Gonna Buy Myself a Mule
written by Wyatt Griffin
performed by The Five Scamps
recorded 22 March 1951
issued in May 1951 as Columbia 30242

From Kansas City, The Scamps here were Wyatt Griffin (lead vocals and guitar), Arthur Jackson (vocals, tenor sax, alto sax, baritone sax, and clarinet), Louis Wright (piano), Earl Garnett (vocals and cocktail drums), and Edwin Fountaine (vocals and bassist).

This was the last of six for Columbia. This is a clean flexi-vinyl pressing.

Technical Note: All records are played on an Audio-Technica AT-PL120 with a Shure M78S cart and a 3.0 mm diamond stylus, for 78s, at 3.0 grams or an Audio-Technica ATP-2XN cart with a 0.7 mm diamond stylus, for 45s and LPs, at 1.5 grams. The recordings are played through a Radio Shack mixer to the PC's line in with no equalization or noise reduction. What you hear is what is on the disc, for better or worst. This set up seems to work and sound the best, to my ears.

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How Could You?
written by Joel Turnero
performed by The Mello-Moods with the Schubert Swanston Trio
issued in December 1951 as Robin 105

Ray "Buddy" Wooten leads, with some help from Bobby Williams, on their very first record. The other mebers were James Bethea, Bobby Baylor, and Monte Owens. Williams, Bethea, and Owens would later team up with Herman Curtis, Buzzy Willis, and Pat Gaston to form The Solitaires.

According to Joel Whitburn, Robin 105 has the highest cash value ($2000) of any record ever making the R&B Top-10 (#7).

Technical Note: All records are played on an Audio-Technica AT-PL120 with a Shure M78S cart and a 3.0 mm diamond stylus, for 78s, at 3.0 grams or an Audio-Technica ATP-2XN cart with a 0.7 mm diamond stylus, for 45s and LPs, at 1.5 grams. The recordings are played through a Radio Shack mixer to the PC's line in with no equalization or noise reduction. What you hear is what is on the disc, for better or worst. This set up seems to work and sound the best, to my ears.

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Honey Dear (If I Were You)
written by Floyd Hunt
performed by The Four Clefs
issued circa February 1941 as Bluebird B- 8670-B

Let us see. . . "Hammond Electric Organ, Bass, Guitar, Vibraphone and Drums with singing". Five instruments and only four clefs, what's with that? I digress. . .

From Chicago, the group here on this recording could be guitarist Johnny Green, organist James Marshall, and brothers Melvin (bass) and Willie Chapman (drums, vibes, and lead vocals). They had about twenty releases on Bluebird and a few more after that on the main RCA Victor label.

Technical Note: All records are played on an Audio-Technica AT-PL120 with a Shure M78S cart and a 3.0 mm diamond stylus, for 78s, at 3.0 grams or an Audio-Technica ATP-2XN cart with a 0.7 mm diamond stylus, for 45s and LPs, at 1.5 grams. The recordings are played through a Radio Shack mixer to the PC's line in with no equalization or noise reduction. What you hear is what is on the disc, for better or worst. This set up seems to work and sound the best, to my ears.

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NewsChannel 32's Abby Miller shows us what's cool at duPont Manual High School in Louisville, Kentucky.

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Rocketboom Spotlight on The Archive, a film by Sean Dunne. Paul Mawhinney was born and raised in Pittsburgh, PA. Over the years he has amassed what has become the world's largest record collection. Due to health issues and a struggling record industry Paul is being forced to sell his collection. This is the story of a man and his records.

View the entire documentary at http://www.vimeo.com/1546186
http://veryapeproductions.com
http://www.thegreatestmusiccol lection.com/
http://www.rocketboom.com/cate gory/spotlight/

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Brian Donegan visits central Indiana farm and ponders the question on everyone's mind...Are you tired of PORK barrel spending?

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Rare tune with a nice Buddy Holly sound

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This is just a classic!

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Enjoy!

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Amazing device that gives voice to musical instruments. The Sonovox consists of one or two louspeakers placed on the throat that play the source sound. The performer whispers the words while the speakers stand in for the voice box. Used for the talking train in Disney's Dumbo, uncountable radio promos, a tube-in-the-mouth version "Talk Box" was used by Frampton to make his guitar sing, and all-electronic "Vocoder" versions are still used in current pop music.

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From 1932...

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From 1933...

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Watch Lionel Hampton and his band perform Flying Home Broadcast on American Television in 1957.

Use this link to open my Jazz Giants library playlist. http://www.youtube.com/cp/vjVQ a1PpcFNgJPmAJf6QfSRPBzZb7Pq9-6 EUdGs6FKg=

The name of the show is in the intro to the video and stars Patti Page.

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The Treniers appear in a 1953 archival clip from Night Music.

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America's #1 peapicker sings She's My Baby in this rare Snader Telescription - featuring Speedy West (steel guitar) and Jimmy Bryant (telecaster).

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