jabw_vintage/sources

Thank you to .....

A list of sources and contributors who made this website possible

this page first published by John Wright, 26 July 1997
last update 28 Dec 2007vintage@jabw.demon.co.uk

Music Knowledge

I have built up my knowledge of Vintage Popular Music over the last 25 years. During that time I have been particularly indebted to the 'Memory Lane' magazine and the discographies written by Brian Rust and Sandy Forbes, constantly referring to them and all the other magazines and books listed on my webpages.

This website has been made possible with the help of :

Compuserve 3.0.4 and Internet Explorer

for the first version 1997-99

Compuserve had an excellent publishing system and help forums, but the website size was limited to 5 Mb so I joined Demon (March '99) and we now have 20 Mb, which isn't much these days, but I've decideed to keep the Demoin site and store most of the website images and soundclips on one of my own domains

Instant HTML

'Instant HTML' by Steve Wright (no relation), Wrox Press Ltd. 1996. This book gave me a step-by-step guide to preparing a REAL web page, with pictures, tables, frames.

Pictures......

Some of the photo images used on this website were kindly donated by collectors on the Internet:

Al Bowlly, from Mike Hart and Ray Pallett (editor of Memory Lane)
Nipper from Helmut Weber.
King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band, Paul Whiteman, Red Nichols, Bix Beiderbecke, from Scott Alexander Red Hot Jazz Archive.

Most of the other images I produced myself, first using a DEXXA 4800 flatbed scanner, then a Visioneer 4800USB, and most recently an Epson Stylus Photo RX620

In particular I must mention:

Lew Stone:a career in music, compiled by Kenith Trodd, 1971, published by Mrs Joyce Stone, which was a source for illustrations and the quotes from Radio Times, Melody Maker, News Chronicle
The Chronicle Of Jazz, by Mervyn Cooke, 1997, published by Thames and Hudson for some photographs that appear or have appeared on this website.
The Hollywood Musical, by Clive Hirschhorn, published by Pyramid Books/Reed International for some photographs that appear or have appeared on this website.

Sounds......

My early soundclips were recorded using WinDat, which was ready-installed on my Packard Bell 9002 (purchased 1996), more recently I have simply used Windows Sound Recorder and Audacity software and my PC was built by a friend.
The music is mainly from my own 78 collection. Sometimes I used a wind-up Columbia and steel needles, stuck the microphone in under the turntable! With the new PC I've used a USB connector from my record decks. Most soundclips are about 30secs which take only a few seconds to open if you have a 2MHz processor.
The Jack Jackson and Sam Browne excerpts were recorded from the Saville CD CDSVL217, 'Hot Coffee' Rare Jazz Moments Played By British Dance Bands, released in 1990.

Record Fairs

Most of the infomation is form VJM Magazine

E-mail me if I have omitted a source or contributor to this website

You can visit my How Did I ...? page, on how I got started on the Internet

or read About Me, how I got into 78 rpm records.

thanks

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