It is, you just have to view it the way they did. Sex sells cars. Now and then. They all get you from point A to B so what do you do to sell them?

yup

Every generations says the same thing of the newer generation's music

Damn right

One of the greatest singers of ALL time.

it's 2024 now

Indeed! :)

@@aileen9553 she means the crackling

There may be better examples but you can hear people still sing this today in the sound quality you expect. The scratches mean this recording was loved and listened to a lot. I had heard of it but not the whole song until recently when I heard two friends sing it live on line. They sing every day except Fridays live from North Beach. Songs from 1890's to 1930's.

Also could have been to make themselves seem more established. Oldsmobile just sounds like a company that’s been around forever. You would trust them to have reliable cars.

@@tommyl.dayandtherunaways820 That too

It's from the founder's name, Ransom Eli Olds, who also founded REO Motor Car Company.

@@JustCalMeBozeman Interesting

Judging by the sound quality it was actually recorded on a disc (disc and cylinder both existed in 1905) I think they just took out the horn of a car (not sure if it's an Oldsmobile horn)

I can assure you I never smoked weed

@PattiBowenSolutions Ragtime may have been influencing white pianists in 1905. The record companies weren't recording them.(?) "White" and "Black" can and should be viewed differently because their music was and is different (James Brown in the 60's. I don't know Rap.), especially in the first days of recording. The races were segregated and there was not a lot of crossover, even on plantations, I would guess. Whites singing was pretty square until records by Louis Armstrong, Ethel Waters, etc. influenced Bing Crosby, etc., as I understand it.

@PattiBowenSolutions I should read up on it. I'm familiar with Emmett Miller, a very influencial white singer who performed in blackface in minstrel shows and recorded in 1924. (Nick Tosches wrote an unusual book about him.) That was before Louis Armstrong sang on record, I think. I'll read and listen more about it.

Well another thing to consider is that Jazz also came about in the era of electric recording, which completely changed the way artists recorded songs and gave them far more freedom. Back then, the recording was so crude that even if there had been embellishments, you really wouldn’t have heard it over the wall of sound being presented. Singers like Murray had to practically shout to make the themselves heard over the background orchestra, since they all performed live. They also would’ve had to perform the same song over and over and over since only a few hundred copies could be made with each recording. So it would have encouraged them to keep it simple.

@@tommyl.dayandtherunaways820Interesting. I never knew that there are many "takes" of one song that were released in those days. Perhaps somebody has collected all the takes of a song.by a certain singer. It would be interesting to know when this practice was no longer necessary. It stopped before electrical recording because some acoustic records sold a million copies.

@@Birdlives247 No tan cuadrada. A principios de 1900 causaba furor en EEUU un estilo de canción sincopada, las coon song o canciones de negros muy estrechamente vinculadas con el ragtime. Esta de Billy Murray no tiene síncopa, es una canción al viejo estilo del siglo XIX. Por el compás es claramente un waltz-song.

maybe... but having sex in a car of that era would have been a very uncomfortable, and non private, endeavor

Going as far as one would like back then would probably have been nothing more than kissing and necking. Shocking enough. Remember the time. Queen Victoria was barely cold in the grave.

@@Dallas_K then why didn't humans go extinct you fucking moron?😂😂

@@traceydunne7854 That was not necessary.

@@vinylsingleman yes it was

How fucking stupid can you be

@@aileen9553 i dont mean you I mean the other guy who was talking about BILL murray

@@aileen9553 richard was making a joke because there is an actor and comedian alive today named Bill Murray

@@jellyrollmorton2051 hi jelly, Im a fan

@@billymurray705 i am also a fan of you. I have several of your discs.

Say that to my face

Imagine trying to make yourself heard with a full orchestra playing just feet away from you. And imagine your microphone is a massive tube that you have to shout into for 3 minutes. And you have to sing the same song over and over and over because each recording will only get you a few hundred copies. That’s what recording was like back then.

@@tommyl.dayandtherunaways820 that was in the 1890s, in 1905 sound could be could be copied from just one record

@@zekeg6068 As a lifelong hobbyist historian I needed this info. Thanks guys.

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I Hate Haters and Emos! I dont see any other comments from you in this video so you probably go finding hate comments & act triggered Also i noticed you had the wrong "Your" heres the diffrence Your is when you comment on something You're is something that belongs to you

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