[78-L] Square Record was Re: Eurovision on 78

[David Lennick]

Funny thing about that record. In 1985 I'd returned to Toronto from Edmonton 
where I'd spent three years as host of RSVP on CBC Radio (why Edmonton? 
something to do with "regional presence", nothing to do with parachuting a 
Toronto host onto the Prairies and stranding him there for 3 years) and one of 
the songs we played almost weekly as a request was Teddy Bears' Picnic. And I 
heard 'THAT SONG' coming from a small speaker at the corner of Yonge and 
Eglington one December afternoon. A guy was standing there selling (last 
year's) calendars, each of which contained that bear-shaped record.

I didn't buy one.

dl

Christopher Steward wrote:
> I've got a nice 45 rpm reissue by the International Teddy Bear Club of Henry Hall's The Teddy Bears' Picnic. It's a picture disc in the shape of a Teddy Bear. The reverse is Hush, Hush, Hush, Here Comes the Bogie Man. It's in the shape of . . . a Teddy Bear.
> Chris
> 
> --- On Tue, 5/5/09, Dnjchi at aol.com <Dnjchi at aol.com> wrote:
> 
> From: Dnjchi at aol.com <Dnjchi at aol.com>
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Square Record was Re: Eurovision on 78
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Date: Tuesday, 5 May, 2009, 12:16 PM
> 
>  
> Originally I said:
>> I've never seen a square dance record.  All round.
>  
> In a message dated 5/5/2009 5:19:24 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
> agp2176 at verizon.net writes:
> 
> At 13:29  04/05/2009, Dave Lennick wrote:
>> I remember an octagonal record..Rhino  turned out a fish-shaped 
>> record, a Jewish
>> Star-shaped record, a  few others..
> 
> In 1978, as part of its (re)-launch EMI America records  released a 
> promo only square white vinyl record by Walter Zwol. Credited  simply 
> to Zwol, the song was called New York City.
> 
> See it  here
> 
> http://www.discogs.com/viewimages?release=1581866
> 
> Listen to  it somewhere else .. please
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Now I HAVE seen a square dance record.  That's Zwol, folks!
>  
> dc