The Last Sunset of 2007
By Ray on December 30, 2007 - 9:00pm
In case you're thinking "This isn't the last day of the year! What's the matter with that Old Coot anyway?", I just have one thing to say: "Wait and see!"
And enjoy your evening, everyone.
Each year about this time, most of us get a little nostalgic for the so-called "good old days of yesteryear", and each of us handles that a little differently, perhaps. One of my ways of doing it is to dust off the old Technics Quartz Direct Drive Turntable, and then also dust off some old 12-inch vinyl LPs, and reconnect with my misspent youth and my colorful past, while tapping my foot to the music. Doing all that this afternoon, I came across a really old record I'd forgotten I still had.
It's an old 78 RPM from the Roaring Twenties which once belonged to my Mom, and which I played on an old wind-up Victrola in our garage back home, when I was just six or seven. After all that abuse, it still plays - but now I don't have a 78 RPM turntable, so I had to test it on 45 RPM on this Technics. It's much too slow at 45, but the music is still there. "And what's the music on it?", you ask. It's "All I Do Is Dream Of You" (the tune that B.C. Tel once used for their commercials) and it's done by Jan Garber and His Orchestra, with vocal refrain by Fritz Heilbron (it says here), and around the outside of the label, it says: "Victor Talking Machine Company of Canada Limited, Montreal" which was the forerunner of the R.C.A. Victor Company. There's no date, but the record's number is 24629-A, made back in the good old days when men were men and gals were naturally double-breasted. Trust me - would I lie to you?
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
Great story Ray!- lol it certainly made me chuckle. And may I add a beautiful sunset as well!
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