"I WANT TO BE BAD" Fabulous 1929 Golden Gate Orchestra Hot Jazz on Edison B-200 Phonograph

[@RobynMcIntyre]

I'm really glad people like you have these hobbies and are generous enough to share your patience and the fruits of your labour.

[@dariowiter3078]

Without these hobbies, Robyn, these people wouldn't be interesting in the first place. =)

[@reggiesmith3866]

REAL Music!!

[@amberola1b]

This one went right into my favorites, The Edison co. made such great dance records right before he went out of business, that it`s a shame he could`nt have gone on into the mid 30`s and beyond to record some nice long 5 minute jazz records with plenty of leg room for those hot solos that we`ve come to love on his records

[@BFDT-4]

Health and vigor is what he sang!

[@Ronald070]

What a great sound this machine gives!

[@loretsdad]

LOVE this record. Thank you for sharing your collection with all of us. Soon, I will join you and start recording my collection too. I've got 3-500 records.

[@josephconsoli4128]

I thought I knew so much about 78's, but I would've seriously lost a bet as to if there was hot jazz on Edison Diamond Disks! Next to "Let's Misbehave" this was about as naughty as it got at the time. I thought Edison demanded certain standards. This one must sell for a kingly sum these days.

[@weiner1961]

Wow, it sounds great !!!!!!!! Thank you so much !!!!

[@gnarlyasmr]

This is so good omg. Wish I could go out and swing dance again. 😭

[@beez1717]

😭

[@bobbyroy84]

OH! MY DEAR GOD! This is a AWESOME Record Indeed!

[@MyDiesel101]

Great Song! Beautiful machine! Thank you for sharing. In my humble opinion the Edison DD was decades ahead of Victor and Columbia in technology and sound quality. There ia a certain "Presence" that fills the room with a good DD recording played on a excellant machine, such as yours. You have a wonderful sense of history.

[@glennmillerfan]

I agree. The late 1920s electrically recorded Diamond Discs usually sound better than a late 1950s 78RPM recording.

[@allybc]

I' only know Helen Kane's version. This is awesome. Thanks for sharing!

[@foxtrotgin]

Simply fabulous! Amazing machine and recording. Really perfect sounding Edison machine, Thanks for sharing!

[@Lucius1958]

Just......... WOW.

[@alfonsopereira1657]

Un lujo, pura acústica!!!! Gracias.

[@johnamalfitano429]

Yes..its "plenty of heaaalllth..and vigor." A clever play on words. Lol. Great sound on this reproducer!

[@MusicBoxBoy]

Thanks Chompo. Yes, I would agree and this was surely much of the reason why this Edison record is so rare to find today.

[@danielmkubacki]

Cool ! I love it! Nice player.

[@jeanboyadjoglou7725]

tout simplement fabuleux !!!!!!

[@Borriaudio]

Great sounding record and machine! This is super record.

[@kristinefaust7150]

Love the phonograph

[@Idelia412]

Very nice and I must say very rare tune on a Diamond Disc....Nice Post!

[@MusicBoxBoy]

Thanks for your gracious comments. I have also been enjoying the very well done videos on your channel. I recently purchased an Edison B-80 in quarter sawn oak (very pretty figured grain) and particularly enjoyed the narrative video you prepared on your mahogany B-80. I have a mahogany B-80 and mahogany A-80 in the collection but the quarter sawn oak of either model had eluded me until recently. Keep up the great work on the videos on your channel!

[@MusicBoxBoy]

Thank you! I'm pleased to hear that you enjoyed this.

[@brucemercer8458]

I love this record, better than the Ermine Calloway version on a Needle Cut Thanks for posting it.

[@conradhailparn4356]

a fine record, thx!

[@MusicBoxBoy]

Thanks! Good to hear that you enjoyed this.

[@amiedetherese]

Great! Thanks!

[@Westtoledoguy]

what a wonderful DD

[@Bigband78]

Sounds Great ,almost like an orthophonic Victor.

[@agesagomusic08]

AWESOME! :) thanks for posting.. always a pleasure to see your videos and your posts..you truely have some amazing pieces of history in your collection..Im glad you share the same passion that i do!

[@idonttrustbarry2629]

Wonderful

[@luismantaras6460]

A very clear sound and how clean was this disc!! That chimes... The rendition is very good of course, but the orchestra lacks the basic presence of Rollini and the others and we have only a violin solo. Although a very good dance band, it lose the Ramblers' distinctive sound. Thank you.

[@brucemercer8458]

For some real HOT/ Cool New York Sound" before Rollini sailed for England and Elizade's Orch. in 1927, listen to "Shake" (that thing) in 1926 on 51737 Acoustic. This is what the Golden Gate Orch. was all about.

[@janettewalker3991]

Fabulous!

[@MusicBoxBoy]

Thank you for the nice comments.

[@MusicBoxBoy]

Thanks for the nice comments. I do indeed have the Ermine Calloway version of this tune on Edison Diamond Disc. Although I enjoy Calloway's vocals on that one I prefer this version.

[@leechjim8023]

Is Ermine the same as Cab Calloway?

[@antoniocampagnefilho2136]

parabens

[@chompo7]

love that title,i bet it was kind of scandalous back then!

[@davidglow3]

With Rollini,Davis and Quealey away at the Savoy Hotel in London,the CRs suffer a bit as they no longer have that distinctive sound.They sound like many other US bands

[@mlaprarie]

The line in the song is actually "What can you do when you're loaded with plenty of HEALTH and vigor" which I think is what he sings. But it sounds like he botches the next line. It sounds like he sings, "When the learning the lips are for" when the line from the song is "When you're learning what lips are for". Great record though, thanks for posting!

[@chagall56]

This song was written for a lady and I was told that back then you had to sing songs exactly as they were written. That is why in the early recordings of "I Got Rhythm" by George Gershwin which was also written for a woman, the male singer says "I've got my MAN, who could ask for anything more!". Later on, they relaxed the copyright rules and allowed singers to alter the lyrics that were awkward when sung by the opposite sex.

[@transformingArt]

They have recorded this when the old TAE went out to camping with Henry Ford or someone else. What a nice rendition this is! They should have recorded more stuffs like this instead of too many mediocre ditties that filled their catalog. Many thanks for posting this. BTW, I have heard another rendition of this by Ermine Calloway; do you happen to have that as well?

[@davida.logansr1692]

TAE had turned over control of the Edison phonograph company some time after 1924 and exerted only minor influences on recording. . If memory serves, he turned over control to his Son Charles Edison who then became more contemporary and recorded more and more Jazz and popular songs of the ‘20s. I have been going through my massive collection of DD’s to eliminate things I don’t care for, and try to get back the excessive amount of money I spent on them over the years!

[@xiniapoas]

[@mgconlan]

Wonderful sound quality -- beautiful and clear. I notice the date was 1929 -- was this one of the experiments in electrical recording Edison indulged in during the last two years of his record business? Thank you for posting this.

[@davida.logansr1692]

Yes. It wasn’t an experiment though, the company went fully with Electrical recording after about July of 1927. If memory serves correctly , records numerically from number 52089-are all electrical. I have about 60 of those. They have usually an excellent sound, as someone else noted as good as late ‘50s 78’s!

[@brianramessar6119]

I just bought an Edison diamond disc B-200 phonograph. Any advice on where to find tutorials on restoring and tuning it up?

[@RatPfink66]

G'wan! Pshaw! Applesauce! I always say if you can remember the 20s, you weren't born yet.

[@mikeschannel1616]

Does that phonograph use electronic amplification

[@lindagreaney5136]

I have one of these graphinollas in good condition. Wonder what it’s worth?

[@edsewetoob]

Is this the dance reproducer?

[@sk7228]

❤

[@amiedetherese]

Have you ever learned how to two step the way it way done in the 1920s?

[@mgconlan]

Personnel (from Brian Rust's Jazz Records, 2002 edition): Frank Cush, Phil Napoleon (t), Miff Mole (tb), Carl Orech, Harold Marcus (cl, as), Sam Ruby (ts), Al Duffy (vln), Chauncey Grey (p), Tommy Felline (g), Ward Ley (b-b), Jack Parker (vcl). Aside from Red Nichols' sides for the label, this is probably as hot as Edison Records ever got, though it's a pity the great solo voices like Napoleon and Mole didn't get a chance to cut loose from the arrangement and Al Duffy's violin break makes me wonder what Joe Venuti was doing that week. Also, the "hell"/"health" confusion in the lyric is built into the song, since the rhyme is "well" -- it's clearly meant to give the singer a chance to sound more "bad" than he is. Thanks for this delight!

[@loneprimate]

Wow, the sound quality on 78s really _was_ superior, wasn't it?

[@jimrick6632]

ANY CHANCE YOU COULD UPLOAD THIS IN MP4 SO I CAN PLAY IT THRU MY ROKU????

[@gerica82]

Two minutes of silence?!

[@aleccaprari8664]

Originally sung by Zelma O'Neal but love the Helen Kane version better

[@brucemercer8458]

Nice but please close the lid and record the sound coming out of the horn for the best sound quality. A standard Edison Diamond Disc will play just short of five minutes. Do not use water to clean this type of record, only use alcohol per factory.

[@RatPfink66]

Silly girl - collectors don't dance. -RatPfink66, recovering collector

[@spencerbergquist781]

Why does an electric machine have a crank?

[@anthonystrong9990]

jealous that you have such a thing

[@MusicBoxBoy]

Ha Ha! No...but it sure looks like fun!

[@rosyboa5520]

Too long to wait.

[@demonbarber14]

With all due respect to the singer, I don't think the song is quite right for a somewhat prim sounding man. Or a man at all, really. That being said, it IS a wonderful version!

[@saintmichael1779]

Flappers, Colleen Moore, smoking cigarettes, rolled-down stockings, speakeasies, bathtub gin, petting, bobbed hair and jazz.

[@frankolen4137]

X This should be a female singer

[@rjtwigg1]

They should have gotten a female to do the vocal refrain.

[@audiophile1024]

Oh how I would love to own this record. If you ever consider selling it, please contact me on the talking machine forum. audiophile102

[@michaelshultz2540]

ghosts can be so cool .

[@anaaliyan7761]

"health ... and vigor" it's not "hell"

[@georgedabrowski6900]

Starts on edge of record. How long before you moved the needle onto record? 11 years? Whew. Painful to listen to...

[@KalaSingh-cj7rd]

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