Listening to it for the fourth time, 'Lull' has such a wonderful melody. Before I go to bed again, a fifth or sixth time (at least) will be played. I've always loved the song, but this version is so beautiful. American recording companies around this time had a very brash and aggressive sound, while their British counterparts produced what 20 years later would be called HiFi. The detail is incredible and the recording balance is on par with, if not better than, most records made today. Fascinating!
Panachord Peter, is it somewhere on YT or Soundcloud? I love Carroll and have loads of his solos and Boyfriends records digitized on MiniDisc. I just have trouble getting a digital connection between my MD recorder and the optical (digital) input of my sound card, otherwise I would already have posted dozens and dozens of his sides. I had all my transfers from 78 to professional cassette tape (all played only once) and MD, when Windows decided to format both my internal and external (music archive) hard disk. 6 full weeks of hard work down the drain. I think I lost at least 300 hours of digitizing and around 1,000 hours of restoration work. I now only connect my external disk when I need it. There is about 5,000 hours of music on it.
A rather funny story about 'There's a lull in my life'. When Chris Ellis had a gig in Amsterdam in the 70s, one of the numbers he sang was that title. He and his fellow musicians didn't understand why the public was hilarious. Well. it was quite simple: in Dutch Lull means C*ck. Likewise Chris and his friends were hilarious when they saw billboards advertising 'Vocking Worst"... The latter is Holland's best sold brand of liver wurst. He told me this story himself when I drove him home after a day of delving through 20,000 or more 78s at a fair in Holland, and we passed by one of those billboards.
00:08 [1] Horses Carry Tails (THE BBC DANCE ORCHESTRA directed by Henry Hall, vocal chorus by Trio including Les Allen & Burton Gillis) 03:19 [2] Don't You Cry When We Say Goodbye (GERALDO AND HIS SWEET MUSIC, Vocal chorus by Cyril Grantham) 06:30 [3] Cotton (ROY FOX AND HIS BAND, Vocal chorus by Denny Dennis) 09:39 [4] Heaven (MRS JACK HYLTON AND HER BAND, Vocal chorus by Jimmy Miller) 12:38 [5] There's A Lull in My Life (BILLY BISSETT AND HIS CANADIANS, Vocal chorus by Alice Mann) 15:53 [6] Trusting My Luck (BRAM MARTIN AND HIS BAND, Vocal chorus by Gene Crowley)
Does anyone know if the magazine page shown at 7:08 is from the Radio Review the cover of which is shown at 9:12? Or where I might be able to find this magazine(s)- maybe in an archive somewhere?
Excellent work and superb dynamic rendering....
Thank you
Great selection.
Thank you for sharing.
Fantastic clean and quiet transcriptions! Hardly no cracks and pops or other noise. Remarkable. Thank you for superb sound quality and superb music!
Thanks, I appreciate your comment.
Really nice version of "Don't You Cry When We Say Goodbye". Enjoying this post again, thanks Peter
Thanks Peter for posting one of my favorite tunes, "There's A Lull In My Life". I like all the tunes from the musical "Wake Up and Live".
A heavenly selection! Thank you, Peter.
Listening to it for the fourth time, 'Lull' has such a wonderful melody. Before I go to bed again, a fifth or sixth time (at least) will be played. I've always loved the song, but this version is so beautiful. American recording companies around this time had a very brash and aggressive sound, while their British counterparts produced what 20 years later would be called HiFi. The detail is incredible and the recording balance is on par with, if not better than, most records made today. Fascinating!
Peter Hendriksma There is also a lovely version of the song by Carroll Gibbons and sung by Anne Lenner.
Panachord Peter, is it somewhere on YT or Soundcloud? I love Carroll and have loads of his solos and Boyfriends records digitized on MiniDisc. I just have trouble getting a digital connection between my MD recorder and the optical (digital) input of my sound card, otherwise I would already have posted dozens and dozens of his sides. I had all my transfers from 78 to professional cassette tape (all played only once) and MD, when Windows decided to format both my internal and external (music archive) hard disk. 6 full weeks of hard work down the drain. I think I lost at least 300 hours of digitizing and around 1,000 hours of restoration work. I now only connect my external disk when I need it. There is about 5,000 hours of music on it.
+Peter Hendriksma This song is also posted on my channel Peter by Gibbons.
Excellent
Thanks for these treats.
Thankss again.
A rather funny story about 'There's a lull in my life'. When Chris Ellis had a gig in Amsterdam in the 70s, one of the numbers he sang was that title. He and his fellow musicians didn't understand why the public was hilarious. Well. it was quite simple: in Dutch Lull means C*ck. Likewise Chris and his friends were hilarious when they saw billboards advertising 'Vocking Worst"... The latter is Holland's best sold brand of liver wurst. He told me this story himself when I drove him home after a day of delving through 20,000 or more 78s at a fair in Holland, and we passed by one of those billboards.
00:08 [1] Horses Carry Tails (THE BBC DANCE ORCHESTRA directed by Henry Hall, vocal chorus by Trio including Les Allen & Burton Gillis)
03:19 [2] Don't You Cry When We Say Goodbye (GERALDO AND HIS SWEET MUSIC, Vocal chorus by Cyril Grantham)
06:30 [3] Cotton (ROY FOX AND HIS BAND, Vocal chorus by Denny Dennis)
09:39 [4] Heaven (MRS JACK HYLTON AND HER BAND, Vocal chorus by Jimmy Miller)
12:38 [5] There's A Lull in My Life (BILLY BISSETT AND HIS CANADIANS, Vocal chorus by Alice Mann)
15:53 [6] Trusting My Luck (BRAM MARTIN AND HIS BAND, Vocal chorus by Gene Crowley)
"Cotton" sounds almost as "Stormy Weather"!
trusting my luck should have it's own video! hint hint
An apt title you chose for this set! My favorite has to be Fox's "Cotton."
The Martin side is great as well!
I say it again: "Mrs Jack Hylton and her band" sounds even better than her husbands band!
Ooops ! Harry Roy,s please don,t touch my wife,s cat -never quite made this selection !
Does anyone know if the magazine page shown at 7:08 is from the Radio Review the cover of which is shown at 9:12? Or where I might be able to find this magazine(s)- maybe in an archive somewhere?
What ,no Jack Hulbert vocal !