{"id":11865,"date":"2014-12-24T11:38:50","date_gmt":"2014-12-24T15:38:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=11865"},"modified":"2014-12-24T15:16:42","modified_gmt":"2014-12-24T19:16:42","slug":"video-1940s-era-holiday-treat-from-tommy-dorsey-co-a-vintage-rig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/video-1940s-era-holiday-treat-from-tommy-dorsey-co-a-vintage-rig\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: 1940s-era holiday treat from Tommy Dorsey (c\/o a vintage rig)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Below you’ll find\u00a0a short video of my 1945 Scott Marine Radio Model SLR-M playing Tommy Dorsey and his Orchestra’s \u00a0jazz-infused version of “March of the Toys” from Victor Herbert’s holiday classic “Babes in Toyland.”<\/p>\n

It’s a little holiday time-travel I cooked up for you on this great vintage rig. I’m actually playing the song via an SStran Model AMT3000 AM transmitter<\/a> I built from a kit (more on that in a future post). The transmitter has been set to 1410 kHz, to which\u00a0the SLR-M is tuned.<\/p>\n

Though the microphone on my Flip Video camera makes the\u00a0sound in this little recording tinny (you’ll have to trust me that,\u00a0live, it’s remarkably\u00a0warm and rich), it does feel a bit like radio time-travel to hear a 1940s-era song played on a 1940s era-radio. This is just how WWII servicemen might have heard this music.<\/p>\n

For your holiday enjoyment: “March of the Toys” by Tommy Dorsey and his Orchestra<\/a>:<\/p>\n