The Legends of the Rocking Dutchman - episode 61
78s Only
Today I pressed the 78 button of my turntable and have a pile of shellac at hand - all of my playlist, and even all of my background music, today comes from 78s. That means that the cracks in the grooves are on the house today.
Clean records have a very own sound that is defined by the limitations of recording technology in the thirties to fifties, and the characteristics of the material. When they get worn a noisy hiss and random pops caused by dirt in the grooves take over. And that is the nostalgic sound that you'll get today. Of course with great music, from late thirties blues to a mid-fifties vocal group, including a few of the most rare and obscure records to be found.
Playlist
- Big Mama Thornton - Nightmare
- Kitty Stevenson - Blues By Myself
- Johnny Ace - No Money
- Doles Dickens - Don't Move A Vip Till I Say Vop
- Odelle Turner - Alarm Clock Boogie
- Sheiks - Baby Don't You Cry
- Joe Liggins - Worried
- Todd Rhodes - Sportree's Jump
- Calvin Boze - Baby, You're Tops With Me
- Lightnin' Hopkins - Moonrise Blues
- Smokey Hogg - Possum Hunt
- Trixie Smith - He May Be Your Man
- Georgia White - Alley Boogie
- Bill Samuels & the Cats'n Jammer Three - Candy Store Jump
- Lennie Lewis feat. Harold Tinsley - Mean Bad and Evil Blues
- Tommy Dorsey - The Huckle-Buck
- Sax Mallard - The Mojo
Outtro:
- Wild Bill Moore Sextette - Bongo Bounce
- Kirk Kirkland - The Saxaphone Rag
- Gene Ammons - Odd-En-Dow
- Jim Wynn - J.W. Bop
- Joe Lutcher - Stratocruiser
- Sonny Thompson - Sonny's Return
- Tiny Grimes - Jealousy