Three Tune Tuesday - January 10
It's time again for Three Tune Tuesday, that day of the week where members of the Hive community shares three songs of their liking with the rest of the community.
I take a slow, relaxing approach to Three Tune Tuesday: I like to share pre-1924 78rpm songs from my collection, and record them while playing on an appropriate time-period windup phonograph. I encourage you to take a few moments and slow down with me. Settle down, close your eyes, and take yourself back.. way back.. in time, to a distant uncle's parlour in the early 1920's. There are comfortable seats, pleasant conversation, and old music.
Today I'm sharing some songs that are a little different, either for this show, or just from a phonograph that I normally would not be able to share from. The first is a German song from the old Homokord label. I wrote a little about this label in a previous post, including an attempt at translation by Google. If anyone speaks or reads German I'd be interested in hearing from you about this song. Regardless of not understanding the song nor the title, the song itself it pretty fun:
The next song is named Rosey Posey. Rosey Posey was recorded on the Pathe label before the 1920's. At the time, Pathe had their own format for recording and playing records which used a "hill and dale" recording style with a sapphire ball stylus to play the records. They ceased using this method in favour of the more traditional "needle cut" formats used by Victor and Columbia in 1920. This record was recorded somewhere between 1916-1920. I currently have one machine - a custom Brunswick - that can play these records (and another that is in need of some repair). I do not have many of these Pathe records, but the few I do have sound fantastic.
The final song of the day is the first of two - Force of Destiny, Part 1. This is a Verde song and performed by the Victor Orchestra, the Victor Talking Machine Company's house orchestra. It's close to four minutes - long for a 78rpm record - and also sounds incredible. It is part 1 of 2; part 2 will be shared next week!
Three Tune Tuesday (TTT) is initiated by @ablaze.
I run a live stream of my TTT songs every Tuesday at 12:00pm EDT, then take that stream and share the songs from it here, on Hive, on Wednesday (or occasionally Thursday). These songs are all old pre-1923 78rpm records from my collection, played on my antique phonographs and recorded with a well placed microphone. Like what you hear? Come listen live!
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Thank you!
As for translating ... @mypathtofire @beeber and @hannes-stoffel are there three German speaking ttters that I know, perhaps they can help ..
Congrats on winning last week👏
I do remember this record label from your previous post and away to listen to these whilst I make dinner!
Thanks for tagging me :-)
My pleasure
Hey, thanks for doing that for me! Greatly appreciated!
Fascinating. How does one get such a collection and player?
Especially such an old German record.
Ok, I did some research and found these are the lyrics:
(Very hard to understand just from listening, the moment the lyrics of the original poem were on my screen I could make out the stanzas they used for the song)
It is part of a poem written by Wilhelm Hauff in 1824 entitled "Horseman's death"
The title I commented on here
Roughly translated it goes:
Morning light, Morning light,
shining on my early death
Soon the trumpets will sound
then I have to give my live
Me and many brothers (in arms)
(First two lines here are tricky, it's an idiom similar to 'easy come, easy go', trying my best)
(it) just began, just began,
now it is (quickly) over.
Yesterday (we were) proud on our horses,
today we got shot in the chest
tomorrow (we go) in our cold graves.
Therefore quiet, therefore quiet,
I do as God tells me
and so I will fight with honor
and (if) I should die
a brave horsemen dies
Wow cool! I really had problems in understanding the Song text.
@wwwiebe is the singer written on the record?
We have a lot of Schellack records in the basement but unfortunately the Player doesnt work anymore
Thanks @tengolotodo for tagging
My pleasure B
Yes! It's the Nebe Quartet. I usually share the artist with the song, but obviously overlooked it this week. Thanks for allowing me to correct that - I do like to give credit where it's due.
I have learned more about shellac records and phonographs this last year than I ever thought was possible. If you're ever looking for some information I would have happy to help out.
OMG, that's so awesome! Thank you so much for the help! I have more, and when I share them, I'll be sure to tag you!
Honestly, it started simply; I found an old phonograph that I liked and thought would look good in the house. Once I had it I needed some records for it. While researching the records I found other phonographs and, since I now had records that were incompatible, I picked up a new phonograph. At that point it began to grow out of control, to the tune of multiple phonographs and, literally, thousands of records. I have not played them all, yet, but I have grown to adore them even more than when I started.
Thank you again! You've just made my day. Thanks @tengolotodo for helping out!
You are welcome. I enjoyed it, the nerd in me got really excited. 😉
Another happy little trip back to the 1920s as I do my work, these are great background music when working, with no lyrics to distract me as I work.