[78-L] Laughing Record question

[I. Cubillo]

Biel... Why did they want to delete the record? What kind of ban is this?


Iñigo Cubillo
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From: "Michael Biel" <mbiel at mbiel.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2009 10:43 PM
Subject: Re: [78-L] Laughing Record question


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