I've just checked the excellent redhotjazz site (search for "King Oliver's Jazz Band")and there are two takes of this tune. Yours is the first take. The second one is similar but has less ensemble playing, & therefore has more solos. Well worth a listen.
Also, MoleD, if you Google "Snag It", and use the wiki entry, then look at the references... this video put up by YOU is the first reference. Take a bow!!
Mister MoleDFigg! This is an amazing record! Wow! Thrilling! Wonderful playing, wonderful arrangement!!
Thankyou for the recording and also the photographs.
I would have loved to have danced to this in a Chicago club in the 1920s with King Oliver's band playing on the stage, doing a 25 minute version (any longer and I would be out of breath).
i personally wouldn't bother trying to clean it up, just make sure your levels are balanced (treb, middle, bass) and use a good quality, properly set up needle. I hear what your saying steel needles completly eat records but you loose a lot more using a software process such as dynamic eq'ing and compression (which i belive forms the click and hiss reduction in audacity.) The repress I got of this is naff and the record is in good condition which leads me to belive the master was fucked.
Bigard and Natty Domonique were cousins. I think ive heard somewhere that Oliver and Domonique played together.Domonique being second cornet obviously.
Fabulous. Thanks. Funny thing though, have you been running this through some fancy cleanup software? I thought they were still acoustic recordings in 1922. This sounds electrical.
@MoleDFigg Call me crazy, but it seems like the recordings get....I guess I'll call it "muffled" by the "clean-up" software. I really don't mind the surface noise at all; I'd rather have that than lose any of the music.
Gracias por compartirlo.
sirjuandabicho 1 month ago
Holy shit this is old....BUT I LOVE IT!! XD
InserrtUsername 6 months ago
used to have this on 78, almost wore it out!
RadioFreeWisconsin 1 year ago
@ajaxmayo No, Look it up Louis Armstrong's mentor was Joe "King" Oliver.
bxdfm13 1 year ago
@bxdfm13 and bunk johnson
busessuck1 1 year ago
Is it me or there is a few seconds missing at the end?
Saturnome 2 years ago
Yes, I'm afraid that YouTube seem to clip the endings sometimes -don't know why!!
MoleDFigg 2 years ago
Hi again, MoldD.
I've just checked the excellent redhotjazz site (search for "King Oliver's Jazz Band")and there are two takes of this tune. Yours is the first take. The second one is similar but has less ensemble playing, & therefore has more solos. Well worth a listen.
Also, MoleD, if you Google "Snag It", and use the wiki entry, then look at the references... this video put up by YOU is the first reference. Take a bow!!
fillra 2 years ago
Mister MoleDFigg! This is an amazing record! Wow! Thrilling! Wonderful playing, wonderful arrangement!!
Thankyou for the recording and also the photographs.
I would have loved to have danced to this in a Chicago club in the 1920s with King Oliver's band playing on the stage, doing a 25 minute version (any longer and I would be out of breath).
fillra 2 years ago
hi mate
i personally wouldn't bother trying to clean it up, just make sure your levels are balanced (treb, middle, bass) and use a good quality, properly set up needle. I hear what your saying steel needles completly eat records but you loose a lot more using a software process such as dynamic eq'ing and compression (which i belive forms the click and hiss reduction in audacity.) The repress I got of this is naff and the record is in good condition which leads me to belive the master was fucked.
cutterschoicenotmine 2 years ago
MoleDFigg!!!!
us mole's gotsta stick togetha no matter what the weatha
LocoMole 3 years ago
Bigard and Natty Domonique were cousins. I think ive heard somewhere that Oliver and Domonique played together.Domonique being second cornet obviously.
kingoliver45 3 years ago
Fabulous. Thanks. Funny thing though, have you been running this through some fancy cleanup software? I thought they were still acoustic recordings in 1922. This sounds electrical.
alanor76 3 years ago
Yes, it was 'cleaned up' a little (using Audacity software), just to get rid of the surface noise from years of playing using steel needles!
MoleDFigg 3 years ago
Hi MoleDFigg, you did a great job cleaning it up a bit so one can hear some passages much better.
stcyrist 3 years ago
@MoleDFigg Call me crazy, but it seems like the recordings get....I guess I'll call it "muffled" by the "clean-up" software. I really don't mind the surface noise at all; I'd rather have that than lose any of the music.
But mostly, thank you for uploading this for us.
Vermontist 1 year ago
I love Jazz!!
GS336 4 years ago 7
Very Great, to see a Video clipp from the old 78rpm record "Snag it"
Greating's from Germany!
Ihave recorded this song in the 1970s from a German Radio Station by
Music Cassette!
Twostrokefan 4 years ago
Louis learnt his art from King Joe. I always remember having to play this tune at our club in the 50's. Always a favourite!!
Jazzbobill 4 years ago