The tunes are marvelous but the way Army bands have played them in the past has made them sound like an old-fashioned victrola which needed to be wound up.
From three-year-olds he got reactions such as "I like my horsy record I put it on the victrola .
A friend remembers that when Crane was drunk, dancing alone to the victrola that seemed to accompany him everywhere, he had "absolute abandon and, at the same time, a certain .
From Our Homepage A Victrola record player, circa early-1900s, and costumed re-enactors were part of a celebration Sunday of the Sherwood Island State Park centennial. Photo: Jarret Liotta
Aug. 26, 2013 - Westport News
BB King in Biloxi Sun Herald The most worthwhile thing about Aunt Mima's place was her crank-up Victrola, a machine that changed my life,writes BB King, Itta Bena's King of the Blues. "Aunt Mima taught me to gently put on the platter, set down the needle, and watch...
Carl Kasell in Barre Montpelier Times Argus My grandmother had a wind-up Victrola and about two records,Kasell said. "I'd sit there as a kid and play those things over and over again like I was a deejay."