Old Music And a Tractor

rusty6 · Jan 6, 2020

Just to keep it tractor related I put in a picture of my uncle's DC3 and Farmall M in this video. My uncles liked their music and I'm lucky to have some of it
saved on old audio cassettes. Transferring some of it to digital now because who knows how long the old recording tape will survive. Or how long before the
cassette player eats the tape. This song is a re-recorded copy of an original they did in 1955. I just attached it to a bunch of photos from the old family
albums.
Heres a little Ford that didn't make it to the video.

Old Country Music

Glen SW Wi · Jan 6, 2020

Very good.

Stoneman44 · Jan 6, 2020

Was there not a John Deere in there also? Is that the AR you still have?

Very neat family heirloom you've created her, Rusty. What a treasure to have!

Always enjoy your posts!

Thank you for sharing.

BillinCentralMO · Jan 6, 2020

Well done. Enjoyed seeing it.

JK-NY · Jan 6, 2020

I enjoyed both the music and the pictures. Any chance you would have any more?

Absent Minded Farmer · Jan 6, 2020

That's good stuff! Reminds me of something I'd hear from the Lomax archive. Looking forward to more.

Mike

9001ron · Jan 6, 2020

21 kids in the one pic --- must be several families ?

John in Mich · Jan 6, 2020

Neat! I did not try to add music to the flash drives that I made for 2018 Christmas to give to nieces, nephews and grandchildren. I had purchased a Kodak Scanza, a small projection box to transfer photos and negatives into digital photos. My wife and I went through all of her mother's photos and negatives and transfered them. Many negatives had aged badly, turning all red. Many photos did also. We have found the old photos not printed on Kodak paper had turned red.
We were going through some of my mother's albums last week and found similar red photos and also some of our albums and 50 year old photos. We are trying to do some clean out of our 54 years of "stuff" and need to digitize these photos as well.
One problem with the Kodak Scanza is photo or negative size limitation. I had to do a lot of cutting.
I know that there are companies that do this stuff but rather pricey.

55 50 Ron · Jan 6, 2020

Archived photos and country music. Rusty, I love it. Two of my favorites. Wish I could sing. I do play a bit of guitar, mandolin, bass and pedal steel, but haven't recorded any as it's not that good!!

M Nut · Jan 6, 2020

Thanks for posting, enjoyed both the music and pictures.

rusty6 · Jan 6, 2020

(quoted from post at 13:47:58 01/06/20)
Was there not a John Deere in there also? Is that the AR you still have?

Yes, I forgot the uncle's AR John Deere did appear in the video. Yes, I have quite a bit more audio like that. That particular tune was just one off a double sided cassette tape recorded in the winter of 55-56 at least 3 different homes. There are songs on it that I'd never heard before and quite well done for self taught amateurs. I doubt any of them ever read a musical note. Uncle Roy could play a guitar, banjo, and violin. He made a bit playing at school house dances in the 40s and 50s. It was a New Year's day tradition here that the uncles and my mother would get out the guitar and banjo for some music and singing. Recorded on an open mike it was not the greatest quality.
I'll see if I can put another one together.

37chief · Jan 6, 2020

That was good, I enjoyed it. Stan

DMartin9N-2N · Jan 6, 2020

Good evening: Great video showing how things used to be! I noted the pic with people on stairs (maybe back door of house?) and the building had no porch or landing; when coming out, just open the door and you were down the steps right now!!

I wish I could understand the words of the song better, it seems to be classic country singing with guitar, but my computer and my hearing aids do not cooperate. Oh well.... I still liked the pics. Thanks for sharing.

Dennis M. in W. Tenn.

gblj · Jan 6, 2020

Nice video Rusty, I ran across 30 to 40 old cassette tapes I had from years ago and would like to transfer them to USB or a SD card, can you tell me how your doing that, I been looking on Amazon at a few things.

rusty6 · Jan 6, 2020

(quoted from post at 20:50:30 01/06/20) Nice video Rusty, I ran across 30 to 40 old cassette tapes I had from years ago and would like to transfer them to USB or a SD card, can you tell me how your doing that, I been looking on Amazon at a few things.

I downloaded a free program called Audacity to my laptop and that is what I use to record the audio cassettes. Just plug in suitable cord from the cassette deck to the microphone plug on my laptop and hit play on the player and record on the Audacity program. Save (export) when done and thats it.

rusty6 · Jan 6, 2020

(quoted from post at 20:38:45 01/06/20)

I wish I could understand the words of the song better, it seems to be classic country singing with guitar, but my computer and my hearing aids do not cooperate.
Oh well.... I still liked the pics. Thanks for sharing.

Dennis M. in W. Tenn.

arl Smith lyrics[/url]

gblj · Jan 7, 2020

Thank you, I heard of that program I will check into it.

55 50 Ron · Jan 7, 2020

rusty6,

Thanks for posting those lyrics. I'm a big fan of Carl Smith. There are many places on the "web" to find lyrics and the music scores. Sure wish the scores were free like the lyrics are. I'm bookmarking the site you posted from as it looks like a good one.

I'm a "sort-of" collector of music. I have well over 100 of the old 33 1/3 RPM LP records and over 200 cassettes and 200 CDs that are professionally recorded. In "recent" years I've been recording (the group I play with) on a Zoom handheld recorder that uses SD cards as the recording medium. The recording industry has sure come a long way in technical advancements.

55 50 Ron · Jan 7, 2020

That's a good way to do it. Guess I'm a bit old fashioned as I transfer cassettes to an SD card using my Zoom recorder. Of course the Zoom recorder and SD cards aren't free !! I'm old enough that I prefer "hard copies".

jddrawbar · Jan 7, 2020

Priceless! Again, thanks for posting......noticed the closed center tires on the Ford & Case, best tire there ever was for mud.

rusty6 · Jan 7, 2020

(quoted from post at 07:55:44 01/07/20) That's a good way to do it. Guess I'm a bit old fashioned as I transfer cassettes to an SD card using my Zoom recorder. Of course the Zoom recorder and SD cards aren't free !! I'm old enough that I prefer "hard copies".

Ron I have no knowledge of the zoom recorder but these wav files I create can be transferred to any flash drive or external hard drive for easy transport and storage. I guess I could save them on an sd card as well.
I also have what looks like half a truck load of old vinyl lp records from the seventies, sixties, etc. Even a few of the old hard plastic 78 rpm records. From a family member's collection and mostly stuff I'll never listen to. Why am I saving it?

55 50 Ron · Jan 7, 2020

My dad had those style rear tires on a Farmall M and those style front tires (Firestone Guide-Grip) on a W-30.

dr sportster · Jan 7, 2020

Well done , really nice !

unc · Jan 7, 2020

I really enjoyed this video.
I had a great-uncle-by-marriage who was a renowned fiddler. I wish someone had recorded him. He would always play "Road to the Isles" and "Cock of the North".
He and my uncle Ralph dairy farmed together with an AC CA and a D-15. I rode many miles on the fender of the D-15. unc

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