Thank you @19king14 Film2Video Memories & Services for posting this video. 0:13 -0:32 The L tracks at Wabash near Jackson. Love the neon signage for Seymour Record Mart the Greatest Jazz Collection in the country 0:38 - 0:46 State street near Jackson - the 2 white buildings (Consumers Building) at 202 and 220 S. State street have been marked for demolition by the federal gov't 0:48 The Executive House on Wacker (now Wyndham) 1:10 The old Sun-Times building (now trump tower) 1:16 The Wrigley building, Trib Tower and Chicago river
@merrybe3418 Жыл бұрын
:21 visual of sig for Seymour's Record Mart, Greatest Jazz Collection in the country. I wondered if this was the predecessor to Jazz Record Mart, which I frequented in 1969 at age 15. Sure enough, I found this on the Web: "Seymour Records was the brainchild of Seymour Schwartz (1917-2008). Born in Chicago and orphaned at the age of 10, Schwartz was taught the cornet by the band instructor at the orphanage. He began in business as a reseller of used 78s from jukeboxes. In 1947, after accumulating a huge stock of used jazz 78s, he opened Seymour's Record Mart at 439 South Wabash in Chicago. For over a decade, the Mart was the number 1 specialty store for jazz records in Chicago. After running both traditional and modern jam sessions in the store's loft for 2 years, Schwartz decided to record some of the artists he had featured; another objective, as with many a small label, was to put some of the songs he had written on record. Seymour Records was launched in August 1950. The company recorded just five known sessions. Seymour 78s were pressed in editions of 1000 copies and sold out of the store. Lacking wider distribution, Seymour sought a pact with a bigger label, and on December 2, 1950, Billboard announced that the Lurlean Hunter sides had been sold to Discovery Records in Los Angeles, which promptly issued two of them (both tunes were his compositions). There was one final release on the label in the summer of 1951, when a strong Chicago White Sox team with a new slogan prompted Schwartz to record and release "Go-Go-Sox." The Chicago White Sox fight song was also cut in the loft, with musical accompaniment by Seymour himself on cornet, Buddy Charles (1927-2008) on piano, and an unidentified individual beating on a wastebasket with a broom handle. In all, the Seymour label managed to get out 5 records. In 1959, Schwartz sold his record store and its remaining stock to Bob Koester, who moved it to another location and renamed it the Jazz Record Mart. Seymour Schwartz died in New York City on October 3, 2008. Source: The Red Saunders Research Foundation"
@WAL_DC-6B3 жыл бұрын
Nice opening shot of two Chicago North Shore & Milwaukee Railroad, electric interurban cars making their way around the downtown "L" tracks in the Loop. Thanks for sharing!
@gRosh082 жыл бұрын
Wow.
@waynewright28863 жыл бұрын
Year Before i was Born in Chi Town.
@juliemanarin41272 жыл бұрын
The year I was born in Chicago!!
@bigjohn088652 жыл бұрын
nice
@robertmasina73885 ай бұрын
The prior year the White Sox were in the World Series, even though they lost.
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Thank you @19king14 Film2Video Memories & Services for posting this video. 0:13 -0:32 The L tracks at Wabash near Jackson. Love the neon signage for Seymour Record Mart the Greatest Jazz Collection in the country 0:38 - 0:46 State street near Jackson - the 2 white buildings (Consumers Building) at 202 and 220 S. State street have been marked for demolition by the federal gov't 0:48 The Executive House on Wacker (now Wyndham) 1:10 The old Sun-Times building (now trump tower) 1:16 The Wrigley building, Trib Tower and Chicago river
:21 visual of sig for Seymour's Record Mart, Greatest Jazz Collection in the country. I wondered if this was the predecessor to Jazz Record Mart, which I frequented in 1969 at age 15. Sure enough, I found this on the Web: "Seymour Records was the brainchild of Seymour Schwartz (1917-2008). Born in Chicago and orphaned at the age of 10, Schwartz was taught the cornet by the band instructor at the orphanage. He began in business as a reseller of used 78s from jukeboxes. In 1947, after accumulating a huge stock of used jazz 78s, he opened Seymour's Record Mart at 439 South Wabash in Chicago. For over a decade, the Mart was the number 1 specialty store for jazz records in Chicago. After running both traditional and modern jam sessions in the store's loft for 2 years, Schwartz decided to record some of the artists he had featured; another objective, as with many a small label, was to put some of the songs he had written on record. Seymour Records was launched in August 1950. The company recorded just five known sessions. Seymour 78s were pressed in editions of 1000 copies and sold out of the store. Lacking wider distribution, Seymour sought a pact with a bigger label, and on December 2, 1950, Billboard announced that the Lurlean Hunter sides had been sold to Discovery Records in Los Angeles, which promptly issued two of them (both tunes were his compositions). There was one final release on the label in the summer of 1951, when a strong Chicago White Sox team with a new slogan prompted Schwartz to record and release "Go-Go-Sox." The Chicago White Sox fight song was also cut in the loft, with musical accompaniment by Seymour himself on cornet, Buddy Charles (1927-2008) on piano, and an unidentified individual beating on a wastebasket with a broom handle. In all, the Seymour label managed to get out 5 records. In 1959, Schwartz sold his record store and its remaining stock to Bob Koester, who moved it to another location and renamed it the Jazz Record Mart. Seymour Schwartz died in New York City on October 3, 2008. Source: The Red Saunders Research Foundation"
Nice opening shot of two Chicago North Shore & Milwaukee Railroad, electric interurban cars making their way around the downtown "L" tracks in the Loop. Thanks for sharing!
Wow.
Year Before i was Born in Chi Town.
The year I was born in Chicago!!
nice
The prior year the White Sox were in the World Series, even though they lost.
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I was 8.