Re: [Harp-L] Grandpa's music

[Roger A Gonzales <gonz1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

David,

Its great to see someone give their music history and heritage the recognition it deserves.  
With me it was my Dad.  He brought me up on Big Band, Louis Prima, Trio Los Panchos and 
Sinatra with all those great Nelson Riddle arrangements.  He was a singer.  If you still have 
your grandpa around, even better, what a treat and honor to be able to play music with him, 
so cool.
Thanks

regards,
Roger Gonzales
Fresno, CA.

   

----- Original Message -----
From: David Payne <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Monday, December 24, 2007 2:18 am
Subject: [Harp-L] Grandpa's music
To: Harp L Harp L <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>

> I posted on here a few weeks ago about a myspace page I made for my 
> grandpa,which had a track of him playing mandolin recorded 
> recently. My dad comes forward with these two tracks Grandpa 
> recorded in 1950 on a 78 record, he's playing guitar and singing "I 
> Love You a Thousand Ways" and "The Day We First Met" My 
> grandparents had the 78 in the basement for years, it was warped 
> all to pieces, the needle would get airborne a couple times each 
> revolution, so dad pressed it back into shape with some boards and 
> C clamps. The record was so dirty and worn, it still wouldn't play, 
> he cleaned on it for a few days, wore out several crayons with the 
> old crayon-record trick, had to attach 8 quarters to the 78 needle 
> to keep it in the groove, then he used a computer program to take 
> out the crackle spikes one at a time. 
>  One plus for grandpa on this, is he always said his company was 
> put in for a citation for a pretty hard battle they fought in Korea 
> in 1953 and was upset they never got it. In looking for background, 
> I came across a Presidential Unit Citation from President 
> Eisenhower for his company. I apologized to grandpa on behalf of 
> Eisenhower for the 54-year delay in notification.;)
>   
>  Grandpa is a dominating figure, he's the reason all the men in my 
> family play music. A lot of people can remember their grandpa 
> playing music, but not many have tracks of their grandpa playing 
> when he was 20 years old, so I'm pretty excited about it. 
>  The tracks and the citation are on the page, 
> www.myspace.com/hcecilpayne 
>   
>  Dave
>   
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