Sweet Lorraine - Victrola Music Video

This is a video of Sinatra singing Sweet Lorraine (Nat King Cole on piano) on 78, played on my Victrola Talking Machine.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Victrola
• Talking
• Machine
• Nat
• King
• Cole
• Sweet
• Lorraine

[danieldnolan]

You could be right about the speed. I'm neither a technician nor a musician. I just counted the revolutions with a stopwatch when adjusting it.

[danieldnolan]

I commented that I realized after posting this video two comments ago, but I guess people don't read that far back. I'll try to change the description.

[thornesmith2]

That's a great 78 but it's not Nat Cole. Sounds to me like Jack Teagarden with Eddie Condon's band, but I could be wrong!

[danieldnolan]

You're right. When I researched it after posting this, the best information I could find suggested that Nat Cole was playing the piano, but it was actually a young Frank Sinatra singing. I don't know Jack Teagarden or Eddie Condon.

[laceup1967]

Very nice machine. However, please realize that you are killing that electrically-produced record on an acoustic machine.

[danieldnolan]

please explain.

[getmeoutofiraq05]

my Victrola sounds like loud squeaks on cretin notes it seems..any suggestions. should the post that goes to the center of the diaphragm be sodered to the needle holding assembly?

[Turkeydoodlers]

I'm restoring a 4-7 myself

It was a upgrade from the 4-3

Very good orthophonic machine

[wunderfool1973]

This is awesome :) I love finding random stuff like this at night, when I can't sleep. Stuff like this is what makes Youtube so great. Thanks for posting this :)

[Bocc5495]

my victrola is 1906 but has a yellowish color to it with some red

[bigstriderman]

Speed is wrong. This tune is played in F usually, perhaps E flat, but not E like it sounds here.

[edisonphonographs]

You are completely right! In the 1930s records began to be recorded on softer discs. Pumice used to be in the grooves of records so that the needle will wear instead of the record. I have seen people play vinyl on these machines! Vinly is not only way to soft but they also do not have pumice in the grooves, so the needle will cut the record grooves out.

[petecellar]

I always close the lid when I play records on my Vic.

[fuzzbear6240]

That's a late VV 4-7. The 4-7 was offered from 1926-28. this one probably dates to the end of the production run in 1927 if the bronze finish taper-tube is original to the machine.

Regards, J.

[elfdog100]

Your Victrola Talking Machine is most likely made between 1922 and 1929 which is when the turntables were yellow felt. Green felt were between 1900 and 1921.