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Post by sparepart on Dec 31, 2019 11:56:58 GMT
Need help from the team on this one: We were gifted $750 to acquire a music library that covers the WW II era (our host site is a former WW II era Army Base )
Here's the list of artists that I have at least one CD or LP of: Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, The Andrews Sisters, Bing Crosby, Tommy Dorsey, Cole Porter, Dizzy Gillespie, Jule Styne, Sammy Cahn, Axel Stordahl, Paul Weston, Jerome Kern, Ira Gershwin, Thelonious Monk, Cootie Williams, Charlie Parker, Duke Ellington, and Buddy Johnson
Who else should be under consideration?
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Post by station8 on Dec 31, 2019 14:12:34 GMT
Howdy All:
First off as a disabled army veteran thanks for what your doing i wish more station would do this!!!.
Here is some old and new groups.
1) The memhis belles
2) D- day Darlings
3) vera lynn
4) George formby
5) Jo stafford
6) less brown & his orchestra
7) Air raid sirens
8) Sheridan smith
9) The Rockabella's
10) Maria manchester
11) LiLi marlene
12) Jayne darling
13) Jill Daniels
14) violet rea
15) The lennon sisters
16) puppin sisters
17) Honey bee trio
18) The bombshell belles
Look at allot of your big band seing they did allot as well.
Getting off here do to internet issues
Hope this helps out
Station8
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Post by mark on Dec 31, 2019 17:02:38 GMT
Also Billie Holiday, Glen Miller, The Weavers, Rosemary Clooney, Kay Star, Patti Page, Lena Horne, Doris Day, The Ink Spots, Vera Lynn to add a few.
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Post by End80 on Dec 31, 2019 20:56:49 GMT
You may want to check out the AFRTS archive (The American Forces Radio and Television service) afrtsarchive.blogspot.com/p/afrts-by-year.html It has some really cool downloadable original hour long radio broadcast which sounds perfect for what your looking for. The recordings (from the original distributed LPs) span from 1942 to 1989.
I haven't actually listened to any of the WWII era broadcast yet, but have checked out several of the Vietnam era and there's some cool stuff! For example did you know Pat Sajak (of Wheel of Fortune) had been a DJ back then? His program starts out with "Gooooood Mornnning Vietnam!" afrtsarchive.blogspot.com/2019/09/afvn-pat-sajack-1968.html, and then there's numerous episodes of "Date With Chris" a sexy DJ who plays a wide variety of music in this particular episode: afrtsarchive.blogspot.com/2019/12/chris-noel-1969.html
But for the WWII era your looking for then check out the 1940s categorized list. I lay odds you'll love it. |
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Post by sparepart on Jan 1, 2020 2:21:50 GMT
Thanks! will check out the AFRTS archive , and then hit the local used record palace to see what they have from the suggestions offered.
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Post by sparepart on Jan 4, 2020 4:45:03 GMT
Picked up a bunch of Big Band classic compilation CD's on the Rhino Flashback label for cheap - would prefer full LP or CD, but it's a start.
Started loading the collection into discogs so I can see if there's additional material I am missing.
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Post by mark on Jan 4, 2020 4:59:20 GMT
If you check Amazom there loads of CDs....1000s of the artists mentioned in suggestions. Just lookup Rosemary Clooney for example and there's lots. Lots of collections also.
I remember from before you don't want to use Youtube downloader. For less than $750 you can get an amazing library of swing era music vocal and instrumental.
Nice to see you are getting a nice selection. You have a lot of great selections suggested here. There are some fantastic 5 or more CD sets and you can get a lot in a set. On the majority the tracks are listed
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Post by sparepart on Jan 4, 2020 13:00:15 GMT
If you check Amazom there loads of CDs....1000s of the artists mentioned in suggestions. Just lookup Rosemary Clooney for example and there's lots. Lots of collections also. I remember from before you don't want to use Youtube downloader. For less than $750 you can get an amazing library of swing era music vocal and instrumental. Nice to see you are getting a nice selection. You have a lot of great selections suggested here. There are some fantastic 5 or more CD sets and you can get a lot in a set. On the majority the tracks are listed Good point re Amazon - will check when I get home from the studio. Painting the room we will be using as the office today....
From what I understand, If you have the original media, no one can accuse you of distributing bootlegs (which is a crime) vs playing improperly licensed music.
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Post by Boomer on Jan 9, 2020 8:59:32 GMT
Big band era
The compilations seem to be good, my mom used to get those on record and cassette, I think the company was Good Times Music or similar, and advertised in magazines she got, like the K-Tel for big band fans. It was good to have, because the big band stations had changed formats, but some people were still into the music.
I remember Spike Jones, 'Swing Sisters' a compile of Andrew Sisters style war-era songs, and Master Of The Pan Flute - Zamfir. It should be pretty easy to find a lot of old music on CD, and use a jukebox or you may have to rip it all to a computer, and I hope you can broadcast it. You'll need vintage radios around to receive it, that would be nice memories for those who lived in that time and newer people to find out what it was like.
I don't know what the deal is with bootleg music, radio stations use it all the time. Then there's a college station in my area where students constantly play music directly from YouTube in real time and from their phones, no control over where that comes from. I hate to bring it up, since it could cause a rights-oriented nerdgasm among people here, it always does. This group could use some more posting though.
Boomer
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Post by sparepart on Jan 9, 2020 23:07:44 GMT
Big band eraYou'll need vintage radios around to receive it, that would be nice memories for those who lived in that time and newer people to find out what it was like. Boomer
Right across the street...
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Post by sparepart on Jan 12, 2020 21:16:35 GMT
Appreciate the leads on the artists! Many thanks team
Progress - I grabbed the rest of the Big Band classic compilation CD's on the Rhino Flashback label from Amazon. Also picked up 52+ CD of Big Band and Jazz standards for dirt cheap. Links to the pictures as they are not cataloged or loaded into the automation system yet (Opensource Rivendell)
SP
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Post by mark on Jan 13, 2020 0:43:38 GMT
Boomer said "I remember Spike Jones, 'Swing Sisters' a compile of Andrew Sisters style war-era songs, and Master Of The Pan Flute - Zamfir. It should be pretty easy to find a lot of old music on CD, and use a jukebox or you may have to rip it all to a computer, and I hope you can broadcast it. You'll need vintage radios around to receive it, that would be nice memories for those who lived in that time and newer people to find out what it was like".
All the new computers now have no CD drive to rip anymore unfortunately. I think you can get a separate cd drive that you connect to USB externally. With Groove music or media player can you still rip from that? I fortunately use a IBM Thinkpad T430 which has a CD rom but no new ones do.
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Post by sparepart on Jan 13, 2020 2:05:39 GMT
I have a USB external DVD/CD drive from Amazon, plus we saved a bunch of 5.25" DVD/CD drives from computers being scrapped. On that we are good for the foreseeable future.
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Post by sparepart on Feb 16, 2020 19:08:37 GMT
Quick update: Thanks to our funding donor, I have been on an acquisition spree, and in a small handful of cases, found original pressings of the music in question. Considering the age of the pressing, and potential for damage, I reached out to the music team at the Library of Congress to see if these pressings have been archived yet, and if not, we will work with the LOC to conserve both the media and the music. Byproduct of the search: We have been gifted a very large music collection, the majority on CD, with a bunch of vinyl only releases. The donor has very eclectic tastes in some areas (I'm listening to Japanese traditional music in heptatonic, seven tone scale at the moment) The plan is copy them to the Rivendell playout system www.rivendellaudio.org/, and store the original media (to prove first purchase for copyright reasons) The CD total is well over two thousand, and likely a multiple of that. Here's the question for the team: Storage of the original media or disks. I'm willing to purchase either wall racks, or media storage cabinets for them. Links to two examples, open to other suggestions Personally leaning towards can-am, however open to suggestions as not to make an expensive mistake SP |
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Post by sparepart on Jun 7, 2020 17:33:56 GMT
Following up - Library is currently around 5200 LP and CD's. We went with Can-AM MC4D27 cabinets, each holds 1080 CD. So far we have two, scraping up cash for more. Here's some of the overflow....
We have been busy ripping CD's to the Rivendell playout system. The database is backed up to portable drives and stored off-site Takeaway: - We have rapidly realized we need automation to deal with the metadata.
- While ripping, we started to see just how many duplicates we have.
- The database is backed up to portable drives and stored off-site. Cheapest way, likely not the best
SP
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