Fantastic music and film footage!

Excellent transfer and restoration

My great uncle's band. Very nice!

@namealreadytakennamealread493

4 жыл бұрын

Awesome, did he tell you any storys about the band

A lovely melody from 1924 with a minor toned verse featuring an oboe, which introduces the feeling of the one facing those golden gates. These early instrumentals are so rich in musical content! The Bobby Davis sax solo and the tradeoff between Rollini and the brass was great! The charleston breaks are always welcomed to dancers and listeners as well! Bobby Davis is playing his hawaian guitar imitation effect (with his soprano sax!) behind the oboe adding subtile tonal colors to the music. All those early banner Columbias of both Ramblers and Fletcher Henderson and others as well, are great music. Sorry if my eyes are blinded to your wonderful photos but my ears are keen to the music. Thanks!

@240252

6 жыл бұрын

Hello Luis, your so a professional and accurate description helps us understand and plunge deeper into that fantastic music, thank you! I second your opinion about the exquisite richness of the instrumental content of those early 1920s acousticals. I am also absolute fan of them and I try to upload them in here as often as possible. I think the reason why it was so, is the great artists like Fletcher Henderson, Adrian Rollini, Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw, Joe Venuti and dozens, dozens of others who played in those bands were in the same time forced to obey - besides exposing their enormous talents - also to the commercial aspects of the recording. Such as - those records were supposed to be first of all, well sold and second: be good for the dancing parties. That pressure of artistry, which was squeezed into merciless commercial context created such explosive potentiality of arrangements which made jewels of those musical miniatures and which is felt today in every note of that music. During the Swing era that pressure weakened, because of the change of social habits: first of all, decline of social dances fever, as it was in the 1920s, when people danced literally everywhere, even on roofs of the taxi cabs and in the swimming pools.

@luismantaras6460

6 жыл бұрын

240252 - Thank you, Gregorz (?). Your considerations are interesting but I don't deserve your kind compliments!

@davidalen2590

Жыл бұрын

Excellent commentary. Thank you for sharing!

@davidalen2590

Жыл бұрын

@@240252 Excellent commentary.

Great...

"The perfect Back contest"! Interesting, but I think this would be impossible today!

I loved this. The early acoustical Columbias are all gems and this one is no exception. The orchestra's sound is well recognisable, doing the excellent solo work all justice it deserves.

Most engaging tune. You are so clever with finding and using intersting pictures of this era. Thank you for sharing.

@240252

6 жыл бұрын

Thanks Natalia, it is a remarkable music which the California Ramblers played, indeed. I suggest you read here a very interesting note by Luis, his description shows how artful is the arrangement, what subtle game between instruments is being carried on in the background etc. He is a specialist, indeed, I'm not even a pale shadow of his musical knowledge :-(( .

@nataliademiantseva1407

6 жыл бұрын

Yes, indeed. He analised this fine tune perfectly.

I used to live less than a mile from Turnbull Canyon Road. Today, it's paved, but otherwise, it hasn't changed much. I also once lived in Eagle Rock.

@240252

6 жыл бұрын

So, this clip gives you a chance for a "sentimental journey". It always moves me whenever I see that these films are watched simultaneously by people from such different and faraway corners of the world. Greetings to Turnbull Canyon!

GOOD OLD DAYS

@240252

6 жыл бұрын

:-)

WOW WOW WOW !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111 From a mad keen 74yo Aussie fan.

Purtroppo piove oggi ahahah....speriamo torni presto il sole.Bellissimo come sempre.Buon fine settimana.Lidia

@240252

6 жыл бұрын

Sta piovendo in Friuli? Non preoccuparti. Abbiamo un detto in Polonia: la pioggia di maggio è come la danza di una donna anziana. Sicuramente il sole si accenderà presto. Saluti

@LidiaSovrano

6 жыл бұрын

ahahah....infatti!Oggi sole e caldissimo!Buona settimana.Ciao