Post by Stephen Byers on Aug 15, 2016 8:49:37 GMT
Buster Keston - early recording
Sunday, 14 August, 2016 20:54
From: Association for Recorded Sound Discussion List <ARSCLIST@listserv.loc.gov>
On this tape, recorded at a party in 1962. Buster Keaton sings with ukulele and talks about vaudeville (19teens), blue material, and sings a bit of a blues with mention of "high yeller woman". The
recording is an extra in the new UK blu-ray Keaton Shorts 1917--23 dvd set, but has been issued previously on a Masters of Cinema DVD set, and there was an NPR show (seems sound file now deleted).
The 14.4 realaudio file of the NPR show is still accessible at this url:
www.npr.org/programs/lnfsound/stories/990806.stories.html
It plays with VLC, but the audio quality is poor.
The text on the page where this audio appears is "Quest for Sound Curator Jay Allison brings us Buster Keaton. Listener Bob Borgen has a tape of the silent film star at a party in 1962. Some friends gave him a ukelele and recorded his songs, stories and memories of Vaudeville."
Perhaps "Bob Borgen" has a better copy, but this it was originally aired in NPR Aug 6, 1999.
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Sunday, 14 August, 2016 20:54
From: Association for Recorded Sound Discussion List <ARSCLIST@listserv.loc.gov>
On this tape, recorded at a party in 1962. Buster Keaton sings with ukulele and talks about vaudeville (19teens), blue material, and sings a bit of a blues with mention of "high yeller woman". The
recording is an extra in the new UK blu-ray Keaton Shorts 1917--23 dvd set, but has been issued previously on a Masters of Cinema DVD set, and there was an NPR show (seems sound file now deleted).
The 14.4 realaudio file of the NPR show is still accessible at this url:
www.npr.org/programs/lnfsound/stories/990806.stories.html
It plays with VLC, but the audio quality is poor.
The text on the page where this audio appears is "Quest for Sound Curator Jay Allison brings us Buster Keaton. Listener Bob Borgen has a tape of the silent film star at a party in 1962. Some friends gave him a ukelele and recorded his songs, stories and memories of Vaudeville."
Perhaps "Bob Borgen" has a better copy, but this it was originally aired in NPR Aug 6, 1999.
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