"In My Merry Oldsmobile" by Jean Goldkette

[CycolacFan]

Sound quality on this is incredible, I've got vinyl 40 years newer that doesn't sound half as clear.

[lukegeisz]

I hope you don't mind me using this audio in my history of cars presentation!

[1fornone]

I have a Victor Orthophonic "Granada" model just like yours. I'd love to get o copy of this record to play on it.

[1276epr]

what's on the flip side?

[Atticus70]

The same song but Waltz. Not jazz relevant.

[mojoman4147]

Where on earth did you get this record from? Isn't it incredibly rare to obtain?

[Musicman543210]

im going nuts looking for a victrola like that.

and my uncle great uncle has been driving the same heap oldsmobile cutlass for 25 years and he'll proudly tell you its got 300,000 miles on it

[altoalto1]

I use a Shure stylus 000035 for Victor's from the late 20-ies with a needlepressure of 1,5 gram.

[altoalto1]

As a recordcollector i'm looking for this 78 rpm record for a few years now. Is it safe to use this kind of antique equipment?

[mlaprarie]

You generally have to buy rare items like this from professional record dealers. Occasionally they show up in auctions or on Ebay, however.

Yes, using a Victrola is a perfectly safe way to play an Orthophonic Victor record, as long as the turntable is in perfect working condition, the soundbox has been restored, and you use a new steel needle every time you play a record.

[Arkady63]

I once saw a brilliant animated / live action short that corresponded to this song. It was in black and white and I don't know if it was a Disney or whatever. If anyone knows the film I'm describing, let me know.

[iluvbuickgnx]

If it had in it somebody's dentures getting stuck to the girl's arm, you probably saw the fleischer brothers version from the 1930's. It's on Youtube. Full name is In My Merry Oldsmobile (1932)

[OldsVistaCruiser]

It's called "In My Merry Oldsmobile", and it was done in 1932 by Max Fleischer Studios, the same cartoonists that did the early Popeye shorts.

[Arkady63]

Yes, that's the one.

Thanks very much!

Btw, judging by the name you use on this website, I'd think you were an Olds enthusiast? Well, the oldest car I've ever seen was when I was about 13 and it was in the parking lot, on display, at a gas station in Babylon, Long Island. It was a chain driven 1902 Oldsmobile. An open carriage and steered with a rod, not a steering wheel.

She was beautiful.

[OldsVistaCruiser]

I was at the Oldsmobile Homecoming car show in Lansing, MI on Father's Day weekend 2007 and they had about a half-dozen of those Curved-Dash Oldsmobiles, produced from 1901-07. The oldest one at the show was a 1903.

At the end of the show, they then rode around the show grounds in motorcade - UNDER THEIR OWN POWER! Impressive for cars over a century old.

I also saw an 1897 Olds at the R. E. Olds Transportation Museum in Lansing, as well as the last Olds ever built, a 2004 Alero.

[Rockdrummer365]

Awesome!! This is one of the songs played in Walt Disney World Park on Main Street U.S.A.

[tubellarbells]

Fabulous posting but,most of all Mlaprarie, thanks so much for the very complete technical account. You just took my questions out of my mind. I'm a new YT user and hope to start uploading videos of my record players some day soon. Do you know audio editor software Adobe Audition? Quite good!. Drive On !

[Kirke182]

I believe Goldkette and Beiderbecke were living in Detroit at that time. Bix and Frankie Trumbauer only lived here a short while--about a year--when they was part of Paul Whiteman's band, I think, but Goldkette pretty much settled here. I have this one on CD. That sounds great, though!

[mikeforte]

Thats amazing, thanks for posting this.

[dougbuxton]

Thank for this video, My dad retired from Oldsmobile and is the proud owner of a 1967 Tornado, He talks about this song all the time and I was having trouble finding it, Thanks again

[OldsVistaCruiser]

My uncle is also an Oldsmobile retiree, and my cousin worked at Lansing Assembly.

Too bad General Motors decided to kill off the oldest American marque still in existence!

Bill near Philly

proud owner of a rusty 1969 Vista Cruiser

[BrizyComics]

Thanks so much for posting this! I have been in search of the original version of this song for ages. So nice to hear itat last--and on an authentic Victrola, to boot. Such fun.

[OldsVistaCruiser]

BrizyComics:

This, however, isn't the original version! It was predated by nearly 20 years by Billy Murray.

The song itself was written in 1905, and is probably the earliest "road music" ever written.

Murray's version sounded very scratchy, and although he was a popular singer of the first decade of the 20th century, he seems to not have the singing talent of later singers.

[Grouchy2day]

You can find both takes re-issued restored in beautiful sound by the late John R.T. Davies on a CD entitled "Bix Beiderbecke With Jean Goldkette's Orchestra 1924-1927". Issued on Retrieval Records RTR79040 (catalog #). The version heard here is the issued master take.