[78-L] Laughing Record question

[David Lennick]

Aside from "Meet the Staff of MAD" (which was a 33rpm cardboard insert, but 
made when 78s still hadn't disappeared) there's Spike Jones' "JONES LAUGHING 
RECORD" among later ones, plus Rudy Vallee's "THE DRUNKARD SONG".

I mentioned a while ago that the OKeh disc was issued by Apex, acoustically 
dubbed (!) and not credited to OKeh..wonder if this was before they had the 
Canadian rights to the label?

dl

Michael Biel wrote:
> We've discussed these numerous times here but I don't think any
> discography listing resulted.  Note that the label site I referenced
> last week has a picture of a late-20s pressing of the OKeh Laughing
> Record, black label, laminated pressing, with the European matrix number
> visible under the label.  I've told the story that when Columbia/OKeh
> reissued it as a 45, the H. Royer Smith record store in Phila eventually
> bought up the entire warehouse stock so that the company could delete
> the record from the catalog.  Stupidly I never got around to buying one.
> 
> 
> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com  
> 
> 
> 
> From: krabgrass at aol.com
>> I note I'm not the only fan of early laughing records, nor later ones.
>> My question is how many 78 rpm laughing records were made? Has any reader
>> collected them? I'd love to get a list of laughs.   Dennis Flannigan
>