Another acoustic that contains simulated railroad sounds that I forgot --
and it's one of my favorite vintage records -- is Arthur Collins' "Railroad
Rag"
on Columbia.
UD
Lebanon, OH
On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 11:41 AM, David Lewis <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> By the way, I did not see, or receive this message at all in my inbox.
> I copied it out of the trail of someone's ARSCList digest. I wonder
> why I didn't see it.
>
> Two of Homer Rodeheaver's versions of "Life's Railway to Heaven" both
> begin with the sound of a bell, whistle and train starting up and
> riding off to the distance. The second one was on Vocalion 14339, made
> in April 1922 and it sounds great on the red disc pressing. The first
> is on the second version of Rainbow 1003; it's an early Chicago-made
> Rodeheaver Labs recording made perhaps a month or two before the
> Vocalion disc; I just heard it for the first time a couple of days
> ago. The sound effects are not quite as effective as on Vocalion, nor
> timed as well.
>
> Homer recorded it once more as a duet with Virginia Asher in June 1924
> on Columbia 165-D. I haven't been able to find that particular record
> just yet, so I don't know if the special effects were employed again.
>
> best,
>
> Uncle Dave Lewis
> Lebanon OH
>
> > Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2013 02:37:14 -0400
> > From: Art Shifrin <[log in to unmask]>
> > Subject: R.R. trains: simulated and actualities on early grooved media
> > INFO WANTED
> >
> > The earliest disk that I've identified is 7" Zonophone B9659 "Chicago
> > Limited" ("Descriptive"). It starts with a nephew greeting his uncle
> as
> > the latter departs. "All aboard' is announced, followed by a whistle &
> > bell. The orchestra plays a proto-version
> > of Duke's "Daybreak Express". A clacking device (rotated I suspect
> because
> > of the control of the changing speeds) provides the chuffing. The
> > quality's too good for this to be an acid-etched recording. The disk's
> NOT
> > needle gouged!
> >
> > Does a catalog or other printed info that lists or refers to this
> survive?
> > If so, then I'd like to obtain a scan.
> >
> > see
> >
> > http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5515971/Trains/Zonophone%20B9659.jpg
> >
> > I'm very interested to know about other such early cylinders and disks.
> >
> > The most precious (to me) actuality that I have is a Gennett 10" that
> > contains an on-location recording of
> > the City Of San Francisco, which was an early (30s) streamlined train.
> >
> > Of those that I've *heard*, my musical favorites are
> >
> > Billy Murray's Edison of "On The 5:15"
> > "Casey Jones Blues" by Blanche Calloway (Victor)
> > and Duke's "Daybreak Express"
> >
> > The most repressed is
> > the Edison DD of "Casey Jones" credited to Billy Jones but alleged to be
> > someone else
> > (whose name I can't recall now)
> >
> > Shiffy
>
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