Billy Murray sings- I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now - from 1909 on a Victor II Gramophone
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- Опубликовано: 25 фев 2009
- Here is Billy Murray (1877-1954), one of the most popular singers on Gramophone records during the first two decades of the 20th Century, singing "I wonder who's kissing her now" from the Musical "The Prince of To-Night" composed by Joseph Howard. The record is an original Victor 10" 78rpm from 1909, and this 100 year old recording is being played on a Victor Type II Gramophone from 1905.
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I'm interested in historic films and recordings. So many of these artists have been forgotten, or this case, not even heard of. I applaud RUclips for bringing these priceless items to us and of course the people who upload them for all to see and hear. This is amazingly clear for 1909.
Yes I have a 1921 Redish-Brown Colored 78 rpm Record and I cannot find anything for information on the 2 songs of which are on the record. So I uploaded on RUclips here the 2 songs on one of my other channels and soon will do the same with this one.
I wish my Father was still alive to see and listen to this ! It was his favorite song. He used to sing it every time he had a bit to much to drink. Me and my sister would always laugh so hard. Thank you for bringing back a wonderful memory for me
The sound quality of this is really amazing. Not one harsh note. Looks like a very nice machine and a great example record. Really shows off the ability of these things when they were new.
Thank you for your kind comments. What makes the condition of this record even more remarkable is the fact that it has a store sticker on it that indicates it was originally sold by a Victor dealer in San Francisco, and some how over the years found its way to the east coast where I am located.
just beautiful,just beautiful-they do NOT make music like this anymore.i love this song
@bill3murr This wonderful man was my great uncle - he was married to my mother's aunt Madeline for a very long time. It's wonderful to know his music is still appreciated and loved !!!!
Love this songs. The music from the early 1900s were great
Loved the lyrics!!! Billy Murray would be very surprised to see that relationships are pretty much the same today LOLOL
Billy Murray is an awesome singer.
Beautiful. 1909 ,the year my grandma was born. Thank you for sharing these wonderful gems.
Great song from Billy Murray ! Thank's for the upload !
i would love a phonagraph with billy murray records
I have a very worn copy of this Billy Murray favorite - a great and endearing recording. It was one of the first acoustic records I ever obtained in my personal record collection. I played it for my then 85 year old father who remarked that his father used to sing it when he was a kid. Thanks for posting your video of it on your authentic Victor machine, Bruce.
Just fantastic. Thank you for sharing. It has such a different type of sound than modern tech, but so much charecter, it paints a picture of how our parents and grandparents got to enjoy their favourite tunes. I can still see my grandad with his headphones of in the senties. He would shout while he spoke with them on. I do it now in my hissing ears. lol
Yeah, I know this video is 10 years old, but this is how you make a record video. No talking...just show the label and let the record speak for itself.
I hate when they talk.
Wonder how many times I have watched this video, I love it.
Phew. I just pieced a gramophone I picked up at auction - back together again. I’ve always seen VICTROLAS - and figured this was another one.
Nope.
It’s a GARRARD no. 20 motor inside an ornate wooden cabinet with a big tin horn. Never seen anything like it - and it had me scrambling for info.
She’s back together now, and playing nicely - although how the whole shebang is just suspended below the turntable by a couple of screws…?
Go figure.
Love the Billy Murray - thanks for the treat.
Love the old gramaphone sound...surprisingly clear! ,,,,thankyou!
My grandfather’s favorite song. I learned to sing it and still remember every word but this is the first time I hear the verses. Thank you for sharing. It brings back a lovely memory.
Chillin on roof listening to this. day dreaming
Vexsis Comics I'm always am daydreaming when i hear this song 😉😊
Beautiful machine.
Just wonderful, great sound, beautiful machine, I keep playing this over & over !!
I really appreciate how many of Billy's recordings have shown up here. The first one I heard was The Little Old Ford which was on a great compilation of novelty tunes. I like this one as well so thanks for sharing it. Very unique and happily acquired taste!
ahhh. my mother used this song as a lullaby when i was a baby to get me to go to sleep...love it. thanks. billy is the best.
Beautiful machine ...classic song of love
Great! I had never heard the second verse before. I love it. I originally heard the son back in the late '60s, on the album "Winchester Cathedral" by "The New Vaudeville Band", and I fell in love with it then. I still love it, some fifty years later.
This is a great recording--Billy Murray is tops. I am ashamed to admit I'd not heard the verse before but it all makes sense now. And your Victrola is beautiful. Thanks for posting!
Great for morale.
thank you, so glad you are enjoying these Billy Murray videos. Unfortunately youtube recently revamped its' website, and it is extremely difficult now to put up the words on the screen for these wonderful old songs, and on my most recent videos you will not find the words on the screen. Thanks for watching.
wonderful! thanks for preserving these wonderful songs and playing them on the phonographs that match the time period! Awesome
I'm a singer. Half of a duo. This song is on our playlist. Love it.
Bill Murray, you are fantastic! this recording sounds marvellous and the old gramophone is sensational.
@catwomn64 How wonderful to hear from a relative of the wonderfully talented Mr. Billy Murray. Thanks so much for watching and leaving the comment. Also please check out all of the other great Billy Murray records I have posted on my Victrolaman Channel. You will find a wonderful variety of the songs he made famous, both as a solo artist, as lead singer of the American Quartet, and also some wonderful duets with Ada Jones. There are Billy Records from the early 1900's - late 20's. So enjoy !
Wow, 100 years and still works just fine. This must have been such a huge breakthrough back then.
I Love Billy Murray songs!
Loving it.
Great presentation. To think that the recording is 100 yrs old and still sounds so good!
Sounds better than any mp3!
Wonderful !! It is lovely to hear the verses. I have not heard them sung before.
Thank you for sharing this fine post.
That is one valuable record...
my father use to sing this soung in the car all the time he is gone now little things I miss
that is so ture-wish we lived back in the 1900's now those were the days.
Very cool. That you gave an original record an a gramophone. Wow. Thank you for posting.
i love this song so much. i discovered while doing research for history.
Fantastic. Love this song by anyone...
I just started collecting Billy Murray 78s records. I want this vinyl so bad! I can't find it anywhere
GoBackT0Sleep I don't think billy Murray vinyl exists. Only very early records such as this made of fragile shellac
78 rpm records are made of shellac and if you be a fool with them they break
A vague memory from childhood brought into focus. Thanks to you. DRd. (Frieda Herbe). Now.
How did I just find this? Another of your videos for my favorites list.
i absolutely love songs from the Great War
That looks like a really cool store label on there! Nice phono too!
Nice! One of my favorites by Murray is "Big Bad Bill". Hilarious!
No, some of these old discs are still in great shape, because they were found in storage albums, thus there waxy glow was protected for all these years.
Back in the late 30s when I was about 9. We lived in a house that my folks rented that was furnished. It had a Victrola similar to the one in the Video, but it had a standup cabinet to hold records. There were 2 records by Billy Murray. One was Freckles Was His Name and the other was my favorite When Francis Dances With Me. Even thou the record is about a man, I liked the record because my favorite aunt was Frances. My mother would buy 10ct pack of steel needles for it. Steel needles was what was used back then for this type Victrola. They would wear out after 7 or 8 times they played. The needles were also hard on records. It looks like this Victrola still has the knobbed head screw that holds the needle in place. I was wondering if still uses for steel needles?
Yes, it does, but you were advised by the Company, to change the steel needles after every other play, You are correct, if you do not do that, you can wear out and destroy the grooves in the record. I have never had a problem using new steel needles as long as I change them after every other, or even every play. Thank you for watching the Victrolaman Channel.
@desoto1961 I keep playing it over too-its just beautiful
@m2tt7 That is true. There are some people from a young age group who do still find this music lovly (Im 15) and I believe that it could maybe be brought back, however not in the same format withe the same beauty and essence as it was then. People from the 1900s didnt have to listen to the grap we got to listen to in music nowadays so, they cherished the beauty of the usic itself more.
Notice that the written verse goes "I wonder who's teaching her how?" But on the record it is sung "I wonder who's teaching her NOW?" Could that have been censorship? Was the original line considered risque at the time?
possibly. On the Edison Version of He'd have to get under get out and get under, Murray changes the lyrics to "I have a daughter who I know you'll just love" instead of the written lyrics of "I have a daughter who is hungry for love". The old man did this quite often, he did not like songs or lyrics of a Suggestive nature. BUT on the Victor version of the same record, Murray does repeat the suggestive lyrics, which would lead one to believe that in this version of the Song Murray may have just misread the lyrics and used now instead of how. and they let it go.
I was born in the wrong era.:'(
I’ll Just Hera This Sing In A Café Windering Simeón Telegraphs Me ;)
do you digitize all of these into files?
Actually composed by Harold Orlob
@falumpi oh darinid i forgot to get some gas for the car... do you know where i can get some plutonium? My Delorian won't start without it and then we can't leave :(
how many gramophones do you have?
Just change a couple words and this could be the raunchiest song of all time
how many gramophones does he have?
Majority of your acoustical records have been worn out by the victor needles, thats why they sound so scratchy.
@falumpi i'm building a time machine to go back to buy some records! Want to go with me? :D
I cant find anything on the musical this is from, how depressing that its story context is lost to time
Think Howard was lying about who wrote this. Murray had great diction...