1928, Smiling Skies, Ain't You Baby, Coon Sanders Orch. HD 78rpm

[@brucemercer8458]

It's a treat to finally hear the lyrics to Smiling Skies and the C.S. Orch. does it justice and they are a favorite group of mine. Meroffs same year 1928 version is the best version I've ever heard with a far more intimate arrangement showing off the solos with Wild Bill Davison, violin, guitar and string bass George Physter and the rest of the group. Also, it is exquisitely recorded being able to hear every instrument, the bass being the most difficult to record but is easily heard to the very last note. Far superior to Victor in'28 who were still chasing "brilliance" at a cost. Columbia was by this time were using pasr Edison engineers that knew something about capturing overtones in recording. Listen to Meroffs version again and you will hear the difference. Thank you for the C.S. post as I enjoyed it very much and appreciate knowing the lyrics.

[@dick12235]

Back again for more "Smiling Skies". Thanks.

[@joscallinet6260]

@Prozoot: I assume you're playing the actual record shown on our screens. The sound is impressively clear. Are you playing this ten-inch-diameter 78 rpm Victrola record on a modern turntable with a properly designed tonearm, cartridge and stylus for playing 78s? You are very fortunate to have found this record in its original packaging sleeve with all the artwork and promotional literature of the era! It's great to see people like yourself taking an interest in recorded music from nearly a century ago and sharing it with us today! You're doing these fabulous musicians - and us listeners - a great service!

[@Prozoot]

....the answer to your questions is "yes" -- and thank you for tuning in, and for the kind comments.

[@charliesimmons9007]

Fantastic music. Wish I could have played banjo with them & died happy.

[@bill3murr]

love the "ain't you baby" cut. it is so good to find such wonderful music sounding so good. thank you.

[@josephdodd5770]

Great 👍 band. Thanks

[@roybo1930]

Still enjoying this video treasure! Each song a Masterpiece!

[@solet579]

Very beautiful tunes

[@HarborGuy]

I have these guys on C/D - they were big on early radio........the one died young of an infection.........

[@richardmoon1852]

Thanks again for this treat.

[@dick12235]

Beautiful. Thanks for posting.

[@richardmoon1852]

Thanks again for this wonderful treat.

[@fromthesidelines]

Recorded on November 27, 1928.......and November 29, 1929.

[@dick12235]

Thanks: A wonderful treat for my Brain again.

[@antoniocampaneflho7821]

grandes canções boas parabens

[@lucascodebreak]

1:45 i love this part 💗🎺🎻 i dont know why, but i birth in 2003 and get nostalgic vibes with this music :v (and my english is a sh#t)

[@Prozoot]

.....your English is perfection! Thank you for tuning in.

[@dick12235]

Thanks again: Always a treat.

[@genatzvalee]

Wow, what a great luck to find it! Before I only heard Benny Meroff's instrumental version and loved it a lot. It's just awesome to find another version, especially with vocal! Thank you! "Ain't you Baby" was a nice bonus ;)

[@roybo1930]

Again Another Favorit!!! I`M Well Blessed To Have This Beauty In My Collection. Awsome To See It On Your Wonderful Site.

[@mainaccount131]

Very pleasing

[@gavinmillar7339]

what a cheery little song, its great!

[@farmyardflavours]

awesome. im so glad i found your channel

[@mainaccount131]

Super excellent with good photo

[@bostonblakie]

No yawns here. This was one of the great 20s bands as well as being pioneers in live early musical radio broadcasting.

[@roybo1930]

Here Goes Again!! Prozoot I Love This!!! Thank You So Much For Posting.

[@Prozoot]

I don't have any of the TOM CDs -- but I believe "Ain't You Baby" is on one of them. I can't help you on those waltzes.

[@mainaccount131]

Super excellent with photos

[@dick12235]

Thanks again.

[@dick12235]

Thanks again for this Treat.

[@richardmoon1852]

thanks again for this treat.

[@BrianMusak01]

Great sound transfer!

[@pagemike4192]

Many thanks for getting back to me

[@songanddanceman100]

Yawns? Maybe b/c no one knew it was on here. I had to read all the comments to see why this issue was lasting 5 plus minutes...then I saw the light, brother! Give it it's own posting! :)

[@AdamRamet]

"Ain't You Baby" the second tune : Interesting piece - a straight lift of James P Johnson's "Innovation Rag", as he re-used as "Night Club" in his Harlem Symphony. The last strain even sounds like James P! There must be a story behind this, surely?

[@RatPfink66]

"Ain't You Baby" was never issued...and maybe this is why.

[@RatPfink66]

Let's have folks judge for themselves... here's "Innovation" (1917) kzbin.info/www/bejne/iqrFl5dspM6WiKM and here's "Night Club" (1932) kzbin.info/www/bejne/o3y3e414qNh3eMk

[@godnigga4859]

nice!

[@dick12235]

Thanks much, Again.

[@dick12235]

Brain needed this Treat again: Thanks.

[@mainaccount131]

Delightful

[@phredl]

It's not as simple as that Edisons were cut differently from most other records. They were vertically cut as opposed to the laterally cut method used by almost all other recording companies. If you tried playing it on say a Victor console without a special adaptor you would destroy the record. There are ways to get around it. with modern equipment.

[@JohnSmith-jf1eb]

thank you, Prozoot.

[@BlackSeranna]

I have an Edison record that I need a 78 rpm player for. Such an old old record, twice as thick as the other records!

[@artshifrin3053]

I RECALL THAT THEIR RPM IS 80. PLEASE CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG. IN THEIR HEYDAY, THESE EDISON DISKS WERE VERTICAL CUT & IF NOT PLAYED WITH A P / U DESIGNED FOR THAT USE, THE GROOVES QUICKLY (MAYBE SOONER THAN THAT) WERE UTTERLY GOUGED. ANNNND- CLEAN THEM WITH ALCOHOL, NOT WATER !!!

[@richardmoon1852]

thanks again,.

[@richardmoon1852]

thanks again

[@richardmoon1852]

thanks again.

[@DavidA-ps1qr]

Brilliant

[@dick12235]

Thanks, My Brain requested this again.

[@mainaccount131]

Great

[@votrung227]

Back to ..... ❤️❤️❤️

[@antoniocampaneflho7821]

grandes orquestras

[@anarbaxsiyev9947]

Love

[@Nate-9797]

few years late like, but is this music copywrite free?

[@dick12235]

Brain requested this again: Thanks.

[@erasmopereira5066]

Adoro estas originais Orquestras, quase centenárias. Interessante, é a saudade de um tempo, que não existíamos. 👍👏👏👏👏👏

[@leonblum7898]

@@erasmopereira5066 ADORO IGUAL QUE TU Y A TU PAÍS, ES VERDAD TENGO 78 PERO TAMPOCO EXISTÍA

[@Prozoot]

@rojoknox , It is take 2.

[@Prozoot]

I think yer the only person who has figured that out!

[@antoniocampaneflho7821]

parabens

[@gordonayres2609]

Hot diggitty!

[@shosha1878]

Do you remastered your self? It's a terrific sound.

[@Prozoot]

....yes, and thank you for the kind words.

[@jbrown44483]

When is next festival?

[@uslines]

No orchestra could match the CS arrangements!

[@pagemike4192]

Who is the vocalist ? it is very hard to make out on the 78 middle many thanks for posting

[@bflat879]

Sounds like Joe Sanders.

[@solinus7131]

At the left panel, it has the name of the singer.

[@billfurman1494]

Oh, you kid!

[@Prozoot]

No LPs here -- just a light clean-up on 78RPM. I thought that second cut would get people's attention, since it is an unissued song. ....but it just produced yawns.

[@billfurman1494]

An Orthophonic recording, from a Victor Recording Machine.

[@MediaHoax]

"Leaving the smiling skies" was probably a code for the traders to slowly sell the stocks on the stockmarket.

[@billfurman1494]

Is you is, or is you ain't?

[@macsnafu]

Look, this is just irritating. *Why* don't you give the information for the second song on these two-fer videos, as well as the first? I'm assuming the 2nd song is the flip side of the 78.

[@Prozoot]

Hey, Groucho, ....the second cut is titled "Ain't You, Baby?" -- taken from a different record (an unissued test).

[@RatPfink66]

Can't a fella be just a bit coy? Cultivate an air of mystery, or at least a feeling of "don't beat a path to my door about my great collection"? Besides, anytime he sneaks in bonus tracks, I try and pin 'em down using my world class google-fu, and put in a timing to bring you right to the top of each cut. I did these 2 cuts almost a year ago...but hey, life's too short to read KZbin comments, right?

[@macsnafu]

@@RatPfink66 It used to be that you watched the television shows that the networks offered when they decided to show them. You listened to the songs the disc jockeys or the radio station chose to play, when they chose to play it. You had little control over your options. I was born in 1965, and that's the system I grew up with in the 70s, with real options and alternatives only really becoming readily available in the 80s and later. The internet is a much more 'enabling' system with its interactivity and ready access to tons of information. So when I come across content that I don't understand with little or no available meta-info to help understand or explain it, I don't think it's cute or coy; I find it frustrating. It's like backsliding to the time when I didn't have as much control over my options. Yes, I like mysteries. But I like them even better when they get resolved. I've discovered all sorts of music on the internet, from Bix Biederbecke to Solar Fields. So I like 'discovering' new music, i.e, not just hearing music I haven't heard before but understanding it, its style, its tradition, the artists involved, the dates to properly put it into a historical perspective, etc. So when I hear music without knowing any additional information about it, it's like being stuck in a dead-end alley.

[@antoniocampaneflho7821]

boas musycas para uovyr

[@gavinmillar7339]

what a cheery little song, its great!

[@richardmoon1852]

Thanks again.

[@mainaccount131]

Delightful

[@mainaccount131]

Great

[@richardmoon1852]

Thanks again.

[@richardmoon1852]

Thanks again.