[78-L] Pete Kelly's Bruise

[Bud Black]

Sometimes called a "band organ."

Sent from my iPad

On Mar 24, 2013, at 4:12 PM, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca> wrote:

> Whatcha want for it? If it's what was played on the soundtrack, it's one of 
> those "so bad I gotta have it" items, and I haven't bought anything like that 
> in years. I knew it wasn't a calliope, but I couldn't think of the correct 
> "mechanical organ" term.
> 
> dl
> 
> On 3/24/2013 3:42 PM, Rodger Holtin wrote:
>> A number of years ago I picked up a pinkish-red 78 Columbia # 40592 labelled as by Pete Kelly's Orchestrion, title tune and I Never Knew. It looks like the original owner never played it and I hadn't either until I read all this stuff here today about Pete and Jack Webb.
>> 
>> Interesting story turns up about it in Billboard, Oct 15, 1955, even providing the name of the guy who "played" the thing, and the recording date (the previous Wednesday).
>> http://books.google.com/books?id=2SMEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA16&lpg=PA16&dq=pete+kelly's+orchestrion&source=bl&ots=5xTtHCtSpa&sig=0cB-CIXciJ-yDVi6Uvp6ECRkvF8&hl=en&sa=X&ei=xktPUdrqH4S08QTxhoDADw&sqi=2&ved=0CDoQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=pete%20kelly's%20orchestrion&f=false
>> This link takes you to page 16, but the story actually starts as a front page item about how they thought the orchestrion was possibly making a comeback because of the movie soundtrack - and the resulting single and it's competitors - which actually seem to have come out first because Columbia omitted this from the soundtrack album!  Mercury had Jan August recreat the sound and Dot used Johnny Maddox.
>> 
>> Did this thing ever really make a splash?  Did Teresa Brewer or Crazy Otto ever make the proposed records?  I'm not finding any traces of it, but my internet searching skills aren't very polished, either.
>> 
>> And of course you can see/hear it on youtube, where somebody used a 45-DJ copy.
>> 
>> OK - I've heard it once, that was enough, so now my copy is for sale - cheap.
>> 
>> 
>> Rodger
>> 
>> For Best Results use Victor Needles.
>> 
>> .
>> _______________________________________________
>> 78-L mailing list
>> 78-L at klickitat.78online.com
>> http://klickitat.78online.com/mailman/listinfo/78-l
>> 
>> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> 78-L mailing list
> 78-L at klickitat.78online.com
> http://klickitat.78online.com/mailman/listinfo/78-l