YouTube thread of people's mom's singing Patsy Cline songs on reel-to-reel circa 1963

i.e. who is Linda V's mom and why haven't I heard of her!?

THE MAN I USED TO KNOW--Sung by Mom
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsAktdRnECM

THE MAN I USED TO KNOW: Written by Betty Sue Perry, made popular by Kitty Wells in the early 1960s.

Mom filled our childhood with music. We didn't always have a TV, but Mom always had her guitar. She recorded this song at home in 1961 or 1962.

TENNESSEE WALTZ: Sung by Mom
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnqV90Jz9a8

TENNESSEE WALTZ: Written by Redd Stewart & P.W. King

Mom singing--around 1957.

THE HOUSE OF THE RISING SUN --Sung by Mom
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zt0A5zT-1k

Mom recorded this song at home in 1970.

I'll Always Be With You
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGfKuA3_uCc

This original song "I'll Always Be With You" was written and sung by my Mom (Mary Cullum) and my Aunt Pearl Jones. This song was originally recorded on a reel to reel by my Dad Donald Edward Cullum in the late 1950s or early 1960s. My brother Joe Cullum created and preserved this stereo mix for me on a CD back in 1994. All music rights to this song are reserved by Pearl Jones. This video was made with permission from song writer and copyright holder Pearl Jones. All video images are property of me, Donald Bert Cullum. All video image rights are reserved by myself and my blood relatives. God bless you for watching.

Crazy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yU2bVtw0Gns

My Mom had such a beautiful voice. When we were little, Mom would sit and play guitar and sing, and record it on a reel-to-reel tape recorder. We have hours of her singing little bits of songs. This one is really special. I had to edit out a lot of tape noise so you can hear her sweet voice. I guess it's fitting that she's an angel now, because she certainly always sang like one. This is Lee Mings performing "Crazy" by Patsy Cline. It was most likely recorded sometime in the 60s or early 70s.

The picture is of Mom, but I'm not sure how old she was in this photo. I'm guessing she was in her early 20s.

Eddie Frazee Singing the Blues.wmv
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uh1TjmGoHFs

Eddie Carl Frazee singing the blues. Grandpa worked cutting timber and in sawmills in Tennessee throughout his life. He lost fingers and an eye making his living. He was however still able to play the blues quite well with the fingers he had left. Some of my earliest memories include Grandpa playing the blues. The music was recorded by my Dad in the early 1960s on a reel to reel. My brother Joe preserved the videos onto CDs. I made the video. Toward the end of the video you can hear kids slamming the screen door in the background. I am included amongst those kids making the racket.

Dad singing "Backin to Bermingham"-Sepia (low quality)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IHred1UO6g

Mom found this tape of Dad singing "Backing to Birmingham" recorded in 1978- no-one knew he did it, until Mom found it on the back side of one of her tapes. I set it to some photo's that Roger Bailey sent Mom from Uncle Warren and Uncle Harry's slides. All vocals and guitar work by Dad.

Fred Sutton - What Have You Got to Loose
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrGYAXS2RgY

Fred Sutton was my great uncle and he was the primary inspiration for me to pursue home recording of music throughout my life. Fred was always recording himself using various small reel to reel recorders. He introduced me to the concept of overdubbing by his use of multiple recorders and bouncing techniques to create multi layered recordings. He would record himself singing and playing guitar in one take and then bounce that over to another recorder while recording himself playing mandolin. Fred made a lot of recordings of himself throughout the 60s, 70s and 80s, but, to my knowledge, these are the only ones which have survived and which I have tried to preserve for many years. I'm happy now to be able to share them and preserve them in this format. This is simple folk music, but it is done with heart. S. Ugo R.

Grandma singing like Patsy Cline, circa 1964
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWSCNGs7sWc

Norma Louise Schneider White singing a capella.

Smart phone recording of quarter inch reel to reel four track recording from around 1964 of my grandmother singing a capella. Dad says the phone version sounds tinny, but her talent is still apparent!

Mary McIlree singing "Honey"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=es8yH0DBBkM

This is a recording of my Mom singing "Honey" probably in the early 40's. Back then you could go into a booth and recoed a minute of audio. I still get chills when I hear it!

Female entertainers, 1940's music.wmv
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnVy8tJPqW8

This is a recording of my mother (Patty King) and her partner (Charmaine) rehearsing in our kitchen in 1960's. Enjoy. :)

Miss Elma May Olsen - 1956
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03fBs_bz8P8

Here is my Mother at age 16, recording two songs on an old acetate recorder that belonged to her boyfriend. Recorded in my Grandmothers living room in 1956

songs:
Come Back to Me Johnny
Why Don't You Believe Me

The Olsen Sisters - 1956
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSJV5Ki9Sbk

With the passing of my dear Aunt Donna and the recent passing of my Mom. I would like to again share one of my all time favorite family Christmas stories. In 1956 my mother and sisters came up with the perfect Christmas gift for my Grandmother, or so they thought. The gift was an acetate recording of them singing Christmas Carols. However it backfired! When my Grandma heard her Grandfather clock chiming in the background of the recording, that's what clenched it, because it meant they had boys over when their parents were not at home.

It was my mom's boyfriend who owned the acetate recorder, but I believe they all got punished. So I decided to have a little fun and create a 50's style album cover to complete the gift that backfired and share it here with you all.

She Sings of Shadows (Song for Joni Mitchell)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsuHviCV3nE

A Song I had written about Joni Mitchell in the Mid Seventies.

Sung by my Great friend Mef Gannon & recorded on my Old
Reel to Reel in my Bedroom in 1978

This is one of the Few Songs I had written in Open Tuning.

Neil Nappe - Song For Mom(Someone Hears)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXrwALxPcFE

This was written & recorded 34 years ago in 1980 when I was 20. I gave my Mom a portable cassette player for Mother's Day. When she pressed play, she heard this. I managed to hack my Sony reel to reel to allow very basic overdubbing, and as such, this was my first "multitrack" effort. Apologies for the vocals, "Dammit Jim, I'm a guitar player, not a singer!" Happy Mother's Day, everyone.

Loretta plays and sings "Do-Do-Do" by Gershwin on the piano.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVv2xERkX8U

My mother used to be a violinist for the Portland Youth Symphony. She also played piano and in this rare candid recording she plays and sings the George Gershwin tune "Do-Do-Do" from the musical Oh Kay! (1926). She was just flipping through pages of a Gershwin songbook and playing songs at random in our living room, when my father recorded her singing on his reel to reel tape recorder. The old upright Mirra-Piano™ had seen better days -- you had to hit the keys hard to get a sound from them. The recording technology was far from the best, but this one tape is all I have of my mother's playing. She played 22 songs in a row. The audio portion was recorded in San Francisco circa 1962.

'The Coughlan Sisters' (unidentified recordings 50s/60s)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T19a1BkfeXs

An MP3.com page presented a few home recordings of three sisters singing Medieval-style rounds. The story was that the recordings were found in an attic and left behind by the prior owners: a family that died in a car crash (in 50's, I think). The neighbors that identified the recordings apparently had no idea that the sisters had studied singing.

recording of unknown woman on sony tc-905 reel to reel tape

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSRuFcApMAk

this is a recording of unknown origin. i found it on the sony tc-905 (i believe) reel to reel tape recorder thats in the video, which i purchased at a thift store in akron ohio. its a little over 12 mins. she has an accent which sounds like maybe dutch and shes speaking to someone named jimmy (who i assume was away at the time) about what she has been up to, the two getting married, a set of pearls he sent her etc. sounds pretty lonely at times.

1950's 78 rpm Acetate Recording - Can someone help identify?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwmgS-SOUyg

This is an old acetate I've owned for years. Actually it was acquired from my late-father some time ago. The only information I have is that it's obviously from the 1950's (sounding like perhaps somewhere from 53-56). It features a really young girl (about 10-12 of age) singing and an instrumental accompaniment. I'm really fond of the two-side recording and would just like to know if anyone listening might have a clue or more information relevant to this material. The photo is of the actual record as originally found (I've since replaced it with a better sleeve).

The first track is called: Friendly Feeling (as written in faint marker on it's proper side)
The second is what I've called: My Lil' Dolly
It appears to never been affixed with paper labels after disc cutting, so no further information is available as to the source or artist involved.

Mom singing in the 1940's

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Lj_AvvBYW8

This song has been taped from a victrola, and finally digitized.

On The Street Where You Live

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bb2XO6GZ8eA

Here's Mum (Mary) singing to a Philips reel to reel in the early 60s. The track was then transferred years later to a cassette, and then copied to another cassette, and finally to digital format. Obviously no backing tracks either in those days, she sang along with the band playing the melody too. Mum was born in 1925 so she would be about 36 when she sang this. The pic is one Dad took to war in the Far East in 1944 when he was engaged to her. He served in a submarine, HMS Rorqual.

Bye Bye Blues as recorded by the Harmonettes in about 1967

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtnHcS3qK5o

Old recording of my Mom's barbershop quartet. Check out the bell chords starting around 1:17 - wow!

<3 this thread so much

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izlUt6Awiys

Una cancion de nombre "Sufrir" del Caporal y La Ranchera grabado en los 70's con un video viejo tomado de la misma epoca. El Caporal y La Ranchera es mi Tio Edelmiro y mi mama Delia Gonzalez. .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksn0Wjw-EiY

Connie Converse, recording date unknown but probably early 50s.

great clip, drash (xpost)

I wish I had my own reissue label so I could release a collection of mid-20th century home recordings with a lofty title like Dreams of Mother and Home: Reel-to-Reel Sounds from America's Living Room — 1953 to 1979. the label would solicit submissions from the general public, and the CD booklet would include photographs and anecdotes about the performers. Connie Converse and Sibylle Baier got a lot of attention a few years ago, but afaik there aren't any noteworthy v/a compilations of amateur recordings like the stuff in this thread.

Joey Cal - Little Kid Sister of Mine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oJ2duat9lI

This recording is from the early to mid 50s, probably in a club down the combat zone in Boston... probably Jeromes or a club nearby. This one is for Claire :-)

My dad is in his mid 80s and still does this song. I'm so happy we had these old recordings. My guess is this one is late 50s.

Joey Cal - Please Help Me I'm Falling - c 1960s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zqizy04GBbg

Indian Joe - Lou Ventre [circa 1950} Rare 78 Acetate Recording

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7W3K7s7gk4

This is taken from one of the many vintage acetates I own (mostly acquired through rummage sales, etc.). I thought it was worthy of preservation sounding like a one-off recording with some interest despite the signer/songwriter's obscurity. As far as I'm aware of this is the only known copy to exist and fortunately it survived in near pristine condition, requiring only modest cleaning-up during the digital transferring process (though few light pops and clicks remain).

The accompanying photos were used by random and are of the era for your enjoyment. The actual disc was originally cut at 78 revolutions per second (on a Audiodisc blank) at Gold Star Recording Studios, Hollywood California circa 1950. No cat. # present. Enjoy.

I Dreamed- Betty Johnson Cover

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJVY_VJ2nmY

im not sure when it was recorded exactly. but this is an old recording my great aunt Pat and uncle Berry played together. she played piano, he played guitar and as im sure you can guess, that's the two of them in a duet together. just a cute little song.

My True Love :: Terry Peggy & Ted Sing :: The Lost Edmundson Recordings

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwUg7s8EKbQ

I don't know exactly when this one was recorded. It could have been any number of nights ; At family get togethers, three of them could lay down beautiful harmonies with an easy style that made it seem effortless. Such talent!

Mommalou Sings :: The Lost Edmundson Recordings

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_8P0nCvGC4

A rare clip of my Grandma singing, recorded sometime in the mid 1950's.

"Forty Year Ago" by Coral H. (Mattingly) Farabee

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-MYNs9DSLQ

This is a Wilcox-Gay audio recording of Coral H. (Mattingly) Farabee singing "Forty Years Ago" circa 1949. This song began as a poem in McGuffy's Fifth Eclectic Reader, I believe. Poem #44. I don't know who put it to music. I could only find 2 other recordings of it.

I think I might have one of these in my family. my grandparents are in the process of moving into senior living :( so they've been letting me go through their record collection, and I found this today:

http://i.imgur.com/S5zY0c0.jpg?1

I'm pretty sure that's a misspelling of my grandfather's name (it's spelled properly on the sleeve). I'll have to ask him what it is. unfortunately these lacquer discs are very fragile and I don't have the equipment or know-how to make a digital transfer.

(it looks pristine in the photo, but parts of the playing surface are coated in a greyish dust/residue, which is a sign of deterioration)

this Audiodisc is pretty kooky. the sound quality is decent aside from the points where it skips.

Audiodisc Day the Whole World Died UNKNOWN! Help identify??

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qISj691nnoM

Audiodisc Unknown Artist, tag line in song is The Day the Whole World Died. Can you identify the Artist?

not so much for the music but the milieu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7eAsUjqB55A

^feel bad for saying that; of course it's for the music too

btw that "day the whole world died" thing is amazing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDy5LUwKJWg

Kyle Athy Mid 1960's Saxophone Reel To Reel St Louis Music Band Name Opus 4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLhZVmwMigA

My grandpa's band from the mid 1960's on a reel. My grandpa plays saxophone on this recording. He also played clarinet, valve trombone and flute. The name of the band is Opus 4.

an empty bliss beyond the world

My music teacher singing the Prayer of St. Francis at age 18 in 1958. Pretty.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wavWhlZ41Zs

Dubbed from a reel to reel that was dubbed to and 8 track that was dubbed to an Mp3.... Senior High School Recital. June 1958. Age 18. Redwood Falls High School graduate. Save your footage!