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.)
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!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the link.
Hope ya'll got to see these Bo videos before Youtube pulled them over a copyright claim...
ReplyDeleteHopefully these clips will be formally released soon in some sort of full-length proper Bo Diddley documentary, cos they were hot!
Now available as- "Welk Goes Latin"
ReplyDeleteon Vimeo here...
http://vimeo.com/6537865