1929, Under a Texas Moon, Bert Lown Orch, Hal Kemp Orch, Bob Haring Orch, Smith Ballew, HD 78rpm

[@wylenore]

I am 84. We joined the high school band when we were in 4th grade. The grade school and high school were next to each other. In eighth grade I joined the union and played in several city bands using the school french horn and in my band director's German Band. It was very satisfying to play in a band in all these venues, especially as a kid. I so enjoy this music and am very grateful for the person who provided all these recordings for us to hear. Anyone who ever played in a band knows the joy and satisfaction doing so. Thank you!

[@Prozoot]

....thanks for tuning in -- happy to know you are enjoying the music!

[@keithgoldsmith4815]

Bob Haring with those beautiful Cellos, just eye watering, so much feeling.

[@Prozoot]

....When I first started posting on YT twelve years ago I couldn't believe the number of collectors showing off their beautiful Gramophones with a demonstration of the destruction of an E+ record. At the age of ten, I figured out how damaging these players are and just assumed that all adult collectors had some sense of responsibility and intelligence in handling records. In the past ten years, very little has changed -- other than the destruction of more shellac. A couple of years ago I spotted a YT gentleman in the UK who came up with the ingenious invention of attaching a small sable-hair brush to the tip of his ten-pound steel needle tonearm. So, the brush would gently sweep away the little chunks of shellac that broke away from the groove walls. A brilliant solution to that annoying black powder. Yes, the music was literally turned to dust! Just as it is, every day, somewhere around the world some brain-dead collector insists on enjoying his 78s without a thought of the next owners. This problem cannot be a one-time complaint -- we need to keep harping and badgering until the point is made across the collecting community. Playing clean records on ALL vintage machines is unacceptable and horrifying behavior. And it needs to stop! I want to thank John Tefteller, Henry Parsons, and others for adding their voices to the protection of our music. I hope more people will step forward and join the movement for shellac preservation. If we can save the whales, we can save 78rpm records!

[@HansLimburger1930]

@@retrocollector1999 I'd argue that there's nothing wrong with playing common records that are in poor condition on a victrola. The main thing that upsets me and other collectors is people playing rare and uncommon records on windups. On this platform, I’ve seen many great and expensive records being played on antique machines. These records are important historical items that should be treated with care. With modern equipment, you can get so much more out of these records in terms of sound quality. Not only are you protecting the record itself with the use of modern equipment, but you are also bringing out nuances from the recordings that can not be heard on victrolas. This channel is proof of that.

[@alexmckenna1171]

I agree totally. It always makes me cringe when I see rare records being worn away on some old machine, even if it happens to be a beautiful example of early engineering.

[@dannbis5117]

I thought it's common knowlege among the collectors that steel needle on an acoustic soundbox damages the record. I assumed those people demonstrating their grammophones are not using mint-contition records because they know that will ruin its value. Guess I'm prooved wrong. (At least now I know how a "mint" record could sound like on a good grammophone.) People back in the day used to have no issue scratching up there records with steel needles shellac records were being made by the thousands each day and thus weren't "collectable". For quite some time there was no affordable alternative either: The acoustic soundbox and steel needle combination was the most widely available and the most affordable option well into the late 40's when vinyl records were on their way to replace shellac. By that time, there was finally a need for affordable electric pickups with tracking force low enough not to damage the delicate vinyl records. (From which the shellac record also greatly benifits.) With the rise of the vinyl came the fall of shellac. Decades later, when practically nobody makes new shellacs any more, they become collectable. The resource pool of shellac records has become finite. As some of them slowly wear away under the steel needles, they can't be replaced by new pressings using the same master. Following that statement are my own opinions: If it's a common and well-played record, it probably has already been digitalised and thus the physical record becomes more or less expendable. If it's rare and/or mint, however, the act of playing it under a steel needle is nothing more than the demonstration of its owner's selfishness and short-sightedness, plus lack of knowledge and respect to the subject. You're welcome. Well, the fact that people still play shellac on grammophones is yet another reason to preserve the music by digitalising them. The music should at least be preserved as the same can't always be done to its physical carriage. @Prozoot You have done great work!

[@LordWham]

Thank you!

[@RatPfink66]

Now can we do something about the perverse habit of thru-the-air YouTubing? Even if you've got high quality reproduction, why insist on filtering it thru your room tone? Unless you feel you paid for the privilege of hearing the record at its best, and don't want others to hear it that way... ...and btw there's a lot more at stake than what you own, or I own, or anyone owns. We're custodians of a cultural legacy, or we ought to be. *Prozoot* is exemplary in that regard. Best of all, he presents each posting at its best possible quality without regard for rarity or market value.

[@HansLimburger1930]

Timestamps: Bert Lown Orch. - 0:00 Hal Kemp Orch. - 3:02 Bob Harring Orch. - 6:29

[@Prozoot]

....thank you, Hans!

[@tadeodewiesent1482]

¡¡¡Bravo...!!! ¡Hermoso...! ¡Beautiful...! 👍👍👍👌👌👌👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@antoniocampagnefilho120]

lindas orquestras imortais nao podemos deixar no esquecimento ate os netos gostam

[@mainaccount131]

Super excellent

[@robnroth]

Love this!

[@RatPfink66]

I'll give it to Lown for swing and overall stay-with-you-ness, Kemp for originality of presentation, and Haring for ensemble sonority. Everybody gets a prize at RatPfink's Make Believe Ballroom, even if it's Most Outstanding Bad Example (Phil Dooley).

[@teebeesea]

Excellent take on these three!

[@williamfox5685]

A lot of good music came from this year of 1929.

[@teebeesea]

Wow...I'd never heard the third track...the bass is so over-recorded it made my teeth rattle! I think this particular Battle of the Bands was won fair and square by Mr. Lown and Co.

[@robertmackinnon9666]

That’s the Tuba, but it sounds great though for it’s time. Nice clear recording.

[@frankolen4137]

Good song tjanks

[@thephotoplayer]

Nice to hear a not-so-crunchy Harmony, for once. Unfortunately, the delightful Technicolor film this is from is mired in rights hell.

[@SuperBogdan2010]

👍👍👍

[@paulmondeel]

Very nice ! A pity Bob Haring went into the Rolls Royce business.

[@paulmondeel]

Yes, on the record jacket Bob Haring changed into Bob Harring !