Sunday, September 6, 2009

Bo Diddley in 1966 (plus How records are made narrated by Leonard Chess)

Bo Diddley & his band live on stage & recording in the Chess studios in 3 parts, includes footage of how records are made narrated by Leonard Chess.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vXeT5LoJ_s



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lTAJSZIVP0



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=087B_oWH0kQ





To learn more about record manufacturing:

http://www.archive.org/details/CommandP1942


How shellac records were produced and manufactured.
This movie is part of the collection: Prelinger Archives: http://www.archive.org/details/prelinger
Producer: Ganz (William J.) Co.
Sponsor: RCA Victor Corporation
Audio/Visual: Sd, B&W
Keywords: Media: Phonograph; Music
Creative Commons license: Public Domain

(Thanks to nimereht & rockndog_1999 at the staysick yahoo group http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/staysick/ for the referrals.)

3 comments:

  1. Wow, the Bo Diddley film is awesome! So that's how you make records. Bo backed by one dude and five wimmins. It certainly worked for him!
    Thanks for the link.

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  2. Hope ya'll got to see these Bo videos before Youtube pulled them over a copyright claim...

    Hopefully these clips will be formally released soon in some sort of full-length proper Bo Diddley documentary, cos they were hot!

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  3. Now available as- "Welk Goes Latin"
    on Vimeo here...

    http://vimeo.com/6537865

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