[78-L] The Talking Machine

[David Lennick]

Michael Shoshani wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 16:05 +0000, Royal Pemberton wrote:
>> That Department of the Inferior production reminds me of something I
>> heard on a radio station a few months back that tried to give a
>> synopsis of the story of Eldridge Johnson.  I think it was called
>> 'That's how it was' or such like.  I can't remember anywhere near all
>> the details of what they got wrong (I lost count!) but I'll never
>> forget the guy pronouncing a name to sound like 'Emily Berleaner'!
> 
> At the late lamented Midwest Phonograph Museum in Martinsville, Indiana,
> the late lamented Dr. Drake and his staff called him 'Emily
> BURR-linner'.
> 
> In hindsight, he probably should have stuck with the original spelling
> of his name. 'Emil' is difficult to mispronounce, but I've heard his
> reworked-for-America name pronounced 'E-mile' more than once.
> 
> MS
> 
Or, as I mentioned previously, "E-mail" by Christopher on The Sopranos (just 
before he whacked the kid).

dl