Soundies Of The 1940s
The First Music Videos
Volumes 1 & 2
2 DVD Set
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Volume 1
Step aside MTVers listen, learn and watch who really started music
videos. Who you ask, why the soundies of the 1940s.
This DVD of soundies is sure to bring back a lot of memories. Enjoy the
talents of Harry Day and Della and the June Taylor Girls, Euterpe Jones,
Captain Beefheart; Reg Kehoe and His Marimba Queens, Rosalie Allen, The
Mel-Tones, Thelma White and Her All-Girl Orchestra, Del Casino and his
orchestra, Three Canadian Capers, Maya's Pan-American Orchestra and Carlos
and Zedra, Ginger Harmon and the Mercer Brothers.
Harry Day and Della and the June Taylor Girls, The Singing Powers Models
which features Jimmie Dodd, Lamp of Memory which is directed by Reginald
LeBorg and stars Yvonne DeCarlo.
Believe me you will be enthralled by not only the era, but the songs and the
abundant amount of talent, back in the day. So sit back in your chair and,
for over an hour of great times, let the
soundies of the 30s and 40s take you away.
Euterpe Jones Captain Beefheart Rocks The Marimba Queens 2:38 (This
version is black and white)
"Ten Pretty Girls" and "I'll Make You Mine" (1930s) 3:05
Chime Bells (1943) 2:37
Lullaby of Broadway 2:41
Reg Kehoe and his Marimba Queens (ca. early 1940s) 2:24
Hollywood Boogie (1946) 2:26
One Look At You (ca. 1940s) 2:29
Mexican Hat Dance 2:01
A Little Robin Told Me So 1:57
Havana-Madrid Show (1941) 5:36
Tica Ti Tica Ta 2:56
Jiveroo 2:36
In A Shanty In Old Shanty Town (ca 1940s) 2:25
Who's Yehudi? (ca. 1942) 2:49
What This Country Needs (1941) 2:34
Same Old Story 2:21
Lamp Of Memory (1944) 2:47
We start this fascinating DVD with a Command Performance (1942) 18:58.
The 1942 movie Command Performance, offers a wonderful view of the legendary
RCA Victor vault and the pressing plant in Camden. The movie takes us on a
journey of how shellac records were produced and manufactured.
While others were taking their allowance buying comic books, toys and the
like, I would faithfully take my 25 cents and buy 1 or if there was a sale
two 45 records and as I got older and got a dollar for allowance (I know I
just dated myself) I sometimes got to buy five or six 45s or if I saved I
went and bought an album. I still have many of those today.
For those who love vinyl and history, the movie is a must see, as we get to
see how things used to be made and Command Performance does an excellent job
of showing us, from the opening moments of talking about the greats, and
hearing the great Johann Strauss, Blue Danube Waltz.
We see the master discs from which records were pressed, the complete record
making process in fantastic detail, how recordings are made, the equipment
used, cutting an original wax disc, electroplating it into a metal master
disc, making a stronger mother disc from the master, and making stamping
discs from those. Mixing the shellac, stamping the records, all the
ingredients that go into the record making process, along with the people
and the various jobs they do, to get the music out to us.
You will be enthralled for close to 19 minutes as you watch how all those
records you have listened to and played over the years are made. As an added
bonus the movie ends with a family putting an album onto one of the “Magic
Eye" units of the time, that plays both sides of the record, having two tone
arms, one above the other. Ah, “Those Were The Days”!
After seeing this process, you can really appreciate the ease of which we
can record music today. One of the programs we use to make our own DVDs
allows direct recording of over 20 individual live tracks. It’s amazing how
great the old records sounded when you see what they had to go through to
get those sounds to you.
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Volume 2
In Volume 2 of The Originator of Music Videos –
Soundies, we get to enjoy the talents of Henny Youngman. In the soundie
Sweet Sue, Just You, the song's words and music are by Will Harris and
Victor Young, and performed by Six Hits & A Miss and the all-women Lorraine
Page Orchestra. You will also get to enjoy Kay Lorraine, Merle Pitt's Five
Shades of Blue, and Frank Wilcox as the porter. Carolyn Marsh with Ray Bloch
and His Orchestra, Billy Burt, Gai Moran, Danny Hocktor, The Three Suns,
Emil Coleman and His Orchestra with vocals by June Barton, a song from the
Broadway show "Ziegfield Follies Of 1912" (William Jerome / James V.
Monaco), . The Gordonairs of Fred Waring's Pennsylvanians and The University
Chorus.
Believe me you will be enthralled by not only the era, but the songs and the
abundant amount of talent, back in the day. So sit back in your chair and,
for over an hour of great times,
let the soundies of the 30s and 40s take you away.
Euterpe Jones The Marimba Queens Trip On Beefheart
2:38 (This version is colorized)
Our Teacher (1943) 2:42
Heaven Help A Sailor On A Night Like This (ca
1940s) 2:35
Hawaiian Hula Song (ca. 1940s) 1:51
Sweet Sue (Just You) 3:09
I Don’t Want To Walk Without You 3:01
I Can't Give You Anything but Love (1941) 2:42
Stardust 2:47
A Jazz Etude (1941) 2:39
Zig Me Baby with a Gentle Zag (1941) 2:20
Beyond The Blue Horizon (1944) 2:21
Surrender (maybe Perry Como check it out) 2:31
Got To Be This or That (1945) 2:24
Once In A While (ca 1941) 2:52
Row Row Row 2:35
Rambling Wreck from Georgia Tech 2:06
Fiesta 2:48
We start this fascinating DVD with the 1956 movie, Sound And The Story
starts with a women putting the Romeo and Juliet album in her RCA Victor
record player. This took me back to evenings with my mom and dad when we
would put Madame Butterfly in ours and sit and listen.
The Sound and The Story tells us how vinyl records are made. I loved the
step by step process involved, starting by taking us to Boston and showing
us a recording being done of “Romeo And Juliet” by the Boston Symphony. We
learned about the three requirements for Hi-Fidelity recording (full dynamic
range; natural balance between all sections and instrument and the frequency
range).
Then we are off to New York City to transfer the recorded sound form tape
to a lacquer master. Our lacquer master is then sent to Indianapolis,
Indiana which was one of three processing plants to which a lacquer master
might go. We then see our lacquer master become a mold, and then finally,
the dupes of the mold. We start in production control and move on to
packaging, the shipping control room and then finish in shipping and
distribution. All of the steps involved are explained in an easy to
understand manner, I was absolutely enthralled and amazed watching it all.
The movie is a wonderful testament to the vinyl record, not only in it’s job
of explaining the process, but making it so exciting and interesting while
doing it. As a lover of all things vinyl, I never knew all they went through
to make the recordings I still treasure today. Speaking of treasure, I was
green with envy watching the ending which is full of album covers from all
genre’s of music. So me wish I had a time machine to take me back to grab
all those albums for my collection. The album cover with Yehudi Menuhin,
made me think of the soundie on this collection Who’s Yehudi?
So sit back, relax and take a trip from Boston, to NY and Indianapolis for
the next twenty three and a half minutes, without leaving home. Believe me
you will enjoy it.
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