78 RPM - Reviews by Bamboo

78 RPM - Reviews by Bamboo

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Bamboo 5th Aug 2020		78 RPM Albert Whelan - Over The Garden Wall / She Can't Make Up Her Mind (1930)	Review Side 'A' is really a comical novelty record. If you like cats, then this one is for you. Albert Whelan does a very passable and amusing impression of two screeching cats talking to each other - "Are you coming out tonight ?" .... "No, I'm not" ...."Why not ?" ......... "I can't get over the wall" . Lots of innuendo otherwise (referring to human liaisons over walls) and a jolly good, merry tune too ! Xylophones. Trumpets for the naughty bits - or is that just my over-active imagination ? Anyway, if you like cats.................................. Oh, the 'B' side....... In my personal opinion, two parts of this song sound similar to a different and still well known song written several years later. Now there's a thing to think about.................. can you recognise it ? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aUR1ANsvrA 4 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
Bamboo 1st Jun 2020		78 RPM [no artist listed] - Ffrr Characteristic / Ffrr Characteristic (1948)	Review I seriously wonder if this record could actually damage your hearing. Even using a 1930's gramophone with Bamboo needles. What does this sound like? Well, If you can imagine an episode of 'The Man From Uncle' where a person is tortured in an enclosed room using piercing, high pitched sound waves, then you are halfway there. If you can also imagine the sound of a ww2 aerial bomb being dropped onto your house from an inordinate height, picking up speed all of the time, creating an ever increasing shrill, constant 'whistling sound' as it nears - then you have it. I would say more, but I seem to be developing a bad headache and feeling dis-orientated. Side 'B' remains unplayed. 9 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
Bamboo 1st May 2020		78 RPM [no artist listed] - Wind And Hurricane / Thunder Storm (1929)	Review In essence, the 'Wind And Hurricane' 'A' side sounds like some kind of hand cranked machine which needed the strength of at least three people to get it going (when sadly only one person was actually available) and the 'Thunder Storm' 'B' side sounds like someone rummaging around in a skip. How-ever, that is the absolute charm of this record. It reminds me of an old village hall, with a Union Flag on the wall on amateur dramatics night. Probably sometime in November. 1929. Oh the nostalgia of it all. More tea and biscuits ? 3 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
Bamboo 1st Dec 2019		78 RPM Street Barrel Organ - Funiculi, Funicula / Tesoro Mio (1931)	Review This record reminds me of the television series 'Westworld'. It is said that if you go to West World, then you can choose whatever you want - I would want these songs playing, sounding exactly as they do on this record, when I first walk into the saloon. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
Bamboo 6th Oct 2019		78 RPM Minna Reverelli - Old Vienna Yodelling Dance / The Cuckoo In The Wood	Review So, there I was this morning, ferreting around with some of my Parlophone records to decide which to keep and which to not keep. I listened to 'The Cuckoo In The Wood' and was entranced. It immediately cut through the silence and quickly established it's haunting effect. Very much so on my modest floor-standing Geisha gramophone. There is a lovely occasional deep echo. I wonder how they achieved that effect ? I have never heard anything like it before. But then again, the only other Yodelling record I believe I have is by 'The Yodelling Cowboy' and, some-what bizarrely, there is no actual yodelling on that one. Anyway, I digress ... ... and so, it is a 'keeper' and very worthy of a place in my humble collection. 5 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
Bamboo 3rd Oct 2019		78 RPM Mr. Harry Lauder - Stop Your Tickling, Jock (1907)	Review A charming record which (to me) sounds like a cross between 'The Laughing Policeman' and a Billy Williams record. (I assume it isn't Billy pretending to be Harry). The volume is surprisingly loud I think, compared to say Zonophones from the same year. 6 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
Bamboo 1st Oct 2019		78 RPM Leslie Hutchinson - Red Sails In The Sunset / Murder In The Moonlight (1935)	Review I have just played 'Murder In The Moonlight'. It is one of those magical songs which immediately transfixes and transports you back in time and to a different place. Where ? I will have to listen a few more times to be sure. Leslie Hutchinson has such a unique voice. I knew nothing about him and enjoyed reading his Wiki entry. I think that this track is essential for any collection so I am extremely pleased to have it. 6 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?