Bradley/McKinley Orch - "Scramble Two" (1940)

From April 1940 here is a great swing number by the Will Bradley-Ray McKinley Orchestra, "Scramble Two." This band could really swing, and it was propelled by one of the best drummers of the era (McKinley) and featured great soloists including trombonist Will Bradley. This band also employed boogie woogie pianist Freddie Slack, and their claim to fame was the hit boogie song "Beat Me Daddy Eight To The Bar." McKinley provides the nonsense vocal at the end of the record.

The record is played on my Sparton radio-phono console unit, built around the 8-57 AM-FM radio chassis with phono preamp input. The unit includes a "slicer" record changer and the tonearm is equipped with an Astatic ceramic phono cartridge that uses a standard size sapphire-tip needle.

For this video, I mic'd the speaker at close proximity, rather than gathering the sound from further back in the room.

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• Will
• Bradley
• Ray
• McKinley
• Big
• Band
• Jazz

[2agray]

Sparton had a tremendous sound. I have the model right before yours. I changed the cartridge out to get rid of the steel needle and it was like night and day! MUCH better fidelity and its the best record player I have for 78's. Great great sound. Virginal amp too! Never been rebuilt.