[78-L] Song "The Broken Record"

[Taylor Bowie]

Have never been able to spot the vocal trio...the band is too small for them 
to be three of the musicians.

The record is impossible to resist...that about sums it up!

Taylor B

"I love you - I love you  - I love you - I love you  - I love you I DO!"



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "yves francois" <aprestitine at yahoo.com>
To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2009 12:04 AM
Subject: Re: [78-L] Song "The Broken Record"


> 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>
>> To: "78-L Mail List"
>> <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
>> 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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