Old favorites....

[electra225]

I recorded a group of 78-rpm records on an old Voice of Music 730 "Tape-O-Matic" tape recorder (that I still have) sometime in the late 1960's. In about 2011 or so I got energetic and transferred the music from the old mono R-R tape to digital, then on to a CD. Naturally, the next step in the process was to misplace the CD. I found it recently and took the opportunity to play it today. Most of the records I processed belonged to my grandmother. Her Arthur Godfrey album, a couple old Victor records allegedly purchased while she was in high school during WW1. One of dad's Cliffie Stone records which are certainly not my favorites, but do remind me of dad's square dancing days. The highlights of this collection would be "Little Red Monkey" a Rosie Clooney record, on the Golden label, yellow plastic ten-inch record, with the Golden Orchestra, conducted by one Mitchell Miller. "I'm Looking Over A Four-Leaf Clover" and "The Thousand Island Song" by Arthur Godfrey. "Slow Poke" and "Too Fat Polka" his 1946 smash hit that probably would not even be allowed on radio at all nowadays. "Can she fit in my coupe, by herself she's a group". They just don't write stuff like that anymore.

Little Red Monkey:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyCbs7s ... rt_radio=1

Too Fat Polka:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9h-a9cv ... rt_radio=1

"Barcelona" and "On The Riviera. I would love to have been able to hear these two songs recorded in stereo!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xi5Hc89 ... rt_radio=1