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Request for a song that Larry Glick used to play.

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samw54

Greetings from Toronto Canada. As a brief introduction, my name is Sam Ward. I was born in Norwood Mass. and at age seven, the family moved to East Walpole. I certainly have wonderful memories of listening to both Bruce Bradley and Dick Summer on WBZ, and to Fenway (Ed Heider) in the morning and Arnie Woo-woo Ginsburg at night with his Night Train Show on WMEX which I had real trouble picking up on my cheap Six transistor radio.

In 1965 we moved to Burlington Vermont, but since I am totally blind, I stayed in the Boston area since I was attending the Perkins School for the blind in Watertown. I remained there until the beginning of my junior year of high school. I finished my high school education in Hartford Connecticut.

I have a website in which I make all kinds of oldies from many genres of music available to collectors, from the dawn of recorded sound in the 1890's through the beginning of the 20th century, the jazz of the twenties, the big band era of the thirties and forties, the R&B, doo-wop and rock and roll of the fifties and the oldies of the sixties through the eighties. The site is called
Audioldies
and naturally the site has a
contact form
where people can get in touch with me if they are looking for an obscure song. With my network of collectors, I can usually find most of the songs that folks request.

Today, another person that attended Perkins contacted me and requested a very unusual musical selection. I'm sure that many of you remember listening to Larry Glick overnight on WBZ. One of the songs that he used to play frequently on his shows was called The German Marching Song. I am sorry, but I don't know who the song was recorded by, but a little research on the net revealed that the proper title of this song is Der Krauwinkler Landstrum. I am just wondering if anyone on this forum happens to have this song. If you do, I would really appreciate it if you could contact me, and I know that the other person looking for this song would really appreciate an mp3 copy of this song as well. Thanks for your help in advance.

Sam Ward

Audioldies Webmaster
 
A quick web search turns up a song (or sheet music for it) with that title only the "u" is an "h" in the first word. It should be "Der Krahwinkler Landstrum". Haven't turned up an mp3 file for it but it may be out there somewhere.
 
My God! Yup, that's it, probably a different version but apart from being in stereo it sounds pretty bang on. By the way, thanks for the correction in the title. This forum is truly awesome. Thanks again.

Sam
 
Hey faderraider, your wish is my command my friend. The song was first recorded in 1962, by Sonny Giannotta with Phil Camarata and Tommy Cardinale. Most people don't realize this, but there were actually two different versions of this record released. When the record was originally released, it ended up being about a minute longer than the re-released version. So, you can download the full version of this novelty record from 1962, The Last Blast Of The Blasted Bugler
right here
or if you prefer, you can
stream it right here.

Now, if you'd like to compare the shorter version with the full version and it was probably the short version that Larry Glick played on his shows on WBZ, you can
download it right here
or
stream it right here.

I hope you all enjoy both versions of this novelty record and faderraider, thanks for your request.

Sam, Audioldies Webmaster
 
samw54 said:
but since I am totally blind, I stayed in the Boston area since I was attending the Perkins School for the blind in Watertown.
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What is your secret to being such a perfect typist? I am sighted but I have never been able to learn touch typing. Even though I can see the keys, I still make plenty of mistakes when I type. I proofread and correct my posts before I hit "send," but usually, there are still some errors that I never seem to catch until after the system won't allow any more changes. I've read several of your posts and I have yet to find a single typo! I am in awe.
 
In my own case, having learned typing at age nine or so, I tend to be able to find the keys easily without looking, from experience--even in low light I can do okay. samw54 does indeed do an
excellent job... but I think there's software he could use, or may be using already, something like "Dragon Naturally Speaking"
which I've heard advertised--you speak and what you say gets printed. ("Just say words and watch them appear on your computer screen", says the site.) I remember a TV ad for Microsoft where they had a man explain that he was able to develop software for the blind-- and he was blind
himself.

We know of people who are "legally blind" also (Steve Leveille for example, as well as a friend
of mine who sadly just passed on at age 55). Such technologies could help them as well.
 
Well, what can I say? You guys sure know how to make a guy feel good about himself which is something that I'm frankly not really used to. As a totally blind person, I feel that it's extremely important to make the best writing impression possible when I'm communicating with people and especially when I'm writing up resumes and cover letters. I guess that's the perfectionist side of me and DanStrassberg, it's heart warming to observe that my efforts are worth it and that you've noticed my typing accuracy along the way but believe me, you're much too kind here. Just like anyone else, I have made my share of mistakes, and just like you, sometimes I haven't noticed them until it was too late to edit them and make any further corrections. You'd have a heck of a time though DanStrassberg, using this keyboard because from what I've been told, I've used this keyboard so much and for so long, (April of 2003 to be exact) that most of the letters are worn right off these keys. So only a touch typist who didn't need to look at the letters would find this keyboard functional for them.

Now, raccoonradio, you are both correct, and incorrect with your information about certain software available for blind people. You mentioned "Dragon Naturally Speaking"
and you thought it was possible that I might be using that program to create these posts. Not a chance! Now, if you want to talk about typing errors, that Dragon software program that you mentioned would absolutely load my messages with them. First of all, the Dragon program is NOT designed for the blind, but rather for people who can't move their hands or whose fingers are locked together, in other words, people who physically can't type on a keyboard. Dragon is, well.... let's just say that it's better than nothing but not by much! It's speech recognition only does a half ass job, and it is by no means the answer for those who are unable to type on their own. It takes a tremendous amount of tweaking and re-tweaking to get it to even recognize what a specific person is saying even 70 or 80% of the time, and the English language has so many words like there, their, and they're, and to, too and two that it would be impossible for the program to figure out which word a person wanted to type in that case. Remember, this program can't think. It does not have artificial intelligence by any means. So, at best, the program would write some of the words correctly but a tremendous amount of further editing would have to be done with Dragon to make an even passably typed document. It is by no means what it's cracked up to be so no, I definitely do NOT use Dragon to type my messages here. But you're right raccoonradio, touch typing is how I learned to type since I cannot see the letters on the keys, although there are little dots on both the F and the J keys which certainly give me a landmark and help me make sure that my fingers are always on the right keys. I didn't start typing quite as early as you. I started at about age fourteen and typing by touch is the way I do it. Anyway, I hope this answers some of your questions. Oh, one of the questions I sometimes also get asked is if my screen reader can actually describe pictures for me, and the answer is absolutely not. That would require artificial intelligence far above what even the best computers have these days. It might happen eventually but I think that a screen reader that could actually describe a picture is still many years away.

Sam
 
The Glicknick Song

Does anybody have a copy of "The Glicknick Song" that Laryy used to play on the show? Please email me at [email protected] to let me know how I can get a good copy of it! Thanks!
 
I hope you can get in touch with Larry Glick's producer, Kenny Meyer, who is also sightless. Think he went to Perkins as well.
samw54 said:
Greetings from Toronto Canada. As a brief introduction, my name is Sam Ward. I was born in Norwood Mass. and at age seven, the family moved to East Walpole. I certainly have wonderful memories of listening to both Bruce Bradley and Dick Summer on WBZ, and to Fenway (Ed Heider) in the morning and Arnie Woo-woo Ginsburg at night with his Night Train Show on WMEX which I had real trouble picking up on my cheap Six transistor radio.

In 1965 we moved to Burlington Vermont, but since I am totally blind, I stayed in the Boston area since I was attending the Perkins School for the blind in Watertown. I remained there until the beginning of my junior year of high school. I finished my high school education in Hartford Connecticut.

I have a website in which I make all kinds of oldies from many genres of music available to collectors, from the dawn of recorded sound in the 1890's through the beginning of the 20th century, the jazz of the twenties, the big band era of the thirties and forties, the R&B, doo-wop and rock and roll of the fifties and the oldies of the sixties through the eighties. The site is called
Audioldies
and naturally the site has a
contact form
where people can get in touch with me if they are looking for an obscure song. With my network of collectors, I can usually find most of the songs that folks request.

Today, another person that attended Perkins contacted me and requested a very unusual musical selection. I'm sure that many of you remember listening to Larry Glick overnight on WBZ. One of the songs that he used to play frequently on his shows was called The German Marching Song. I am sorry, but I don't know who the song was recorded by, but a little research on the net revealed that the proper title of this song is Der Krauwinkler Landstrum. I am just wondering if anyone on this forum happens to have this song. If you do, I would really appreciate it if you could contact me, and I know that the other person looking for this song would really appreciate an mp3 copy of this song as well. Thanks for your help in advance.

Sam Ward

Audioldies Webmaster
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