[78-L] turnover instructions

simmonssomer simmonssomer at comcast.net
Wed Nov 5 04:54:17 PST 2008


We musn't forget Annette Hanshaw with her cue that it was time to turn.
She said...."That's All"

Al S.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Martin Fenton" <mafenton at talktalk.net>
To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2008 6:36 AM
Subject: Re: [78-L] turnover instructions


> One of Stanley Lupino's Decca 78s ends with an uncredited voice saying
> something like, "Are we going to meet this girl?" and Lupino replying,
> "Yes, she's on the other side of the record."
>
> One of the Goons 78s ends with Bluebottle escaping onto the other side
> through the hole in the middle.
>
> (From the LP era, Tony Hancock instructs the listener to turn the record
> over in "Pieces of Hancock" (and at the end of side 2 tells the listener
> to remove the stylus, followed by a long pause, after which he says,
> "There's no more." Meanwhile, "A Song For You" by The Carpenters closes
> side 1 with an elaborate choral piece whose lyrics are "We'll be right
> back after we've gone to the bathroom." This scared the living daylights
> out of me when I first heard it as an infant, which might have had as
> much to do with the ghostly end-of-side distortion on my parents'
> worn-to-death copy as anything else.)
>
> Pardon my being non-specific about the 78s. I don't have the actual
> records to hand at the moment, and can't remember which ones the above
> quotes appear on.
>
> -- 
> Mart.
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