PERRY COMO - IVY ROSE - ZENITH COBRA-MATIC.MP4

It's quite a jump in time from 1925 to 1959 or 1960, but next April we're having a 50th high school reunion. The people who are planning it told us to bring to the casual Friday night get-together any old records we might still have from the time and there would be a DJ with vintage equipment to play them on, which I think is a wonderful idea. I still have a little 45 RPM record case that I would place these records in after anointing them with the return address sticker that shows my address of 50 years ago. I already had about 25-30 20's records at that time, but every so often a record would come out that appealed to me--it had to have a pretty melody and not be rock 'n roll and this one fits the bill. I'm surprised it hasn't already been uploaded because I thought it was very popular at the time. It's sentiments are very much in tune with those of the 20's about love in the context of college and memories of the old ivy covered buildings and talking about a dreamhouse for two. The machine is a Zenith Cobra-Matic High-Fidelity from about 1957 or 1958--it uses a generic VM (Voice of Music) changer, as did many other makes at the time, but Zenith chose to embellish it with the pretty chrome ring around the turntable. Of course it still uses the Cobra tone-arm, but it is made of metal by this time.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• PERRY
• COMO
• IVY
• ROSE
• ZENITH
• COBRA-MATIC

[shadowgirl32]

my grandma had me find this - she hadn't heard it in something like sixty years.

[VictrolaJazz]

@shadowgirl32 Well it's not quite that old, but glad she enjoyed it anyway!

[ketefollen1984]

Zenith is priceless. Too high cost for me

[VictrolaJazz]

@ketefollen1984 Thanks! It really didn't cost that much, but that was several years ago too!

[johnbrowneyes]

I have the same model as you.....I have posted a few videos. It's a great machine, I just need to find some new tubes.

[VictrolaJazz]

@johnbrowneyes Yes, they are superb machines, about the best portables of the late 50's! Thanks and best of luck finding the tubes, shouldn't be too difficult.

[shadowgirl32]

@VictrolaJazz lol, I'm only off by six years. =P

[ketefollen1984]

@ketefollen1984 The ritual of the vinyl and the sound of the tune. Unique.

[75capriceconvertible]

@VictrolaJazz It is beautiful and one can tell by looking that it's quality... I remember the era when, the rage for 'high fidelity' was eclipsed by the rage for 'stereophonic'!! and everything became stereo, and, the quality began to deteriorate... true, the players were stereo but they became stereo crap!

[75capriceconvertible]

@VictrolaJazz No kidding!! They brought their own records? Oh my, I would have been in juke heaven! And I would have been transfixed at the sight of that first cobra too... the arms of that day were so cumbersome!