[78-L] Song "The Broken Record"

[Cliff Friend, Harry Tobias & Boyd Bunch]

Dammit, he's finally caught on to us! OK, you genius, YOU write the lyric.

Taylor Bowie wrote:
> I've got another idea...something has been bothering me about a song lyric 
> ever since I first heard it 30 years ago.
> 
> You know that silly novelty tune from late '35 called "The Broken Record"? 
> There are several versions of it including a Mound City Blue Blowers on 
> Champion and a Freddy Martin on Br (my taste or lack thereof runs the 
> gamut).
> 
> OK...at one point the lyric makes mention about how,  while playing said 
> record of the title,  that "the needle stuck on the broken half,  and kept 
> playing, and saying...."
> 
> HOW is this possible?  I mean...how the Hell can ONE half of the record be 
> broken without the other half being just as broken?  "The broken half"...and 
> the other half is....intact?
> 
> This has always been one of the most irritating examples of lazy lyric 
> writing I could think of...help me achieve "closure" on this so I can move 
> on to,  and obsess about,  some other example of  musical/verbal idiocy!
> 
> Taylor
>