I know the last tune, it's "A Year from Today" written in July 1929, from Wurlitzer 165 roll 6658. The tune at the beginning of this video is "California Sunshine" written by Mary Earl, from the same roll. Also written in 1929. Most Wurlitzer band organ rolls contain 10 tunes per roll. Original rolls from Wurlitzer would normally contain tunes written in the year of release, mostly the ones with the 6600 numbering. All songs on Wurlitzer 165 roll 6658 are from 1929 and 1930: the roll was released for sale originally in 1930. Play-Rite Music Rolls re-cut and make available both original Wurlitzer and newly arranged Wurlitzer 165 rolls for anyone to purchase, usually costing about £90 per roll. Wurlitzer roll production never really died. Wurlitzer made rolls from the late 1800s up until 1945, then the T.R.T Mfg. Co continued until 1967, then Play-Rite Music Rolls continued from then onwards and still are selling newly arranged and re-cut original Wurlitzer 165 rolls today and hopefully always will be as Band Organs have long been since recognised to be the marvels that they have always been, then and even now.
@zakariafadel3688
9 ай бұрын
2:15-4:14 is that tune 'Memories Of France' from Roll 6649?
@CBF1
9 ай бұрын
@@zakariafadel3688 No, that's tune 4 from 6658, I can't remember it's title. A Year from Today(tune 5) plays after that waltz.
@zakariafadel3688
9 ай бұрын
@@CBF1 oh, okay. It sounds similar so that’s why I asked. Cheers for the info
@CBF1
9 ай бұрын
@@zakariafadel3688 I suppose it was arranged in the F note then. The waltz played from 2:15 - 4:14 is arranged in the F note. The Wurlitzer 165 roll frame isn't chromatic(meaning that it doesn't have every note in every manual/section of notes) and it only plays in 4 notes(C, D, F, G) and sometimes on rare occasions plays in B-Flat(as part of Mississippi Rag from 6855 plays in that note), A(from the ending of Among the Roses on Circus Parade Roll 6881), and E(from Andy Park's unreleased arrangement of Paul Simon and Arthur Garfunkel's Scarborough Fair). Wurlitzer arrangers often used the same notes over and over again in several of their tunes which were not so well arranged. However 6658 is the 165 equivalent of 150 roll 13194 and that is a well arranged roll.
@zakariafadel3688
9 ай бұрын
@@CBF1so, I’m assuming that 'Memories Of France' might be arranged in the F Note as an excerpt of the song sounded similar to 'Memories Of France' from Roll 6649
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