Big Rock Candy Mountain - Burl Ives - Original 78rpm Gramophone Brunswick

I have a confession, as a child, because my mom and dad smoked I changed the words to chocolate trees, instead of cigarette trees. I have always enjoyed this wonderful song ever since being a child and listening it come up on the Saturday morning request show. Now it has had a special endearment to my soul so I was actually over the moon when this came in and was given to me a superb track and wonderful song. By the late Burl Ives.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Big
• Rock
• Candy
• Mountain
• Burl
• Ives
• 78rpm
• Vintage
• Gramophone
• Brunswick

[theavenger775]

great to come across a copy of this. mine ended up melted into a plantpot over the spout of a kettle by s/one who didn't share my appreciation of 78 records. But how dis you get the sound of chips frying off the copy?

[RomanceAndReflection]

@theavenger775 I am slowly but surely making progress on this horrendously difficult task, I have to use three programs to clear the frying noise from these records - without losing any of the atmosphere (depth) of the recording

Took me two years to learn the frequencies, and another hour each time to complete.

However, the single most important factor to a good recovery in my view is to clean the record very carefully, before recording, but do not use water on the older cardboard types.

[Rettihsllub]

Thanks for posting this! It was one of my favorite songs when I was 7 or 8! BTW you have a great collection of stills; however, the one, which I think may be from "Miracle on 34th Street" does not have Burl Ives in it. Kris Kringle was played by Edmund Gwynn. Burl would have been a good choice for the role, though! :)

[theripper9]

i loved this guy songwriter storytellerr all wrapped up in one i thought he was a genious and im 46 and a metal head lol

[Sleepingsun4]

Loved your description.. :) X The song is really lovely!