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

[Mike Harkin]

--- On Wed, 3/4/09, Taylor Bowie <bowiebks at isomedia.com> wrote:

> From: Taylor Bowie <bowiebks at isomedia.com>
> Subject: Re: [78-L] What's the story on Victor 17959?
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> Date: Wednesday, March 4, 2009, 7:55 PM
> 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.

But U-20 doesn't rhyme with 'submarine'....

Mike in Plovdiv
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> > Al Simmons
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> > Sent: Wednesday, March 04, 2009 8:49 PM
> > Subject: Re: [78-L] What's the story on Victor
> 17959?
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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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> >> -----Original Message-----
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> >>
> >>
> >>
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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
> >> ?
> >> http://turtleservices.com/downu-17.htm
> >> ?
> >> 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, 
> >> or
> >> 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.
> >> ?
> >> -Harold
> >>
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