Roaring 20s.: Piccadilly Players dir. Mel Morris - Take Your Tomorrow, 1928

Picadilly Players Dir. Mel Morris - Take Your Tomorrow (And Give Me Today) Fox-Trot (Andy Razaf-J.C.Johnson) with Singing, Edison 1928 (USA)
NOTE: When in the mid-1927, mass electrical recordings began in most of the American recording companies, Edison was the last major record producer to adopt it, over two years after Victor Records, Columbia Records, and Brunswick Records had converted from acoustical recording. The lateral-cut thin “needle type” Edison records were introduced in August of 1929 but although their audio quality was excellent this concession to commercial reality came too late to prevent the demise of the Edison Phonograph and Records Company just one day before the 1929 stock market crash. In 1928-29 bandleader Mel Morris was contracted to produce the hit recordings of the day and created a series of fabulous dance sides still cut vertically and then laterally. His band Piccadilly Players seems to have been the label name of a set of musicians who formed a studio band at the time of Edison's demise.

[@1920sfan1]

Sadly Mel Morris' Piccadilly Players are vastly underrated since they were short-lived and recorded for Edison. But again, this side is proving their great talent. Thanks so much for sharing!

[@jolantabaranowska3772]

Witam super orkiestra świetna melodia pozdrawiam ❤❤

[@240252]

Dziękuję i również pozdrawiam. Szczęśliwego Nowego Roku!

[@IvoBożęta]

There's nothing better like a good mood first thing in the morning.

[@240252]

Yeah, I thought it might be a nice start to the day for many visitors :-)

[@IvoBożęta]

And you thought very well.

[@scottferguson325]

Beautiful Fox-trot and video, Great Orchestra with a very nice rhythm and choir and the magical atmosphere of unforgettable Roaring Twenties 👍🙏🙋‍♂️🤗🎄🪕🌺🎶💯✨

[@240252]

It's one of the Edison's dance vertical recordings from the time of the company''s decline, when Edison tried to catch up with the times and hired great orchestras. Regards!

[@adamzajac4042]

Świetna orkiestra . Świetna piosenka. Lubię muzykę lat dwudziestych i trzydziestych poprzedniego wieku .

[@IvoBożęta]

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[@jourwalis-8875]

Very nice! And a very long playing 78! 3,51 in 1928. How was this possible?

[@240252]

The thick Edison Discs recorded the sound vertically in the groove at a rate of 150 grooves-per-inch (GPI) rather than the typical laterally-cut groove of around 100 GPI, which gave 10-inch (250 mm). It gave Edison discs a longer playing time (up to five minutes).

[@jourwalis-8875]

@@240252 OK! Thank you! But what modern pickup do you use today that can play these vertical grooves?

[@j.lietka9406]

Wonder if this song is on an Edison Cylinder!

[@240252]

Edison stopped producing cylinders around 1908 and began producing Amberole Records. At that time this piece was not yet available, so it is definitely not on the cylinders.