Tagged: antique

NEW pop project Biggles Flys Again had its debut album out at the end of March. And to mark the release of Remember Saturday, the group is offering up a free mp3 download of Old Pop Song . A spokesman said: "Conor Deasy set out to make a pop album with traditional values and he didn't leave anything to chance as many of the instruments used during the recording were of the antique variety. "Allied to the BBC Neve recording desk, Hammond organ and Yamaha keyboards was a keen pop sensibility which has drawn comparisons to [...]

• Biggles Flys Again - Old Pop Song

There’s a new label in town, and, as a way of introducing themselves, they are giving us all a little treat. To celebrate the label’s first month, Hand Eye Records is releasing a free compilation of a few songs by their artists. The Wild Honey Pie is premiering the stream of this compilation above. Tracklisting: 1. "About Us" (album release date: TBD) -  Four Visions 2. "I Am Trying" (album out 4/9/13) -  German Error Message 3. "Loh Dalum Bay" (album out 3/12/13) -  Baobab [...]

• Hand Eye Records - Hand Eye Records Compilation

"Oh, the shark bites With his teeth, dear And he shows them pearly white..." Yeah, you know it, "Mack The Knife", #3 on Billboard's Top 100 Songs ever . You've heard it a million times, from Bobby Darin's #1 hit version in 1959, to countless crooners ever since. But who first recorded it? [...]

Frank has not been backwards about joining the Free Week fun, and have joined forces with Vivogig ( The live-music-photo-sharing app + website ) and Whitesiren to bring some of the finest free shows this side of 6th street. Tonight they've got Mobley , The Shears , Les Rav , and Ashleigh Stone on tap. Tomorrow night Whitman [...]

Tim from Radio Clash asked me if I had the Tiny Tim/Bruce Haack album "Zoot Zoot Zoot Here Comes Santa In His New Space Suit." Alas, I don't - do any of you out there have this true meeting of outsider musical minds? It's as rare as a complete dinosaur skeleton, and about as expensive. But the query did send me poking thru the Tiny Tim things that I do have, such as this extraordinary tape of some anonymous person recording what is apparently a concert for one in Tiny's apartment [...]

Hey, look what I found! Antioch Shriner's Hat - $5 - Ceaser's Creek, Ohio

You can now give a the full album from Julian Koster's The Music Tapes a listen, the album officially came out September 4th, but has been put on soundcloud by Merge records. The album is called Mary's Voice and is about as odd and whimsical as one would come to expect for this member of the Elephant 6 Collective. Koster is known especially in this project to use organic sounds and just generally antique technology that makes his recordings sound old, but somehow rich with sound at the same time. It's a contradiction that I'm not sure works all of the time for me personally, [...]

• The Music Tapes - Mary's Voice

He was a goofy-looking bucktoothed little guy who sang funny songs with titles like "Swimmin' With The Wimmin" in a high, thin voice, while playing something called a 'banjolele' (a cross between a banjo and a ukulele.) He was also Britain's single most popular entertainer in the late '30s. Many dozens of George Formby Jr's cheerful, clever, sometimes naughty double-entendre (i.e.: " With My Little Ukulele in My Hand ") songs have been put up [...]

Yep, only three known copies of this Edison wax cylinder from 1888 exist, which would certainly make this one of the most historically prized recordings ever. But it's also a good listen. The "song" heard here is an excerpt from classical composer Handel's "Israel In Egypt" sung by, to quote a note on the cylinder: "A chorus of 4000 voices recorded with phonograph over 100 yards away." Conducted by August Manns; recorded by Col. George Gouraud, foreign sales agent for Thomas Edison [...]

• "Israel In Egypt" - excerpt » EDIS-SRP-0154-17.mp3

Last week, the LA Times reported that Millennials “seem to have little use for old movies” while Hypebot reported that for the first time since Nielsen SoundScan started tracking album sales in 1991, “old records have outsold new ones.” Digital consumers see music and film as two different experiences, even though ...

Australian brothers Adam and Sam Sherry release their debut EP Antique, 5 songs of sinister proportions.

Another odd bit of musical obscurity...I've been using this pic for a background for a while: not really knowing what that large, strange stringed musical instument was. But thanks to valuable info submitted to us by Outaspaceman , I can tell you that it's a bass banjo, and that there used to be groups like Raymond and His Famous Banjo Band, a seven-banjo (!) British combo featured in this video of a 1937 performance: [...]

Clarinetist/bandleader Wilbur Sweatman helped invent jazz, but before you start falling asleep, let me assure you that this 1918 recording of "Oh! You La! La!" is as nutty as it's title. Many many decades before hardcore punk, thrash metal, etc., this song is played like everyone's on speed, and everyones' speed is on speed. It's so crazed as to verge on incompetent, like it's all gonna fly part at any second. But what else would you expect from a guy who could play 3 clarinets at the [...]

There really are people who think that the Earth is flat, just like it says in the Bible, regardless of what you see in pictures from space. Obviously, those pictures were faked. By who? By... The Conspiracy , of course. I believe that the Flat Earth Society were thus the first to promote that moonlanding-was-faked nonsense. Which brings us to Lady Blount. Wiki sez: "Lady Elizabeth Blount, wife of the explorer Sir Walter de Sodington Blount, established a Universal Zetetic Society, whose objective was " the propagation of knowledge related to [...]

Freddie Fisher & The Schnickelfritz Band were a great novelty band from the 1930s, pre-dating Spike Jone's debut in 1942, and if their music has a familiar sound to readers of this blog, they should - most of the members left band leader Fisher and formed the Korn Kobblers . A nice person has posted an album of Fisher & Co. songs of wildly-varying sound quality, but hey, it's free, so who can complain? Gonna have to find an album by these guys. For further study... Freddie Fisher & The Schnickelfritz Band

Jewelry is one of the things most people invest on. Their value usually increases as they age. Those which were produced during the 1930s to 1950s are considered antique and they are expensive. Because of this, people collect different kinds of antiques. Collectors should take utmost care when buying antique rings and other jewelries because some people will take advantage of a person's lack of knowledge regarding antiques. There are people who offer fake antique gold rings. A thorough scrutiny on the item will keep one from being fooled by these forgers. A jewelry that is antique is [...]

. . . Finding the good things in life sometimes requires taking a blind leap of faith into the unknown. That's me at age 11, staring at a cardboard box illustrated with a reptilian hand, musing that a game called "X-Com: Terror From The Deep" just had to be good. That's me at 22, eating a co-worker's wife's sautéed asparagus to avoid giving insult. That's me at 18, staring at the cover of A Fire Upon The Deep and A Deepness in the Sky , buying them both simply because the titles were so cool. [...]

" Ray Bourbon had a show business career as a comedian and female impersonator that spanned over fifty years, well into an era when Gay liberation would take shape. He was perhaps the most well-known and well-traveled performer in Gay venues during the last century, but he remains largely forgotten today, his comedy both [...]

D ebuting in the early 1930s, The Hoosier Hot Shots where one of the first, and best, novelty groups of the 78 rpm era, and if you can't figure out what they were like from the song title "From The Indies To The Andes In His Undies," well, pardner, there ain't much I can tell ya. Listen to me, talking like a hayseed - that's what listening to these guys will do to you. But despite their "rural" schtick, they were actually plenty sophisticated, essentially playing hot jazz with as much virtuosic [...]

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