MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS LOUIS 1904 Victor Record Played On Victor II "Humpback" Phonograph
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- Опубликовано: 14 окт 2024
- Here is one of my absolute favorite songs to play on the music boxes and the phonographs in my collection. From 1904, this is the fabulous "Meet Me In St. Louis, Louis" by Kerry Mills and dedicated to the great 1904 St. Louis World's Fair. For those who have been enjoying my Mira music box version of this song I decided to offer this early Victor recording of the song as sung by S.H. Dudley. The phonograph is my Victor II "humpback" Talking Machine. This particular model has a peculiar "hump" on the rear of the cabinet that is unique to this model only and was never repeated on successive Victor models. I hope you enjoy the video and thanks, as always, for your visit.
Thank you for preserving this so that we can listen to it in 2022. Absolutely amazing. I enjoyed this.
I love the tune! After hearing it, I wish I could take a little trip down to St. Louis again. After all, it's been over 10 years. But once I get there, there's no doubt in my mind that this is what I'll be singing once I see the Arch.
In about 1962 an old woman living next door to me died. The day they threw out most of her old posessions I was in school. My mother said to me "Oh you should have seen the old things thrown out, there was a record player with a big horn on it". Even back then, when those were not valuable I really wanted one. I was so upset that I wasn't home to grab it out of the trash.
"he read it just once and he cried"
@@gunnarthefeisty Later on in my life I became like the guys on the TV show "Pickers". I was only a teen but my best friend had an old van. You would not believe the stuff thrown out on trash night in the Boston suburbs circa 1969 to late 1970s. Beautiful "oak" tables and chairs and any array of antiques you could think of. At that time these items were just on the dawn of becoming valuable......old piano stools, 78 rpm records, victrolas, spitoons, cathedral/tombstone radios. I certainly am not a person of academic intellect but I was absolutely sure these would be valuable soon. I filled my parents basement with old crank Victrolas, glassware, furniture (they were very tollerent)...........it paid off after 10 years of holding on to them.
@@inkey2 that's amazing
@@gunnarthefeisty I even had a Thomas Edison record player. The records were like an inch thick (no, not Edison "cylnders")........I paid a neighbor 12 dollars for it (that's like....15 English Pounds?). She didn't want to take the money. She just wanted the "junk" out of her basement. I paid her anyway. I have so many stories about that period. In fact if you are interested I'll tell you how I found thousands of dollars worth of WW1 military recruiting posters by accident.
@@inkey2 that's awesome. Those edison discs (and machines) are built like tanks... throw one at a wall and the wall will break first.
love it. my great-grandmother went to the fair in st. louis in '04. i grew up in st.louis and always enjoyed the few buildings that survived in forest park where the fair took place. still rings of a magical time even now. thanks.
It’s strange how these recordings are like a Time Machine taking us back to our ancestors. Hearing a voice from over a 100 years ago I wonder if they could ever have imagined people not yet born would listen. There is something so visceral and real about the gramophone the horn the recording and the acoustic that makes the whole experience so haunting and wonderful. For me my grandparents were young teens when this was recorded and thinking of the lives they led it’s incredible 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
It sounded very "Rustic" Thanks for posting this rare recording playing on your Victor II "Humpback" Phonograph :) Never got to hear the complete song in the film !
what a machine its not only beautiful but its sound it wonderful I could hear the strings playing pizzicato
Nice version of this song, I like it! And a beautiful phonograph too!
You are Awesome! I can only dream of having a music box like yours!
What a fabulous piece of music (and history too!) I, too loved the info and close-up of the machine.
👍👏😊♥️🇺🇸 Thanks for showing this
WOW I have never heard this song other then in the Judy Garland movie ..Thank you so much for posting this ..Loved it.
Thank you for sharing the wonderful story. It is my pleasure in sharing this.
Very nice early version of this. The orchestra has that quaint calliope sound. And an apropos GP label with the St. Louis Exposition first prize designation! I have an Edison goldmoulded 2M cylinder of it sung by Billy Murray.
and update--I was thrilled to get my own copy of 2807. Plays nice on my Victor VI. The record was made May 16, 1904, initially issued on Victor Monarch Record label.
It's amazing to ponder, that at one time, this was the newest technology- state of the art :P
Great song and nice machine
The movie Meet Me in St. Louis brought me here
This made my whole day ! CLASSIC ! !
@teloyquude I certainly agree with you. To go back in time - to that time - would be wonderful even for just a short time.
Thank you for doing this. It's a whole era of music that not too many people today know of. Wow, most of these are still in immaculate condition seeing how they are 100 yrs old plus each!
@PianoLove1968 just imagine in this day and age of digital mp3's, kids with cellphones, and 1000 channels on tv with nothing to watch, only about 100 years ago families used to gather in their living rooms together around these old machines and think it was magical that sound could come out of them like that- and for some reason, my heart years for those days.
I’d rethink that comment.
Doug, I was really surprised to learn that this rendition existed. I had always assumed that Billy Murray alone recorded it for Victor. I compared the serial number on your disc (2807) with the one on mine (2850). Victor actually released two vocal renditions at about the same time. As you know, the norm was to release one vocal and one instrumental rendition. I imagine they were expecting this to be quite a hit!
another stunning machine,so pretty!
That was fun. Thanks for sharing it.
Could someone post the lyrics? They're different from the musical's and from what can be found on the net. Thanks in advance.
AWESOME !!!
@EdisonSquirrel Thanks Rocky! Interesting comments. The catalog number on this record is earlier than yours which could perhaps mean that Victor decided that Murray's version might sell better too. I also have the Billy Murray version on Victor but have only seen this one example of this song on Victor by S.H. Dudley.
Nice intro to the song. 👊
My pleasure. Thank you.
I am a huge fan of the music from the HBO series 'boardwalk empire' this reminds me of that....
@Westtoledoguy Thanks! Your comments are always interesting and always appreciated. Stop in again anytime!
@chompo7 Thanks as always chompo! Your comments are always appreciated!
@Lucius1958 Thanks so much for stopping in!
@eleventhdr Thanks for the nice comments. Good to hear that you enjoyed this.
LOVELY !
Very interesting version of the song!
Video popped up out of nowhere I wish you would have cranked it first lol
Recorded on May 16, 1904.
@mayatatyana1 You are very welcome!
cool
@urbanexplorer1996 Thank you!
does anyone know what year the record came out?
this was recorded May 16th 1904
+Gregory Noyola Would you happen to know when it was published?
the first of July 1904 was the release date
Recorded on May 16, 1904.
I just thought St. Louis was fake from the movie I didn’t think it was real till I read these comments 💀
@d14d You could see alot of structure and design that's still in use to this day.