[78-L] Am I Missing Something?

David Lennick dlennick at sympatico.ca
Wed Mar 11 12:29:35 PDT 2009


Funny! Yup, that sold 1,069,000 according to "one report" cited in The Book Of 
Golden Dickheads". And it turns up in every single collection and junk pile, 
along with Jolson's even bigger seller (1,846,000 copies), The Spaniel that 
Blighted My Wife.

Don't make me laugh, I got chapped lips.

dl

Bill Knowlton wrote:
> A neighbor of mine gave me a copy of an item appearing in something called "Yankee Ingenuity." It discusses Gold Records and what might have been "the  first million seller record."
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> To quoth: "Nobody knows for sure what the first million-selling record was. One likely candidate: 'Ragging the Baby To Sleep,' recorded by Al Jolson on April 17, 1912."
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> BILL KNOWLTON, 



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