Garrard RC80 - Glenn Miller & His Orchestra feat. Marion Hutton - Ding-Dong! the Witch Is Dead

[flammasherman]

Great record and fantastically neat base.I have a Garrard 4HF for which I would like to make a similar one.Is it wood or metal ?, I am intrigued by the tight radius bends where there is a minimum of space thickness because of the workings within.Cheers,Roger.

[gregoryagogo]

I guess I totally forgot visiting 10 months ago! 

[gregoryagogo]

Great sound, great machine!

[gregoryagogo]

Super-Neeto!

[redcat23]

I just stumbled across this song while look for songs to complete my Halloween mix. This is a great version of the song. Also, this dude disappeared en route to entertain WWII soldiers. Crazy.

[beninski707]

Absolutely beautiful player.  Thats for posting!!

[RCAradio]

Hi

I would like to know this have stereo? how the tone arm, it light weight? thank

[leatherneck7786]

i really like this. thanks for posting it

[lukasvoboda]

Nice sound, i would like to record my rockabilly Lp´s, can you share with as what equipment you have? You have very good sound quality.

[Whitewolfee]

Excellent!

[rockinstlouis]

plus it takes a while for the motor to spin at the right speed.. otherwise it sounds like the music is playing at a lower key.. maybe something needs to be lubricated..

[rockinstlouis]

I wish I knew why my Garrard type A gets stuck in a loop at the end of a record.. tried many records.. same thing.. I have it set to 1.5 - 2 grams.. maybe that's not enough for that model.. I used to have another type A that did the same thing.. but it was a lot worse..

[49kasey]

@rockinstlouis All the old Garrard changers do that after a while. When the tonearm gets to a point near the end of a record it starts to trigger a cam that's loaded with grease that hardens up over time. You can take it to a repair shop and they'll clean that gunk out and replace it with stuff that hopefully won't do that. If they want more than $50 go somewhere else, you should be able to call for an estimate, it's pretty standard for an old Garrard.

[rockinstlouis]

I have found that a quality 32 band equalizer is the way to go.. I have a DBX 1231. If you can find a cartridge that tops off at around at 22 kHZ you're doing good. You can get those at musician shops. You can really tweak the lows and highs.. (that's what I did) I have a Shure M35x cartridge for 33 rpm records and that's crystal clear. Bass is great too. I've yet to find a quality cartridge for 78 rpms. Shure makes one just for 78's. I'll probably try it sometime.

[n7ksi]

I agree. That's kind of what's going on with the old Fisher preamp. It has a 78 position which is bypassing the RIAA circuit that a modern preamp would have. The equalizer would do the same thing by compensating for the RIAA equalizer.

[acfinney]

NEVERMIND... I read how you did it, when I viewed Mr. Goodman. I have a Fisher 400, hooked to a Garrard Type A. I even use a GE VR 2, but it doesn't have the clarity.

[n7ksi]

It's an old Pickering cartridge. I haven't been able to find any information on it. I found info on one from the mid 50's and just used that for the tracking pressure. I really don't know why it sounds so good. I have a Type A too in a Fisher President console with a Pickering 380 cartridge and it doesn't sound as good. I'm not complaining though. This is just going to be my 78 turntable from now on.

Thanks

Mike

[acfinney]

Are you using a GE cartridge? My Magnavox Imperial doesn't play 78's as clear as this. Tell me how you are getting that clarity. Maybe you have a compensator?

[parlophonman]

Great Recordplayer !

[radiorambloke]

The old garrards , they look great when there done up. I am a collector of old valve radios and gramophones, and I especially love doing up radiograms , In particular the turntables . I was just killing a bit of time , so I searched , Turntables just to see what every body else was doing. The idler wheels , I have found by using Metho on the wheeel,tou whell remove the glaze , coupled with replacing the rubber gromets , and just a scuff under the turntable where the wheel grabs Cheers Pete

[tubeie07]

Sounds EXCELLENT! What a quite pressing, must be a near mint copy!?

[tsmithers]

Love the old 78s....also love Wizard of Oz...who knew Glenn Miller recorded the song. P.S. Is Marian Hutton and Betty Hutton sisters?

[n7ksi]

I like 78's too. I've been grabbing them up were every I can find this. This was the B-side of "Over the Rainbow". I picked because of her vocals and it was more up beat. You're right about Betty. Marian was her older sister. The both sang with the Vincent Lopez Orchestra when Glenn Miller asked her to join his Orchestra.