Websites

A couple of websites that are good to know about.

1) www.umo.com This seems to be Joe Budnick's website, a guy who is in the park a lot, playing and singing (see previous post). This website has a lot of great pictures and advice. I would love to see pictures of Peter Budd, Jimmy from the Bronx, and Curtis (the harmonica player).

2) www.honkingduck.com This was put together by a guy named James Reidy in Trumansburg, NY. He was nice enough to post a bunch of great old country songs from the 20's, 30's and 40's on his website. In his own words:

Contents
This site contains 701 recordings of 78 rpm records in Realaudio format. The music is early country music, string bands, dance calls, sacred harp, skits, ballads, popular songs, etc. The recordings were made in the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s. SourcesAll the 78s were from a collection formerly owned by famous banjo expert Jim Bollman. The collection was sold at auction in the 1980's. The approximate issue dates are based on the tables and techniques described in The Almost Complete 78 Rpm Record Dating Guide. by Steven C. Barr. The recording dates are as reported by Tyrone Settlemier in THE ONLINE DISCOGRAPHICAL PROJECT.

Sound Quality
The sound of these recordings is not great. Each tune started on a 'well loved' 78, then went through 2 generations of cassette tape, then MiniDisc, AIFF, and RealAudio. A few of the beginnings and endings got chopped off along the way. I didn't try to remove any scratches or pops. I encourage everyone to buy the excellent reissues of 78s that are available today. People who make these reissues spend hours on each cut to bring back the best sound possible. LyricsHonkingduck.com does not provide any song lyrics. Many of the songs here can be found at The Mudcat Cafe, either in the Digital Tradition lyric database hosted there, or in the Forum of lyrics, chords, and discussions of song variants and artists. To search the DT and Forum click here. To participate in the all-volunteer, ongoing project at Mudcat to post the lyrics of the songs at Honkingduck, please e-mail motormice@hotmail.com, using the word MUDCAT in the subject line.

Credits
Thanks to the great musicians who made all this music.Thanks to the early recording companies who captured and preserved this music.Thanks to Jim Bollman who once owned this collection of 78s, and who allowed Jacki to copy it .Thanks to Jacki Spector who recorded these 78s onto 23 cassette tapes in the mid-1980s, and let me copy her tapes and logbook.Thanks to Bob Jordan who helped me chop up the MiniDisc version into 746 separate tracks.Thanks to Annie Campbell who designed the honkingduck logo!MiniDisc is a very cool format.Thanks to Steven G. Barr for "The Almost Complete 78 RPM Record Dating Guide (II)".Thanks to Tyrone Settlemier for The Online Discographical Project.Thanks to Christian Roth for Coaster, a Freeware direct to disk recording utility.Thanks to the makers of NetPresenz, formerly Shareware.Thanks to the makers of Flash Renamer, a Freeware file name changer.Thanks to the makers of dBpowerAMP Music Converter, the RealAudio and AIFF Codecs from Daren Ford, and the Blade Codec from Tord Jansson. Thanks to Monte Ohrt for the excellent SmartyPaginateThanks to all the people who are working on Ogg Vorbis.

Donations
If you use this compilation please make me a donation in some denomination showing your appreciation!You can donate on or off line if you click here. CopyrightThis compilation web site, all the text, ID3 tags, filenames, and other information are © 2005 James Reidy, all rights reserved. The "sound recordings that were fixed before February 15, 1972" are "Preexisting Material" and are covered by other copyright laws (see http://www.copyright.gov ).
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