Heartaches - QRS 8213

I like to post older original copies of rolls. But this is a great song, and since I already posted my other Al Bowlly hits, I might as well include this one - even tho it's a newer copy. It's another one of my favorites. I hope you enjoy Heartaches - most people don't!
Listen to an updated version here
• Heartaches - QRS 8213 ...

[@nopls5604]

Crazy how in 60-70 years this song will actually be a burning memory for many

[@NathanIsaacStudios]

I guess

[@Cyberjoker14]

It already is for many :c

[@NathanIsaacStudios]

@@Cyberjoker14 indeed,though it becoming a Burning memory for our newest Generation had left me quite perplexed.

[@user-kp9he4th9z]

It already is a burning memory it came out in the 1930s 80 some years ago

[@keithey]

It already is bro 💀

[@neondennon]

As much as I love Al Bowlleys version, with the “Hearrrrtacheeess, heaaaarrrtachheees..” I really like these ones that go more like “Heart. Aches. .. Heart. Aches.”

[@私はマーリンです]

thing is, it's more true to the thing with heartaches they persist they just don't come and go quickly really

[@grayanddevpdx]

I always sing/hum it with the first note at full length, then the second as staccato, which blends the two in a way that gets the best of both.

[@icreatedanaccountforthis]

I like to think Al Bowlley is singing about hard eggs

[@CharlieBruinsFilms]

Well... Yeah...

[@enricotp4539]

Memories don't hurt, what really hurts is seeing people who built good memories become a memory, a burning memory.

[@Tadfafty]

Indeed.

[@hobomike6935]

the realest comment here

[@Obsessive_cartoon_drawer]

My biggest fear is not death, but the process of dying, slowly losing who I am and who I was due to some inevitable invisible force

[@kurtdewittphoto]

I haven't seen a lot of player piano videos, but this is the first time i"ve seen the lyrics on the roll. That's so great.

[@Skgwgaietto]

That's great. Thanks for watching. I'm glad you enjoy my video and camera angle. I have plenty of other videos as well. Thanks again for your support !

[@Halberds6]

​@@Skgwgaietto the piano makes it sound more jazzy, which makes it the jammy-jam

[@rowanbelt3612]

Everyone is commenting with the Caretaker reference…I just think it is a really great roll. I like your tempo. Daringly fast but it swings hard!

[@Skgwgaietto]

Thank you! I thought it was fast, too, but also just right.

[@angel.017]

all jokes aside, this song is really beautiful. The story it’s telling is amazing, it’s simple and heartbreaking. It’s magnificent

[@andrewcruz1931]

I think we all know that . That’s why we’re here .

[@TheSilverShadow17]

At the end of the day, it's a song not gonna lie. Plus there's nothing wrong with listening to it.

[@angel.017]

idk why I ever posted this comment

[@mrconcorde4590]

down the street this ice cream shop has a late 1800s player piano that is incredibly old and has this song including lullaby of the leaves.

[@pokechimp88]

Imagine if it also has Goodnight, my Beautiful

[@TheBeaz3]

Lullaby of the leaves is so good! I just wish it was preserved better. The recording on apple music is literally just call “Lullaby Of The.”

[@BaoBao0923]

Interesting how this song is a burning memory truly for the elderly of today and the days before yet will continue to be so for our generation too in the future

[@SuperemeLeaderJ]

I had no idea the original sounded so much cooler than It’s Just A Burning Memory. Granted, they ARE different styles, but damn, why is it so catchy?

[@sirchoppy1810]

I listen to this everyday

[@Skgwgaietto]

Love to hear that! Thank you for listening.

[@rcmac206]

woah, this is the closest I've found to the player piano I have! I hope to restore it one day

[@SevenPlus65]

I just did a complete restore on mine 2 years ago. Haven't regretted it for a second.

[@Skgwgaietto]

This piano has a single valve stack in it. Very very easy to work on and a great one to start with if it's your first time restoring a player. Thank you for watching!

[@zarand2554]

I originally listened to the Caretaker's stuff roughly a few years ago. Lead me down this rabbit hole. I lovvvve this version of Al Bowlly's Heartaches. Has a upbeat style to it, even though its supposed to tell a story of heart break.

[@grayanddevpdx]

Listening to The Caretaker can lead to two paths. Becoming obsessed with psychology and memory, or becoming obsessed with 20’s ballroom music. I chose to simultaneously go down both, and now I listen to a hundred song playlist consisting entirely of variations of Heartaches and Lullaby of the Leaves while also doing research on the scientific explanations of brain functions.

[@santiagolupo8854]

Conforme la canción avanzaba, el pianista comenzaba a morir y olvidar poco a poco lo que era, lo que le gustaba y lo que quería. Y tan pronto como la última nota sonó, el último recuerdo que tenía con su amada se desvaneció para siempre.

[@dumbasspiece]

i absolutely love it. it swings hard! very good!

[@MorseStone]

I love the stride/ragtime style this is played in! I find it to be quite an interesting take on this song, and inspires me to try something similar.

[@KawhackitaRag]

Frank Milne was a great pianist and roll arranger. Check out more of his work on Artis Wodehouse's channel. She recently (via his family I think) ran across several dozen manuscripts of his roll arrangements, and has been posting them up over the past few years.

[@masklavier]

This is another great roll, I have the Aeolian version coming in a few days and am looking forward to hearing it!

[@WitchKing-Of-Angmar]

1:52 didn't expect an ending like a Steven Universe song (there's a complicated term for this sort of Coda that refers to this jazz like chording style of ending///jazz only in refrence to the style of harmony, taken inspiration from the blues chord system, not jazz rhythm wise)

[@KawhackitaRag]

This is a very nice version of this song, and thank you for sharing. However my personal favorite roll arrangement of it is by (the equally great) Rudy Erlebach, and was issued on the "Paramount" roll label in the early 1930s. All Paramount rolls are rare due to having both great arrangements (usually) and also being punched on very cheap, high-acid-content paper, almost like newsprint paper! (part of this was due to rationing in the Great Depression when most Paramount rolls were made). This means a lot of those rolls got destroyed and thrown out from being 'played to death', so it is important to scan all the remaining ones. I first heard that version of "Heartaches" on a Cracker Barrel LP "Original Player Piano Roll Gems" issued probably in the 1960s/70s (they issued probably over a dozen LPs in this series which mostly have identical cover art, making them hard to tell apart). My friend Augie has a copy of this rare roll, and we're hoping to get it scanned soon. If you want a recut of it to play on your piano, let me know.

[@Skgwgaietto]

Hey. Thanks for commenting and watching. I'm glad you enjoyed my video. You have no idea how right you are regarding the Paramount rolls.... I'm gonna a post one I just got. A copy of Aren't We All? It had some minor issues and I repairing it, the roll had one of the deep creases you see every now and then? Yeah well.. she snapped clean I half before I could stop it. I was not happy..... But yea. I'd love a recut. Let me know. Thanks again!

[@popwrenchead258]

the lyrics on the roll is awesome

[@EvanLikesCats312]

that was such a beutiful thing, that instrument is probably the best piano I've heard

[@Skgwgaietto]

Wow. Thank you so much. That's so great to hear. Thanks for watching and commenting!

[@FatherMcKenzie66]

This song never gets old!

[@dockyard1797]

Beautiful, awesome work of engineering

[@JoaquinArviso]

My grandpa is singing along

[@Skgwgaietto]

That's so wonderful to hear. I'm so glad I posted this song and I'm glad I decided to start uploading videos. It makes me smile knowing I've made someone's day that much brighter with music.

[@JoaquinArviso]

@@Skgwgaietto thank you so much for making my grandpa happy he doesn’t really sing much because he has dementia but he still works once again thank you!

[@JoaquinArviso]

@@Skgwgaiettohe’s in the early stage

[@CeolDeamhan]

Brilliant choice in tempo! Now I want to do an orchestral arrangement at this particular speed...

[@rowanbelt3612]

Do it! We'd love to hear it! I've thought of doing something similar with some of the Lee Sims rolls but I'm too lazy lol

[@Ineedsleep1941]

When you don’t have musical skill but you have this:

[@NemoExNusquam]

Heartaches Heartaches My loving you meant only heartaches Your kiss was such a sacred thing to me I can't believe *it's just a burning memory* Heartaches Heartaches What does it matter how my heart breaks? I should be happy with someone new But my heart aches for you

[@jakesteampson7043]

Thanks, but all the lyrics are printed right on the roll 😛

[@NemoExNusquam]

@@jakesteampson7043 They are not real... wake up... wake up... wake up...

[@jakesteampson7043]

@@NemoExNusquam You should tone it down with those drugs lol

[@NemoExNusquam]

@@jakesteampson7043 don't call me "you"! I identify myself as a basketball, so my pronouns are basket and ball. And don't talk to me, I have a boyfriend.

[@jakesteampson7043]

@@NemoExNusquam So basket prefers to talk about ballself in third person?

[@nicgamer2643]

beautiful

[@chustine1112]

Lyrics: Heartaches, Heartaches My loving you meant only Heartaches Your kiss was such a sacred thing to me I can’t believe *it’s just a burning memory* Heartaches, Heartaches What does it matter how my heart breaks I should be happy with someone new but My heart aches for you You said you loved me just as I love you And I believed it all I never dreamt your words would prove untrue I was a fool to fall Heartaches, Heartaches My loving you meant only Heartaches Your kiss was such a sacred thing to me I can’t believe *it’s just a burning memory* Heartaches, Heartaches What does it matter how my heart breaks I should be happy with someone new but My heart aches for you. *End*

[@chustine1112]

1:13 dude I swear I never saw the “you brought me heart aches” part, am I having dementia from this song?

[@carterjules6824]

I love how jaunty this version is!! It's very bouncy 💖

[@allison88888888]

lovely 🎶

[@gwaninc8631]

It's beautiful.

[@gavinstricklin9512]

We givin the entire saloon dementia with this one🗣️🗣️🗣️🔥🔥🔥

[@eskathegoat2137]

Heartaches, heartaches My loving you, they're only heartaches Your kiss was such a sacred thing to me I can't believe it's just a burning memory Heartaches, heartaches What does it matter how my heart breaks? I should be happy with someone new But my heart aches for you

[@chamwow168]

This is so much fun, this song speaks to me in a very unique way

[@maxthailandop]

Hey, I was actually search for a perfect version of Heartache. I usually listen it while I studying. This is the one! Thanks you for bringing it back to life❤

[@Skgwgaietto]

You're very welcome. Someone made the comment that this "has a certain charm to it," and I agree. Thanks for watching!

[@tomasperez1121]

I have always wanted to achieve this mastery form of playing.

[@k4rn31ro8]

yo this is fire

[@Somewhere_Bagel]

very lovely, fast but i kinda like it. gives it different feeling

[@StudMacher96]

Ooohh classy

[@optiTHOMAS]

absolutely phenomenal! Thank you for sharing! love it! ❤️😁👍

[@kingmidasxynopyt]

Heart aches Heart aches My loving you meant only heart aches Your kiss was such a sacred thing to me I can’t believe it’s just a burning memory Heart aches Heart aches What does it matter how my heart breaks I should be happy with someone new but my heart aches for you You said you love me just as I love you And I believed it all I never dreamt your words would prove untrue I was a fool to fall You brought me Heart aches Heart aches My loving you meant only heart aches Your kiss was such a sacred thing to me I can’t believe it’s just a burning memory Heart aches Heart aches What does it matter how my heart breaks I should be happy with someone new but my heart aches for you

[@kingmidasxynopyt]

I just love these lyrics, it adds so much with only one extra paragraph… Uh, verse ig idk I’m no musician, but like, wow…

[@JoaquinArviso]

@@kingmidasxynopyt yes the first line with heartaches heartaches is called a chorus. The two middle paragraphs would be considered the verse

[@kingmidasxynopyt]

@@JoaquinArviso this song didn’t used to have a verse y’know

[@VIR363]

its kind of amazing we had this type of tech way back

[@cannedworms1814]

It's just a rolling memory

[@toastforlunch]

Best Dementia Meme Of The Year

[@Caleb-DH]

lmao

[@DetroitDiesel671]

I like the version that goes "yip-yip-yip-yip, werp a werp-werp, bo-ba-bobo, num-na-num-num...."

[@gwaninc8631]

Before it gets popular…. I love this. My memory is so fucked, I’m barely 21. My body just completely let it felt die. I feel horribly helpless. Nobody cares or is careful…. I’m so tired. I just wanted to be a normal kid.

[@joshuaginoza9446]

Im happy i found this video. Rare.

[@thecaregroup1624]

That's amazing!

[@bananabrain364]

Wonderful!!!!

[@madcatmk213]

i love this song

[@noahplaysgames3748]

There's peppy, there's swinging, then there's this

[@spealded]

i like that the person posted this when eateot was around

[@keithey]

Even though it's probably a 70 year old piano that uses air pressure to play itself, this actually goes crazy hard

[@Skgwgaietto]

Thank you! She's old and worn out but sounds pretty good for her age.

[@KawhackitaRag]

*suction 😉

[@BarelyCinematic]

the piano has dementia

[@user-fb7uc6io7c]

Мегахарош

[@sierra3398]

What piano

[@Kir039]

​@@user-fb7uc6io7c согл

[@user-ux3pg4qhacau]

funny

[@ladycavalier]

noooo 😭

[@Rottown]

This is awesome, i love it!!!

[@Coulge]

There is something weird about this music, I feel touched and scared at the same time

[@GramophonicReevolution]

Excellent

[@DinuraFernando]

All joked aside this is a bop

[@TheGoldenOne25]

I’ve only ever heard all the lyrics up to here 0:55 I’ve never heard these lyrics in the song before

[@alanalves1723]

Me too

[@panopticonseye]

lovely!!!

[@CharlieBruinsFilms]

Neato!

[@MrHappyoficial]

Watching this video for the first time! Good Job!

[@MrHappyoficial]

Watching this video for the first time! Good Job!

[@MrHappyoficial]

Watching this video for the first time! Good Job!

[@MrHappyoficial]

Watching this video for the first time! Good Job!

[@MrHappyoficial]

Watching this video for the first time! Good Job!

[@MrHappyoficial]

Watching this video for the first time! Good Job!

[@Bbhamadama888]

I originally found this song because of that one internet meme about dementia, but now I like this song, really catchy.

[@gordonfreemanfromhalflifee]

omg so cool wow good job

[@asuntosvarios7456]

Es curioso. Una máquina tiene más alma, más arte, más elegancia, más gusto, más clase y es más evocadora que los Bad Bunny, Maluma, Eminem, etc. El mundo va a peor también en lo que respecta a la Música, no cabe duda.

[@Caleb-DH]

wow 😮

[@OzziePawzies]

THIS ABSOLUTE AMAZINGGGGGGGG!!!

[@Skgwgaietto]

Thank you. I'm glad you enjoy this. Thanks for watching.

[@OzziePawzies]

Np!@@Skgwgaietto

[@filet5634]

Banger

[@Radi_vvanker]

Beautiful work!

[@burock2241]

best version i have seen

[@enricotp4539]

🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@DeanT.]

Thanks for uploading this

[@digitaldarkx]

Nina’s piano forsenDespair

[@spingleboygle]

good ending: felix drove ed and molly home successfully

[@Panton_Eric]

Old good

[@___One]

Nice!

[@Thatoneboi81]

The lyrics 😭

[@DorettaMadere]

4504 Aurelio Flats

[@enricotp4539]

Pretty good

[@школя]

Its just a burning memory

[@skippy8294]

The origin of the DAW

[@malik-a-creeper]

but first, it was a simple midi program without any effects, just like a score in tv paper

[@FRITZ_WZM]

Я русский,и не знал что перевод будет таким ироничным и душевнобольным😢😅

[@AlexDeLarge1]

Jitterbugging at the nursing facility

[@ElAlamein3828]

Hey Skgwgaietto I was wondering if you had 'Top Hat, White Tie And Tails' by Al Bowlly? Would love to hear it on this machine.

[@Skgwgaietto]

Unfortunately, that is one I do not own. I also don't have Puttin On the Ritz. Those two seem to go together. Thanks for asking! I always try to upload any requests if I have them, and can find them in my mess lol.

[@pickergamin]

dementia good ending:the doctors have messed up with their diagnosis, and you continue your old life normally

[@gigacow]

What’s the vocal version with both verses like this?

[@Syndicalist]

i keep seeing 2 versions of this song, one that is long with little lyrics and one that is short but with more lyrics which this one is the 2nd. can anyone explain this to me and why there are 2 versions

[@1we.764]

hehehe piano dementia

[@FedericoDeBiaseCoppola]

I want to buy this NOW. Where to buy it

[@AhsokaTano101]

Saloon gang

[@UnfairDare]

i can literally hear the lyrics

[@arl6565]

I feel like i have heard this one before.

[@your6322]

How did I get this? I..... i forgort

[@qwertykeyboard8033]

I dont get it. Do you roll it again for it to be played again or

[@KawhackitaRag]

At the end of the roll, the operator needs to manually shift the transmission lever from 'play' to 'rewind'. This shifts the transmission over to rewind the roll quickly, and also activates a big valve called the 'action cutoff' which almost always is on the lower unit of the player action (the one below the keyboard with the exhauster and reservoir bellows etc). This cutoff cuts off the suction to the piano stack, so it doesn't try to play the roll backwards (really fast). There is also another valve called the 'wind motor accelerator' that dumps full suction to the wind motor, bypassing the graduated slot for the tempo control. Automatic player pianos (those that were originally electric, such as expression and reproducing pianos for the home; and coin pianos and orchestrions for public places) have a special dedicated hole for 'rewind' on the roll which comes up and automatically shifts the piano into rewind without an operator. They also have either another hole for 'play' (when the roll is done rewinding), or else a special mechanical device that senses when the roll has fully rewound, and shifts it back. Also, many old home foot pumped player pianos have been 'electrified' with a suction box added, and many of those electrifications also have another pneumatic added for rewind, tubed to the suction supply and then activated by one of the topmost or bottom most note holes on the roll (rarely played by most rolls; most '88 note' piano rolls stick to a compass of about 82 notes, C-A, with some rare exceptions, so as to cause minimal interference when played on reproducing pianos which repurpose the outermost holes for other functions). QRS and some other makers often punched several of the topmost and bottommost note holes together at the end of each roll (starting in the 1920s) so that it would hopefully trip the automatic rewind function on various expression and reproducing piano scales. The suction box, rewind pneumatic, and a metal 'tongue' in the spoolbox (to shut the piano off), were often sold bundled together as a 'kit' (via mail order) by various player piano parts suppliers (like "Player Piano Co." of Wichita, now defunct), from the 1960s onward, as retrofits that could be installed. Most player piano purists cringe at aftermarket-electrified (originally foot-pumped) instruments, since they usually have no added expression units to play any special rolls (unlike original expression and reproducing pianos) and basically just bang/grind out a tune at one volume when they're operating (a properly restored foot pumped player piano can be played with a lot of expression by judicious pedaling and use of the expression levers, giving a musical effect much like a reproducing piano).

[@MattJohno2]

The happy ending: You pass peacefully in your sleep, your memories intact.

[@Stickman_Productions]

You pass peacefully with a door stuck to your face

[@MrDLBMusic]

how does this thing even work

[@splakbor]

what version has the extra lyrics?

[@boogakey]

Wait, is this actually a official verson?

[@Skgwgaietto]

This is the QRS piano roll version of the song.

[@KawhackitaRag]

Yes it was commercially released and nationally distributed like other QRS rolls of this song, so it is indeed an 'official' version. You've got to understand that the pop music industry of the old days wasn't *quite* like today (although there are modern updated versions / continuances of it, for example Max Martin and Britney Spears): while a hit song may have been associated first with one or two famous artists, all pop songs were considered fair game for everyone to 'cover', without accusation of 'plagiarism' (which is when you steal part of a song more or less note-for-note, but fob it off as a 'different' song without giving the composers credit / royalties, and quite different from a legit 'cover'), or without much public griping about 'cover versions' (which was not even a legit gripe in those days, since for the most part, most composers/lyricists did NOT perform, at least as singers (special 'songwriter showcase' vaudeville acts excepted); and most famous pop singers did NOT write their own material. That was pretty much the norm for popular music (usually, covering OTHER PEOPLE'S tunes) up until the advent of The Beatles. Once in a great while an artist came along who was both an exceptional performer AND composer, but in those days they were the exception to the rule. There was a 'division of labor' in those days, where the composers and the performers were mostly separate, and many performers could (and did) 'cover' a composers' song, without shame (and the composer loved it so long as the performer didn't mangle the tune, and the composer(s)/lyricst(s) got the proper credit and royalties; this was however mainly up to the sheet music PUBLISHER / copyright holder, to whom the composer was/is beholden).

[@enricotp4539]

Wow that's sick

[@Alessandro.h]

Beautiful arrangement, but... no score? 🥺

[@firyisepic]

song genre name?