Sounds

Sights and Sounds

Aunt Ruby’s Sweet Jazz Babies is working with preservationists from the Library of Congress to digitize the various analog recordings and archived visual images of their performances. Once this process yields results, this web page will be updated accordingly. The Babies are hopeful that the older photographs and recordings from the late nineteenth and early twentieth century can be restored after all of these years in secrete nitrogen storage with the Declaration of Independence.

If you have recordings/images of the Babies that you would like to share, please contact us (e-mail). The Babies are still searching for the lost magnetic tape recording made by Professor Cordi during their travels with the French Underground during World War II. Please check back again for revisions to this page.

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Free Video Files of the Babies

The video files shown below depict two songs performed by the Babies for the Fox 7 Morning News Program on December 3, 2007, in Austin, Texas. We invite you to visit our friends at the Fox 7 Morning News Program on www.myfoxaustin.com for more information. We hope you will enjoy the video files of the Babies performing “Sugar” and “When the Little Red Roses Get the Blues for You”. These videos are stored on the Babies YouTube Forum and you will need increased internet bandwidth to view the videos. Please click your mouse on the video image to watch it on your computer. Our thanks to Cora Lee and Vernon Young of Spokane, Washington for providing these videos to the Babies Historical Archive.

"Sugar"

"When the Little Red Roses Get the Blues for You"

The video files shown below depict five songs performed by the Babies for the Austin Traditional Jazz Society on April 20, 2008, in Austin, Texas. These videos feature Tartan Purry - Clarinet, King Crazy Oliver Steck - Trumpet, Mark "Speedy" Gonzales - Trombone, General Ryan J. Gould - String Bass, Professor Joseph Cordi - Piano, and Frank Lee Devine - Guitar. The Babies extend their thanks to Mr. Monte Price of Austin, Texas for provding these videos to the Babies Historical Archive.

"Louise"

"All My Life"

"When the Red Red Robin Comes Bob Bob Bobbin' Along"

"I Can't Give You Anything But Love"

"Have You Ever Been In Heaven"

Free Sound Files of the Babies

The sound files shown below contain excerpts of songs featuring various Babies for your enjoyment. These are rare recorded song excerpts from various public performances of Aunt Ruby’s Sweet Jazz Babies. Please right click the file name and select the “Save As” option to download the file to your computer.

File Name	Approximate File Size (KB)	Description
Russian Lullaby, Version 1	279	The Babies tease one of their Austin area musical friends who visited the Babies during this recording, made during a swing dance competition in Austin, Texas, in late December, 2003.
When the Red Red Robbin Comes Bob Bob Bobbing Along	440	General Ryan Gould leads the singing during this recording, which was made in early 1998 during Al Jolson’s annual birthday celebration on Lake Travis, outside of Austin, Texas.
If I Had You	1500	Many couples were observed to be snuggling during the Babies enchanting rendition of this classic ballad in the parlour of Ross’ Old Austin Café in mid February, 2005.
Someone’s Rocking My Dreamboat, Version 1	504	Professor Cordi is featured on this recording made at Camille’s Antique Boutique, near Sioux Falls, South Dakota, in June 1982. The Babies enjoyed playing in Camille’s converted cold war era missle silo.
When I Take My Sugar to Tea	326	This rousing number features King Crazy Oliver Steck and displays a sample of the Babies comraderie and the energy which can spontaneously ignite during a Babies performance.
Russian Lullaby, Version 2	283	This recording of General Gould has become required learning of all Double Bass students at Julliard and the Manhattan School of Music. It was made at the Waldorf Historia Hotel in New York, March, 1949, three days after the Babies famed performance of the Candy Cane Airplane Parade musical.
Bye Bye Blackbird	400	This recording was made in early 2001 during the Babies last performance in the Grand Ballroom of Washingtonian Hotel immediately prior to its demolition. In the background, one can hear the well wishers bidding farewell to this grand old Victorian era landmark.
Someone’s Rocking My Dreamboat, Version 2	499	While not entirely understood, it has been well documented through scientific research that Tartan Purry can play the clarinet such to calm all savage beasts. It is rumoured that this recording, when played to feeding sharks inhabiting the warm waters off the coast of Freeport, Texas, in August, 1972, allowed researchers to approach, capture, and dissect wild sharks in the open ocean without being attacked.