[78-L] Song "The Broken Record"

[yves francois]

    ... and I am so glad to see this post and i can thank the gentleman Friend, Tobias and Bunch for such a catchy tune. I LOVE the Mound City Blue Bowers version, almost desert island (even if it sounds like "dummy " lyrics, but heck, I also love "Tea For Two's" lyrics), will have to play it in the next day or so, BYW have they figured out who is singing on the MCBB record (I know that McKenzie is playing the comb on this one and Berigan and the wonderful and criminally under rated tenor sax player Forrest Crawford is also on it)...
All the best to the three of you (and to David for the channeling LOL) 
Yves Francois

--- On Sat, 1/24/09, Cliff Friend, Harry Tobias & Boyd Bunch <dlennick at sympatico.ca> wrote:

> From: Cliff Friend, Harry Tobias & Boyd Bunch <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Song "The Broken Record"
> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Date: Saturday, January 24, 2009, 10:55 PM

> 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
> > 
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