[78-L] Ge laughing record

[Royal Pemberton]

Tyrone's listing shows the laughing record as matrix 19120 with the
date of 28 April 1936.  The Okeh looks like a typical early 1950s
Columbia mastering, so I'm guessing it's a dub of the 1936 ARC dub.

On 4/19/09, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca> wrote:
> And it DID make it to 45, as I'm sure Mike Biel will tell us (just as he has
> a
> number of times in the past). But I've never seen the 50s reissue as a real
> pressing, only a promo. I've also had it on blue label Vocalion with
> "Laughing
> Record #2" on the reverse, a dubbed master with a matrix number around
> 19xxx,
> same number that appears on the 50s reissue..which means it's been dubbed
> twice
> by that time. I've also had it on laminated OKeh, late 20s; cracked red
> label
> original OKeh; a dubbed acoustical issue on Canadian Apex....think that's it
> for me.
>
> dl
>
> Royal Pemberton wrote:
>> It's Okeh 6925.
>>
>> On 4/19/09, Royal Pemberton <ampex354 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I'd say just a sharp cutoff, low-passed at around 4 kHz.
>>>
>>> On 4/19/09, Doug Pomeroy <pomeroyaudio at att.net> wrote:
>>>> Really? The original Okeh Laughing Record reissued in the 50's?
>>>> On a Purple label Okeh 78?  Did they do anything to reduce the
>>>> surface noise???  I remember when I went to work for Columbia
>>>> (1969) I had the bright idea of suggesting that they reissue that
>>>> record on a 45 (which I never did).  Shows how "out of it" I was!
>>>> (And still am.)
>>>>
>>>> Doug P.
>>>>
>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>> --------
>>>>
>>>>> Message: 18
>>>>> Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2009 16:45:01 -0400
>>>>> From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
>>>>> Subject: Re: [78-L] Ge laughing record
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>>>>> Bud Black wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> All this talk about "laughing" records.  How many "crying" records
>>>>>> can you
>>>>>> come up with?  One could be Jerry Colonna's recording (on Capitol
>>>>>> IIRC) of
>>>>>> I Cried For You."
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Bud
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> The OKeh Laughing Record was reissued in the early 50s, backed with
>>>>> Bob
>>>>> Atcher's "I'm Thinking Tonight Of My Blue Eyes", subtitled Crying
>>>>> Record.
>>>>> That's the one I've turned up twice on vinyl promos.
>>>>>
>>>>> dl
>>>>>
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