Found this old record while helping my mother-in law clean out the ba*****t. Has anyone ever seen this before? View attachment 5892780 View attachment 5892781
No, I've not seen that one, but I did have a drag racing sound stereo record when I was about 16 before we ever had a stereo system in the house. I would take it to my buddy John's house because he had a stereo with speakers at opposite ends of his living room. Standing in the middle of the room, I could close my eyes and hear the cars go by. It usually didn't last too long. John's mother had no tolerance for loud noises in her house.
@indianharry Hello, Nice find of one of the earliest hot rod/drag racing sounds albums ever produced. It may be the first one from 1959. If there is one drag racing sound LP Album that you need to have in your collection, this one tells you specifically who is racing who and what they are driving. 1959 was a good year and the producers were right on the ball with this recording. You know exactly who is racing, what they run and sometimes the speed and E.T. It is the best of all drag racing LP albums produced. Bar none… There have been plenty of albums, have great looking covers and the sounds are wonderful, since 1959. But, 99% of the say something like: “a 34 Ford racing a Model A in round two Altered cl***.” That is as good a description of who or what is sounding loud. Some don’t even go that far. A 57 Chevy vs a 69 Ford, etc. So, who made the specific sound? the Ford or Chevy? What motor, what cl***? Etc. The others over the years look good, sound ok, but unless your digital mind is full of information on who is running what, it is a mystery to just listen to those sounds. If you want drag racing sounds in the background of a garage as noise when working, some of those other albums are ok for noise. But, it would have been nice to label who was racing and what the racers drove. After a while, it gets like just a loud noise of sounds. A great fellow HAMB person sent me a different copy of a local So Cal drag racing recording that I have never seen and I am still going through the tracks to get a good recording to match my old 60s films. If and when I do, I will post them on my You Tube channel and the HAMB in a story. What got me interested is that a whole bunch of So Cal racers from Lion's Dragstrip made the trip back to Detroit for the U.S. Nationals that Septemeber. I had taken 16mm color films of most of the top racers during the Spring and Summer and they just happen to trailer their hot rods/dragsters across country for the races. JR. THOMPSON 41 STUDEBAKER Jnaki Since you have found the LP album, you have one historic album. Ours is still in our few albums we still have just sitting in our stereo cabinet. We gave away our whole collection of old LP albums to our son and granddaughter’s collection of records. Their display is a tall wall to wall shelving with all of their records old and new, plus our old original 60s-70s LP albums. We no longer listened to those albums in the digital age, so, they needed a good home other than a lot of boxes in the garage. Note: By 1959, we had already started our drag racing at Lion’s Dragstrip and were looking into the next level of racing participation. So, it comes as no surprise that we took a trek to Wallich’s Music City in Lakewood to buy the latest LP album on Hot Rods and Drag Racing In Stereo. It was in December of 1959 and the location was perfect. Wallich’s had self-service record racks, wrapping products in plastic and installing listening booths where customers could sample records before buying. Sitting in a sound proof room with headphones on and listening to our favorite So Cal racers against the best from all over the USA was fun and a new thing for us. Now, we could listen to the sounds of So Cal racers and match them with our films during our teenage hang out film viewing get togethers. We weren't the only ones to buy this record of drag racing sounds, but at the time, it was one of the first and best recordings that actually told the listeners, who was running against the other. It truly was a listening paradise for the first time. It was difficult to do as the stereo player was in the other room, and the living room was where the screen and projector was set up. Of course, it was never on the exact track or film to coordinate the sounds with the films. But, we all hollered and hooted when a local racer was shown and the sound was the exact racer, just one month later in a different location, namely Detroit, Michigan. Here is a sample of the Kenny Lindley/Don Hampton streamlined FED dragster on film and the exact sound from the tracks of the Hot Rods and Dragsters In Stereo LP album. This coordination was done digitally after I had the LP digitized and my films were also digitized to make coordination editing easier. Kenny Lindley/Don Hampton at Lion’s Dragstrip, Summer of 1959. The sound edited from September Labor Day Championships in 1959, only a few weeks later. I was so happy with the results that I jumped into the other listings and found the coordinated films to go with the sounds. The whole project was rounding out the edited sound added to the Sidewinder film clips to make a nice showcase for the 1959 version of the Joe Mailliard Speed Shop/Paul Nicolini Design “Sidewinder” rear engine race car from Long Beach. The clips were of racing at Lion’s Dragstrip during the Summer of 1959. The sound, of course was from Detroit in 1959. Go to the J NAKI “You Tube Channel” to view the rest of the SOUND collection of this 1959 US Nationals at Detroit with So Cal racers. If you have a smart TV with streaming channels, get the You Tube Channel. Then you can see these old films in a larger, almost life-size viewing with your quality sound apparatus and stereo. It is much better on a larger screen than on a phone or even a 17 inch laptop. Note 2: For some reason, some of the old HAMB posts with my films have now had adverti*****ts added by mistake from someone's glitch. The original ones on the J NAKI You Tube channel do not have adverti*****ts. Check out all of the "sound" ones from this particular 1959 recorded album on the Channel. When one views it on a big screen TV with quality sound, the recorded sound from the old 1959 Detroit was done well and the sound over the large screen TV comes out blasting. Even my wife, from the kitchen/dining area says… “that sounds really cool…” Yes! YRMV
Holy **** Mark! I am getting bored with just saying you have the coolest ****! The ***les on some of those albums cracked me up!
My buddy had that setup at his house and his pet dog would go nuts trying to chase the cars as they went past his ears.
Hello, We all have different reasons for having a bevy of sounds. I use them to try and bring some actual sounds of the racers I filmed a long time ago. Some like to have albums to display and others listen as it is different and adds a little ****e to a silent film that was the norm in 1957-64. This Winternationals sound LP is an example. The sounds are really good, but unless you have a round by round of each elimination race or the finals as listed, it is just sounds from the cl*** posted. We would all like to hear Jack Williams and Danny Ongais and even Ronnie Sox in his “stock” car. But, we just have to guess as to which sound comes from which racer in the recordings . The odd thing is, the announcer is more important than the sounds, so there is that aspect of these albums. It would have been nice to take the time to list the racers and the track so we all could see(in our minds) and hear the exact track of the race or races. But, also tone down the babble from the announcer over or through the power drag race sounds. Jnaki The recorded sounds are nice as recorded sounds. But, after one just recorded sounds album is heard, the following ones sound the same, babble… Perhaps a little better, as the sound recording got better in the following years of recording devices. But, we are all at a question mark as to who was racing and what they had to race in the events per listed year. One has to find a film of the event, the Drag News weekly paper that shows the actual event in print and follow the results and round by round writings. Great! Even when an actual event film is found, unless you can coordinate the sound and the racer, it is difficult to enjoy those sounds… Unless of course, you are a fanatic about clear sounds and information, in addition to having a sound mixing studio to isolate the drag racing sound from all else. Now, that would be fun, but costly. Note: This whole series has some great sounds, but the information babble by the announcer ruins it for anyone trying for a real staging, final prep and blasting, starting line to finish sounds coming from the racers. Enjoy what you like, but the clear drag racing sounds from a variety of named racers in the original post of “Hot Rod And Dragsters In Stereo” by @indianharry has the showcase as clear as any on the old/new market for drag racing sounds. It is a "must have" for all collectors/enthusiasts, as it is one of the earliest, if not the earliest from a 1959 National Championship event...YRMV
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