[78-L] What's the story on Victor 17959?

[Taylor Bowie]

Just seems odd to me that, after the sinking of the Lusitania,  how anyone 
could issue any sort of comic song about U-Boats...more than 100 Americans 
lost their lives when she sank.


Taylor


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> Turns out the Lusitania was indeed transporting munitions sub rosa.
> But it wasn't the U-17 that did her in. It was the U-20.
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> Al Simmons
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>> On May 7 1916 the NY Times ran a picture of the "Goetz medal," a German
>> propaganda piece designed to justify the sinking of the Lusitania one 
>> year
>> previously. It was reprinted in many periodicals and stirred up a lot of
>> anti-German sentiment. Probably torpedoed Billy's little joke.
>> David Diehl
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>> I was browsing the EDVR and came across a song by Billy Murray entitled
>> "Down in the U-17", subtitled in the ledgers (but possibly not on the
>> record)
>> as "A Musical Torpedo". Curiosity piqued, I looked up the catalogue 
>> number
>> it was issued under: Vic 17959, issued in April 1916 and deleted just a
>> month
>> later! I found a recording of it at
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>> http://turtleservices.com/downu-17.htm
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>> The fact that it's about a German submarine crew having a merry old time
>> could certainly have ruffled enough feathers to make Victor have second
>> thoughts,
>> but does anyone know for sure? Did Victor themselves make the decision, 
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>> were there complaints from record buyers? I guess I've wondered the same
>> thing
>> about Jan Garber's recording of "How Could Red Riding Hood?" that was
>> also apparently withdrawn, even though?quite a few?other bands and 
>> singers
>> recorded it without much apparent fuss.
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>> -Harold
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