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Some FUN-eral 78rpm Records From Chicago!
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Күн бұрынToday we look at some 78rpm records from the attic of a funeral home in Chicago! Organ solos on obscure (and perhaps custom/special order) labels; including some found with their original album, and some ephemera to boot!
These discs would have been used as background (or even foreground) music in funeral homes in the 30's and 40's. They eventually ended up stuffed in the attic of the funeral home, where they stayed until the home closed last year and the contents were evaluated by an antiques dealer.
They ended up in my collection. I just hope they aren't haunted.
@misterjive273 7 ай бұрын
As a Chicagoan who also collects our dead format, thanks for digging these up and researching this grave subject for us. 😉
@MrWolfSnack 2 ай бұрын
I heard some people were just DYING to get their hands on them!
@mr50sagain55 7 ай бұрын
Awesome video, Mark, on a topic that I’ve wondered about for quite some time!...Imagine listening to these wonderful records on a Victor Orthophonic Credenza!!...or listening to Glen Paxton in 1937 at Indiana locations such as Taggert’s French Lick Springs Hotel or the L. H. Inn (Lincoln Highway? Inn) while dining on the frog legs dinner special)!!!...(comment source: The South Bend Tribune 29 Mar 1937)
@Bigbadwhitecracker 7 ай бұрын
Wow! I have several Sherris records. Red... vinyl, I think. I don't think they are shellac. 78rpm. I think they are later editions. But very cool looking. Kind of creepy.
@MrWolfSnack 2 ай бұрын
My suggestion on finding out these businesses would be to take a guess at an approximate year to start, and then look for a city directory for that year, and find the business, get the address, then plug that into google and see if you can turn up some newspaper archive hits. And try and think of words that were used in the period when doing OCR searches.
@bobsoldrecords1503 6 ай бұрын
Fun prank. Call a funeral parlour and ask to speak to Myra Manes But seriously, don't do it.😂
@codex3048 7 ай бұрын
1:54 A band consisting of xylophone, violin, electric organ, and steel guitar. Must've sounded weird, or at least different!
@MarkAtnip 7 ай бұрын
That was the lineup at the Shelton Corner Lounge inside the Shelton Hotel in NYC. Dinah Shore was a vocalist for this group when she was 22 (in 1939). Those must have been some interesting arrangements.
@codex3048 7 ай бұрын
@@MarkAtnip Did they make records?
@MrWolfSnack 2 ай бұрын
@@MarkAtnip Oh wow that was pretty early in her career, maybe even before her career. A full decade before her breakout hit "baby its cold outside".
@Gerk8 7 ай бұрын
These are the kind of records you might find in St. James Infirmary!
@zenithcoinsandhobbies 7 ай бұрын
I feel like I've heard the Morrison Recording Labs name before, but I just can't place it. They're certainly interesting 78s, though.
@klausschnieder8070 6 ай бұрын
Does this guy gave a business E-mail?
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