Voco Roll 5428 "Anticipatin' Blues" Played by George Morton

Voco Roll 5428 "Anticipatin' Blues" played by George Morton on my 1912 Stroud Metrostyle-Themodist player piano. Thankfully it's not inflicted with the heavy marimba that many rolls produced by the Standard Music Roll company have. It's interesting to hear a few earlier blues riffs and even a smidge of double time. This roll was found in Ontario Canada. I've used a better digital camera with this video and it makes the lyrics much clearer than my previous videos. Sorry about the focus issues for the first bit, I'm still learning some settings.

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[KawhackitaRag]

Terrific funky blues playing!

I wonder if this guy knew Everett Robbins?

[AAErikCO]

Thanks glad you liked it. If he did know him that would be cool. I have a feeling lots of these guys went around and met other folks, for instance Eubie Blake, J.L. Cook, they all met a bunch of great players.

What I'm interested to find out about is if anyone who knew Jimmy Blythe was interviewed, for example, Will "Buddy" Burton, who died in 1976.

[KawhackitaRag]

@Bumblebee38 I will just take a wild guess because it is 3:45 AM here and I'm about to go to bed - "George Morton" sounds like he could be Perry Bradford (or one of Bradford's friends) to me, although I really have no idea.

Perry Bradford is known to have made at least one roll (probably more than one, I don't know for sure) for the Connorized company. If fellow Connorized artist Spencer Williams' rolls are similar, Bradford's roll probably contains a couple of extra "hands".

[KawhackitaRag]

@Bumblebee38 Some of the names on rolls produced by the Standard company in New Jersey were pseudonyms (for example: Bert Wynn and Fred Murtha - both of whom were George Gershwin).

Others were real people, many of whom are extremely obscure today and were not well known even in their own day, as opposed to big companies such as Aeolian and QRS who hired almost exclusively "name" artists to make most of their rolls.

George Morton may have been real, or he may have been another person.

[KawhackitaRag]

@AAErikCO I would love to be able to hear the interview Burton did in 1959 which is apparently at Tulane University Jazz Archives. I would love to have heard him speak and what he had to say. I do not know how to get ahold of a copy (not a transcription into text, but an audio dub) of this interview, but it might involve me having to get a degree first- GROAN! (I'm working on it).

[KawhackitaRag]

@Turkeydoodlers try the Pierce Piano Atlas.

Sounds like you have a very nice piano. Congratulations!

[Bumblebee38]

Who was George Morton ?

[Turkeydoodlers]

Hi I just received this same piano today maybe you can help me out

I'm trying to find the age of mine

The serial number is 10587

Any idea?

The one I have says stroud pianola themedist metrostyle

Everything plays good

New hammers and dampers a few years ago

So any help or info on ghe manf date let me know

Mike

[Musicmany2k]

AWESOME !!!!!!

[Bumblebee38]

Yes indeed Burton was interviewed but his memory was rather confused