Beethoven scuffs... 😁

I can’t

Imagine being so underwhelmed with actual life and this is what we've chosen to do with our time.

i don't think that's the issue. it's more about the fact it's just 100 years old...not about his talent.

I think Mr Brown never imagined being on KZfaq.

lol

Indeed! :)

🤝🤝

100% food intake

*was

@@gregdolecki8530 nah still is

@@tim.noonan Oh lawd, hee ded. Sumbudy caw 9-1.

really excellent, incredible talent and beauty

Ain’t that the truth

This was something he played so often it became instinctive. It covered his faults due to being a fat, lazy, fk.

I actually enjoyed the commercial I got afterwards more than this BS. Hope to see the same commercial again!

Yeah, when you play enough of anything it just sorta comes out of a muscle memory.

@@jackschitt7783 What, you can't appreciate somebody's talent?

@@jackschitt7783 What would Mr. Rogers say?

"KZfaq is the closest thing to a time machine we ever going to have"

For sure 👍👍👍👍

What are we but specs of dust on a grain of sand on the sandy shores of time.

Earth only requires 200 million years to recover from humanity, that is also enough time to replenish all oil sources for a more advanced species that will succeed the human.

Interesting replies

i’m the 91st person who liked your comment 🙈

Not 71 as I could guess :(

He was 30 here

Yeah, I remember when 1930 was only 78 years ago, back in 2009 when my dad's parents were in their 70s. Now my dad's parents are in their early 90s. Time sure does fly. *Also, as a side note, technological innovation kinda stagnated in 2015, so when I was younger, I thought technology in the 2020s would be far more advanced than today's, but that's another story. iPhones still use the same lightning connector from 2012, instead of the newer USB-C tech. Lol ...

You think he's still around?

joliet jake style

Shame on you. Do you mock disabled people too?

Everything was so organic back then, even fat people back then were probably healthier than people today.

@@sockpuppetbitme Oh come ON - adjust your sensitivity setting a little. That's reality - anyone his size actually NEEDS that kind of caloric intake. I didn't even say that his physique was a bad thing - YOU'RE the one that compared him to a disabled person. It looks to me like he got around just fine. So shame on YOU.

@Miraak 45?!? Yikes! Ok, thats not good. Your health is your wealth, people. There's really no reason to get that big.

It's probably recommended it to you before but you ignored it, and yet here you finally are making a tediously unfunny algorithm joke in 2021.

I just saw it for the first time too! Glad I did.

Same here 😁😁

@@johnmartinez7440 thank you for saying what was on my mind

I'm with you brother !

My wife says that about my tuchas, after her homemade chili.

Nice contrast to his huge size

so true!

Yes!

“I don’t even like xylophone”. Now that is a weird comment. It’s like someone saying, “I don’t even like asteroids.” They both have such a small rate of occurrence in most people’s live that one would be hard pressed to have the time to form a general opinion of it one way or the other.

@@wellesradio Patrick Moore, Astronomer and Sometime Xylophone Player exists in that strange venn diagram with Brian May , Astronomer and Sometime Guitar Player, and Adrian Rollini , Bass Saxophone and Vibraphone player , linked into Teddy Brown Xylophone and Bass Sax - Moore and Brown being linked by Girth Too it seems. But no. I had never heard of Teddy Brown before

@@wellesradio Just wondering what it is that inclines you to criticize someone's reply here when everyone else is appreciating this marvelous musician and his talent.

@@highpath4776 and all are very good at what they’re doing

@@grahamnichols1416 this!

@@grahamnichols1416 doing it every day, taking it seriously, being lawful good at it. I bet he could be woken up in the middle of the night and play flawlessly. He seems like a hard worker.

Relieved to see that others have already pointed out that it takes a lot of hard work. First, years of study to learn to play an instrument (whether via academic education or learning from someone who's 'self-taught'), then continuing to practice to become better, a never ending process for anyone who takes their art seriously. Often talent is the starting point--an inherited ability that makes it easier to learn & that gets you interested to start with, usually via inborn traits such as manual dexterity, perfect pitch, etc. But this inborn talent must be developed by learning, practice, or it doesn't develop. I've drawn since i could hold a pencil, after having inherited various traits making it more interesting to me & making it a bit easier to learn. My older brother & cousin both had inborn talent & taught me how to achieve various techniques, & both were very gifted, but neither of them continued to draw or paint when they were older because they had to make a living doing work that paid. Very few artists ever make a living off their art. It's usually something you work at because it's part of you, is necessary to make you complete, because otherwise you wouldn't continue to do such hard work without monetary reward. Of course not all societies are like this. Some societies value the arts highly because the arts are a major part of their culture. In most if not all indigenous societies (peoples of the Americas, of Australia, etc) there is no term for 'art', because art is not viewed as a separate activity or product & is not bought or sold. Rather, it performs a spiritual function for the artist & for the culture as a whole. This indigenous art is different from religious art of western cultures. Western Christian art has historically sought to teach viewers the beliefs & doctrines of the Christian religion. It has not historically sought to induce revelations in its viewers, which is a major function of most traditional art of native peoples. For these peoples, art is a means of inducing spiritual revelations, with these revelations allowing the viewer to experience the sacred. There are no deities or doctrines in traditional native religion--rather, a certain sacred quality exists within (or alongside) the everyday reality we perceive. Thus the wind, plants, animals, the sun--everything--all have a living core of sacredness. This sacred reality lives with or alongside each of us as well as within or alongside all we perceive as of this earth, with the earth itself being alive & sacred. But either way, traditional native or modern society, art (incl. music) is not simply a gift one is born with. It takes long learning & practice to create.

@@janegarner6739 thank you for writing that excellent mini-essay. It's a feature of the skewed perspective of Civilization that people view art as either an occupation or hobby to do while you do 'real' work. It can be so hard for us to step aside of that worldview. Art as a Human trait is exactly how it should be seen (and that this level of performance is a beautiful show of dedication and sacrifice). It's a horrible loss that you only find tribal/aboriginal attitudes toward these activities in little pockets like certain 'odd' families. Civilization has narrowed and homogenized how we do everything to the point where spiritual actualization has to be wrested from the day's work hours rather than woven into nearly every action taken.

@ödīñ ŵïlšøń yeah but the majority of it is very clear, I actually enjoyed the extra information, I guess it depends on the readers as well. 🤷🏻‍♂️

"Wherever you are"? Well I imagine they're in the ground

How sweet it is!

PM Couldn't have put it differently old chap.

Agree 100 per cent; this is the great side of You Tube

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Adrian Rollini on Vibraphone was an American similar, I see there are a few Teddy Browns in recommendations when you see this video

The Jersey J: You are 75 years too late for him to appreciate, but it's a nice thought.

I agree except the minstrel show that may have closely accompanied this presentation

Hey, Teddy - quit stealing my moves!

Worthless trivia you'll never use: It's called a "gliss". Short for glissando. You're welcome.

@Ryandal Gilmore You seem like a jerk. Hopefully this is just a bad day, and I hope everything gets well soon

@@christowers7307 I know... such venom directed at an innocuous comment. I feel sorry for him.

@@gregretro Thanks Greg I did want to know! Do you play as well? What other xylophone players are of note?

Do you know ,youare right. Big people are surprisingly light on their feet Oliver Hardy for example.

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work. -S. King

start practising and one day you'll reach him

Talent doesn’t exist. It’s just an excuse used by lazy people

Practice xylophone every day for 3 hours and you'll get there in about a decade or so.

Talento y horas y horas de estudio

I mean, in the world of percussionists he was one of the greats. Might just be the fact his name is pretty common He was commonly spoken about in the same breath as Paul Whiteman

"Talent is 99% perspiration and 1% inspiration."

@Logan Pitsenberger Not necessarily.Someone could have the "talent",but if they don't work on it,they will probably never develop their "gifts."

No such thing as talent - you simply find something you love, and you do it over, and over, and over, and over, and over again until you reach your limit... I've been a chef for more than 25 years, worked all over the world, now own two restaurants and still love to cook on my days off. Not once have I ever thought myself 'talented'. Skilled yes, but talented, no.. Michael Jordan loved basketball, David Beckham loved football, Babe Ruth loved baseball, and this guy loved xylophone...

@@bobshiruncle7746 Absolute nonsense. You can practice all day every day and never be as good as the greats. Where your respective "limit" is is based on your aptitude. That's talent.

@@bobshiruncle7746 More "blank slate" BS. Funny, it's always untalented people who push it.

And piano! And he appeared in films. He was in Convict 99 with The late great Will Hay

There is a video of him on a single snare drum floating around KZfaq

Different times. Back then Teddy would have been considered quite a hottie so there was no offense to it.

aaah the good old days when people had a sense of humor

@@Paolur lmao I agree

@@Paolur I laughed and I'm fat.

Love his chins!

those ankles are showing for sure

@@adachy He made all the corsets drop.

Being talented at an instrument doesn't make you "bring ladies home". Being talented at ladies does.

He's good with the sticks 😉

oh

Could you imagine his blood pressure?

Sad he had to go so young. He was a genius no doubt

@@kathrynmcmorrow7170 They measured it with psi as scale.

How sad. But thanks for the information. I had never heard of him before watching this.

I surely do understand! My mother played the marimba for years all over Salt Lake City. This brought back memories for me... good memories!!

Stinky stank, I HATE it when people see something impressive in the realm of human performance, and just dismiss it as "talent" as if THEY had any idea how anyone gets that good. I assure you, it is NOT talent, although a talented person can probably achieve the performance level with a bit less work, even they must put in a TON if work to get that good.

@@youtuuba I wasn't arguing that talent cant be acquired... generally saying someone has talent is a complement, by its English definition, so maybe just stop typing out opinionated paragraphs to people like your some KZfaq mod

Honestly, I think this is actually talent tho. I mean, it's the 1930's during wartime and there's a musician of this caliber

@@thefakedivvy , wow, you really can't understand. How long do you think the war lasted? You think he just picked up playing during the war?

@@youtuuba The war lasted decades since there was two world wars so it is very impressive with all of the hysteria that he was able to lead the entertainment industry. But I doubt you would be able to understand that fully with your lack of knowledge on history and your narrow minded thinking

Да. Он был крутой.

"Intelligent, miraculous, authentic musician."

In Latin America (or at least the country i live) we still use the xylophone (we call it marimba) and the accordion a lot, it's part of our folklore and traditional music.

@@Demons972 Marimba's tend to have a sustain system on them, so similar, but not the same. Dont Forget Percussionist Dame Evelyn Glenny with Xylophones, etc. The Music Colleges all have grade syllabuses for tuned percussion.

innocence: The accordion is popular in Europe as well. I was referring to America during the 30's through the 60's and perhaps the 70's. I think those instruments began to lose popularity when rock 'n' rock came to being because they are not adaptable. Buddy Holly had one in his early band as did one or two folk groups but the instrument fizzled. It just didn't fit with the music, image or the times.

Have to defend the accordion. It is very popular in many countries....it is the national instrument in China with millions of players. In Russia it is considered a classical instrument (Bayan) just like a violin or piano and is taught in the finest music conservatories alongside other orchestral instruments. Here in the US it is less popular now than up to the rise of Rock and Roll. I can remember when you went into a music store in 50s and there would be rows of accordions for sale and not a guitar to be seen. When the electric guitar came out the volume it could put out made it very popular but accordion has come back with a vengeance. Amplified accordions were the first but now MIDI and electronic accordions that have synthesizers in them so they can duplicate any instrument and create their own. Many groups now use them in place of keyboards. A musician is stuck behind a keyboard, whereas a electronic accordionist has the freedom to move around just like a guitar player. There are many accordionists today who play at the same level as any virtuoso on other instruments. Go to KZfaq and check out some of them. There are accordion clubs in the US. I was in a large one when I lived in San Francisco and there are about 4 other accordion groups in the SF Bay Area. In fact the official instrument of San Francisco is the accordion. Here in Detroit area of Michigan the Michigan Accordion Society has 260 members although Covid has put a damper on those clubs and musicians of all types are really suffering from minimum number of gigs. Here in the US the accordion is featured in all cultures just as it is in other countries....latin, tex mex, cajun, zydeco, country, folk, jazz, rhythm and blues, soul, etc. And it is being used in rock groups.

@@RobertKarlBerta I'd like to be wrong about the future of the accordion but don't see the instrument coming back as it was, and it is that of which I write. I know there are a few scattered groups of hangers on throughout this great land, and I know accordion is popular outside the U.S. and is used as a novelty backup in some ethnic groups and featured in the polka band for a few measures, but the heydays of accordion music composers, arrangers and players like Pietro Deiro, Frosini, Magnante, Gallerini, Gaviani, Van Damm, Sash and of course Welk's Myron Floren are of the days of yore and are no more.

The Great Depression wasn’t so fun either

So true. The music halls were awash with fantastic talent

The small hats ruined everything.

@@raymondturner1478 What do you mean by small hats ?

@@pierrickreveillere3768 Take a guess.