When you gotta drop that needle.

External Since: Dec 30, 2005 Posts: 55

"Ed Hulse" <bnteditor.TakeThisOut@optonline.net> wrote in message
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> Years ago, quite by accident, I stumbled across a CD titled "Loose
> Elbows: Susan Tomes Plays the Piano Music of Billy Mayerl." I had
> never heard of Mayerl but I took a chance on the disc -- a 1989 Virgin
> Classics release -- and found it to make absolutely perfect
> accompaniment for silent comedies. Mayerl (1902-1959), for those who
> don't know, was a British musician who composed such sprightly,
> syncopated tunes as "Bats in the Belfry," "The Jazz Master," "Loose
> Elbows," "Railroad Rhythm," and others. As a teenager, he accompanied
> silent films at his local theatre, playing for up to five hours per
> night, seven nights a week.

Lots of Billy Mayerl music on CDs.

http://tinyurl.com/3ahjgt

www.Shemakhan.com

External Since: Sep 13, 2007 Posts: 5

Others may be interested in this too: The link to WFMU by Ken has a
episode featuring cuts from the Jewface CD (and an interview with the
compiler). I finally got to hear 'Cohen owes me $97':

http://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/21149

This just leaves me "Cohen on the Telephone" to check off of my not-
heard-yet list. Anyone know where that is online?

On Sep 13, 9:57 pm, Ken Winokur <all... RemoveThis @verizon.net> wrote:
> On Sep 13, 6:11 am, Robert Moulton <robertjohnmoul... RemoveThis @gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Last fall I showed some silent 8mm Laurel & Hardy's outside at a
> > cottage. It went over really well (phew!) and I've been asked to do
> > it again. Last year for music I was planning on using the Beau Hunks
> > recordings of Leroy Shields music but couldn't because the disc was in
> > deep storage as part of a house move.
>
> > I've found the disc now but am wondering if anyone has other
> > suggestions. Whatever I'll be showing it'll be a two-reel comedy from
> > Keaton, Chaplin, or Laurel & Hardy.
>
> If you're looking for traditional music, why not go all the way and
> get original recordings of ragtime and early jazz. I suggest that you
> go on the web and look at the Antique Phonograph Show on radio station
> WFNU, out of East Orange NJ (just across the river from NYC). The
> show, which airs every week, actually puts a microphone in front of
> wind up gramophone players. They don't play any music that was
> recorded after recordings started using electricity (which I believe
> was 1926). There is an archive of hundreds of shows to draw material
> from, which is available free any time you want.
>
> Other than that I suggest that you look at Document or Yazoo CDs.
> They are companies that specialize in old music and have an
> unbelievable wealth of early recordings. My favorite is a Document
> Records CD called Jazz in St. Louis, 1929 - 1937. Of course I'm from
> St. Louis, but even for somebody who didn't grow in this center of
> ragtime and early jazz, this is an exceptional selection of music.
>
> Ken