Word: victrola
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Windsor shows his heart when he writes this way. As for his head, he says, "The Lord must have vaccinated me with a Victrola needle. You won't never get me to stop talking...
...World War I was seven years past, the Russian Revolution was eight years old, and the music on my grandmother's wind-up Victrola was Yes, We Have No Bananas. Unaware of history's higher significance, I slumbered through the bliss of in fancy, feeling no impulse whatever to make some thing of myself." He did, eventually. Baker's elegantly literate humor column for the New York Times won the Pulitzer Prize for commentary in 1979. Yet Baker, born into an age when boys still dreamed of be coming President, refused to dream of becoming anything...
Though Kreisler plays his other pieces faster, with more articulation, and with less shmaltz than Mintz, the latter's Liebesleid--slow and sorrowful--has more appeal. On RCA Victrola's 1968 release of Kreisler "Souvenirs," recorded in the 1920s, the composer plays the piece with slides and portamentos at every place imaginable. Mintz plays important notes with vibrato and spirit without sliding. Directors might consider using the piece for a romantic movie scene. The choice of lovers will be irrelevant; the mood of the scene--an intense, despairing good-bye--will be the same...
...detail what was in the light of the lodge windows, all ablaze everywhere, as if great crowds were inside. I knew there were no crowds. The wind amplified in gusts the strains of a dance band. When the song was over, it began again. It was a Victrola record of a tune I recognized, Exactly Like...
That poor mutt on the RCA label. For half a century he has been sitting by the victrola, one ear cocked to the horn, checking out the sounds with the same expression on his earnest face, as if he expected the machine to throw him a bone. He has weathered considerable changes: shellac to plastic; hand cranks to separate components; 78 to 45 to 33; mono to stereo and, most recently, a skirmish with quad. There is a revolutionary change coming up, however, that bids fair to wag his tail and pin his floppy ears back...