[78-L] Song "The Broken Record"

[yves francois]

Taylor
I totally agree, it's just how did they make a record about a broken record, it's absurd enough to make me laugh (come to think of it, it is kind of the way giddy love feels), i think that's why "The Broken Record"  sticks to my head (or is it my love of anything Berigan was on in 1935/6 over riding it all), any ideas on the vocalists on the vocal trio?
Yves

--- On Sun, 1/25/09, Taylor Bowie <bowiebks at isomedia.com> wrote:

> From: Taylor Bowie <bowiebks at isomedia.com>
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Song "The Broken Record"
> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Date: Sunday, January 25, 2009, 1:21 AM
> Yves,  I also love the Tea For Two lyric...I think the very
> "literate" verse 
> is a perfect set-up for the more simple chorus,  and all
> the words and the 
> music make a perfect combination.
> 
> Certainly a lyric which contains "cozy to hide in,  to
> sit side-by-side in, 
> don't let it abide in my dreams" carries a lot
> more weight than "The needle 
> stuck on the broken half..."
> 
> Taylor B
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "yves francois"
> <aprestitine at yahoo.com>
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> Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2009 10:58 PM
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Song "The Broken Record"
> 
> 
> >    ... 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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