Topic releases its first record
Britain's declaration of war on Germany rather overshadowed the release of a 78rpm disc called The Man That Waters Down the Workers' Beer by Paddy Ryan. With the Internationale on the reverse, it was remarkable only for the catalogue number TRC1, marking the first release of the new Topic Record Club, formed as an adjunct of the Workers Music Association by frontline composers and musicians with leftwing sympathies such as Benjamin Britten , Peter Pears and John Ireland. More than 70 years later, Topic is still going strong, upholding its claim as the world's oldest independent label, having long established a formidable reputation as the unsullied guardian of Britain's folk tradition. Its exhaustive back catalogue includes not only many of the traditional singers who kept the songs alive when nobody else gave a fig, but most of the leading revivalists who gave these songs a new lease of life. Topic Records has been both launch pad and sanctuary for key artists such as Ewan MacColl, Bert Lloyd, the Watersons, Shirley Collins, Martin Carthy, June Tabor, Martin Simpson and Eliza Carthy, while its astonishing 20-CD The Voice of the People series – released in 1998 without thought of profit-making – provides a treasure trove of traditional material for new generations.
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Britain's declaration of war on Germany rather overshadowed the release of a 78rpm disc called The Man That Waters Down the Workers' Beer by Paddy Ryan. With the Internationale on the reverse, it was remarkable only for the catalogue number TRC1,
She marched me to the record player and pulled out a couple of 78 RPM records. One of them was “Smoke Gets in Your Eyes.” We didn't try to imitate Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. I was 12 years old and felt awkward dancing with my mother, but I guessed
His label only releases 78s by musicians whose sound suits the medium. “It's a thrill as well as an honour,” says LaFarge of the experience of being presented with a 78 bearing his name. “Lewis records just as it was done in the 1930s.
We're operating today at 78 rpm (that's fast for those unfamiliar with those things called "records") Without further delay, let's dive into the rough chop by the Potomac. Andrew: why is someone at ESPN saying Shelby Miller could be up by this
Going through an old box of miscellaneous treasures from my past I discovered a set of records. These were 78 rpm records from 1948 when I was two years of age. One of them was “Little Toot,” the story in song of a little tugboat in New York.
MP3s of childrens 78 rpm records from 1948 - Boing Boing
My childhood record player didn't have electronics - it was the type that the big fat needle was mechanically connected to the membrane of the speaker, which was on the arm that held the needle. If I remember right, it had a crank. The records were the size of 45s, but I don't know if they were actually 45 or 78rpm.
(My parents had several generations of real record players, but my younger siblings and I weren't allowed to mess with those until we were old enough to handle them carefully - the kiddie one was about as kid-proof as such a thing could get, if you don't mind the records getting increasingly scratchy, which we didn't because that was how records always sounded.)
And in spite of the whitebread suburban vanilla 50s early childhood I had, I still have to remember that most people's moms probably did sing them "Twinkle twinkle little star" instead of the "Twinkle twinkle little bat" version from Alice in Wonderland that I grew up with.
Thanks for that kiddierecords.com link, Kind Stranger!
One of these days I hope to get around to searching for the album that plays in Barry's room when the aliens come to visit in "Close Encounters." I had the album when I was a kid; would love to find it again. I don't suppose any Boingers of A Certain Age would know the one with "The Shape of a Square"?
If you're lucky enough to have a turntable with an RCA output, then it just takes a RCA-to-miniplug cord. When I transfered my parents' old Sesame Street LPs to MP3, I plugged my record player into my Mac and used Audacity to capture the raw audio. From there it was pretty straight forward to add tracks, clear up any clicks/pops, and export to MP3.
There are record players out there that have USB ports and are designed for digital conversion, but they're spendy.
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