Listener comments!

Wed. 7/11/07 5:39am From: Chris Zwarg

There's two titles missing from your playlist today - Prihoda's violin solo and "Ballin' the Jack" (before and after the Fiddlin' Powers piece). I'd appreciate your correcting this and giving the matrix numbers. Further, I find that the version of "Hands up" is slightly different from my own copy. I have noticed this with several other cylinders in earlier broadcasts as well, and wonder why you are not including the TAKE numbers for cylinders (although you kindly list it for the DDs, which has been very helpful for my own discographical work). On all 4-minute cylinders as well as on late 2-minute ones, the take is coded as a number of small dots following the word "PAT'D" on the cylinder rim, so it should be no great problem to include that info when you copy the originals to digital media. Thank you, and keep up the good work!

Wed. 7/11/07 10:44am From: Rich Lagerman

Hi Mike...we met a few years back at the "half-way-done,hard hat open house. You do a wonderful job with the show. Always a pleasure. Do you have mx 19073 (Sugar is Back In Town) & 19072(Deep Night), both on Ed52538 by Mike Landau ? Also anything by Louis Lillienfeld, tests or unknowns of the later 20s. Thanks very much
Rich.

Sun. 7/15/07 11:33am From: MathGeek

That Seven Blue Babies record you played at the end of your show was sure interesting. Do you happen to know the personnel on that record? The sax soloist at 1:45 on that record is very good.

Mon. 7/16/07 6:51am From: Chris Zwarg

Thanks for the super-exact take descriptions added! Hope it isn't too much hassle for you to keep doing it this way - collectors and discographers will surely appreciate it. And indeed - my copy of "Hands up" is take -2 (two dots), and you have been playing -1, no more guesswork needed.

Sun. 7/22/07 10:24pm From: rhammond

The home recording with "Momma's Baby" sure sounds like Harry Louder to me. Was this some kind of an unmarked test recording?

Mon. 7/23/07 3:39pm From: Steven G. Levine

Jerry,

By my reckoning, as of July 10th, you have played on this show 746 Diamond discs, 178 Amberol cylinders, and 166 Gold moulded cylinders. 190 pieces were listed as Fox trots (which should be spelled with a capital F, as the dance was named after vaudeville actor Harry Fox. (Not sure if the Turkey trot was named after Tom Turkey, though)). 189 were "orchestras" and 107 "bands." 123 mentioned "piano," 96 mentioned "vocal." 100 were from the year 1927, 92 from 1928, and 77 from 1924.

I sometimes wonder why people tell me I have too much free time on my hands.

Steve..

Sun. 9/9/07 6:00am From: Rolf den Otter

Thanks! I just heard the podcast....
Are there more concert cylinders comng?
Vasa Prihoda is always a pleasure to hear...
Frisco "Jass" Band record was extremly clear on my headphones....

Rolf
http://homepages.ipact.nl/~otterhouse
(my classical lp->mp3 hobby page, updated every friday)
http://www.youtube.com/otterhouse
(my classical music youtube channel)

Wed. 5/28/08 5:12pm From: Colin Age 11 From Austin, TX

I love UtM by The Frisco Jass Band

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