1960s music, but there was plenty of "room" for all sorts of sounds and genres. Mancini's "Love Theme from Romeo and Juliet" went to #1 (also in 1969), and the New Vaudeville Band's campy 1920's sounding "Winchester Cathedral" went to #1 in 1966 (just to name a couple others off the top of my head).
Thanks!
That is incredible.
Very Nice
Sorry for the late reply, thanks!
This made me irrationally happy. Thank you.
Thanks!
Lovely simply lovely. Thanks for posting.
Thanks for watching!
Love it
Thanks!
Is it my past life or my possible future ahead that I am feeling like I am in a trance-like mood when I hear that music...???
+ELVIS THOMAS if you were on Dark Shadows show then it would be definitely a past like experience
DS created much enthusiasm for antique record players.
I agree, among Dark Shadows fans I know, at least three or four of us have an Edison Home Phonograph and a custom made Quentin's Theme cylinder.
@@patricklynch1962 Have both an Edison Standard and Fireside. When the EMP hits we'll be the only kids on the block with home entertainment.
@@larryaldrich4351 Just about! I have a neighbour across the street with a console Victrola. One summer we lost power on our entire block and I took out my Columbia BI Sterling on the front porch and entertained the neighbours a good while before we got the power back.
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Thank you!
OMG!!!
❤😊
love this so much! recently acquired a phonograph of my own and am in the process of having it restored. do you still have the mp3 file you used for the recording, and if so, would you be willing to share it?
Thank you! I might still have the MP3 file, I'd have to look. Went through a major computer crash after I had this done. It's track #3 on the Dark Shadows 30th anniversary collection CD. It's the music originally used for Dan Curtis' version of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and doesn't have the spooky antique phonograph filtering on it. If I can find it, I'll send it to you.
@@patricklynch1962 Thank you so much! I will keep my eye out for that soundtrack as well
Patrick I recently acquired that exact same piece of history, probably for the same reasons as you! May I ask where you acquired the Edison version of Quentins Theme??
It's an MP3 of the music originally used for the TV movie of Jekyll and Hyde that Dan Curtis made before Dark Shadows. It's on the 25th Anniversary Dark Shadows soundtrack CD. A friend of mine has the equipment to transfer the MP3 directly to a new wax cylinder blank. If I had a recording reproducer I probably could have done the same thing with a recording horn and the CD played at high volume into the horn.