{"id":1994,"date":"2005-08-01T12:18:36","date_gmt":"2005-08-01T17:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=739"},"modified":"2005-08-01T12:18:36","modified_gmt":"2005-08-01T17:18:36","slug":"more-cutting-edge-retrophilia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=1994","title":{"rendered":"More cutting-edge retrophilia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtleserviceslimited.org\/jukebox.htm\">Turtle Services<\/a> they&#8217;ve got a huge collection of old 78 RPM records converted to mp3 format.  There&#8217;s something strangely appealing about the idea of using an iPod to play a song originally released on a chunk of shellac.  Some digital restoration has been done to the songs, but they are still obviously in glorious monaural sound.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nI&#8217;m kind of sad that they don&#8217;t have some of the old novelty songs that my dad has in has his collection of 78&#8217;s Up North.  I still love the World War One classic &#8220;Oh How I Hate to Get Up In The Morning.&#8221;  They do have &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtleserviceslimited.org\/bananas.htm\">Yes, We Have No Bananas<\/a>,&#8221; and &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.turtleserviceslimited.org\/barneyg.htm\">Barney Google<\/a>,&#8221; so that&#8217;s a plus.<\/p>\n<p>Content wise be warned: the songs have some examples of the jaw-droppingly casual racism of their time.  Pretty much anything with &#8220;Dixie&#8221; in the title was probably popularized by blackface minstrel shows, but there&#8217;s plenty of swipes at the Irish (&#8220;If I Knock The &#8216;L&#8217; Out Of Kelly&#8221;) and the Germans too.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>UPDATE: There&#8217;s more!  If you want to get all the way back to the Edison Wax Cylinder days, check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tinfoil.com\/archive.htm\">Tinfoil.com<\/a>&#8216;s archive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at Turtle Services they&#8217;ve got a huge collection of old 78 RPM records converted to mp3 format. There&#8217;s something strangely appealing about the idea of using an iPod to play a song originally released on a chunk of shellac. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/?p=1994\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[24],"class_list":["post-1994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-personal-blather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quirkspace.com\/quirkblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}