[78-L] Shortest 78

[David Lennick]

Hey, I wonder if this was the same as "The Nothing Album" which came out in 
Canada around that time. Did the Reagan disc have tracks, about 5 per side, by 
any chance? Produced by a Toronto comedy writer named Jim Tuck, whose only 
other claim to fame (apart from being in a mediocre comic group) was dating 
Madonna for about five minutes.

As for "LP noise"..that one was too quiet. I used the flip side of a late 
Chappell 78 that had about 5 minutes of microgroove blank grooves (or 3 at 
45RPM). For transcription noise, I have a blank pregrooved RCA home recording 
disc. But that doesn't leave this room.

dl

Randy Watts wrote:
> "The Wit and Wisdom of Ronald Reagan" was genuine. Released by the Stiff label, it was an LP that played for thirty-five minutes or so and contained absolutely nothing. It reportedly sold around 30,000 copies.
> 
> Friend of mine told me it came in very handy once when he needed "LP noise" to overdub for a theater project.
> 
> Randy
> 
> --- On Mon, 2/16/09, Andrea Walsh <petquality1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> From: Andrea Walsh <petquality1 at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: [78-L] Shortest 78
>> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
>> Date: Monday, February 16, 2009, 2:48 PM
>> I remember seeing it at my local
>> record store (music plus! ) and there being
>> a hand written note attached to it (probably by the
>> management) warning that
>> it was a blank record.  More a curiosity or novelty. I
>> certainly couldn't
>> afford it at the time on my allowance (I was 11 in 1980,my
>> $5 a week meant I
>> had to buy records with actual music on 'em!) but I also
>> remember the
>> release of it being on the local LA news as one of those
>> "on the wacky side
>> of life" type human interest pieces.
>>
>> Andrea
> 
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