[78-L] Spike Jones By the Beautiful Sea

David Lennick dlennick at sympatico.ca
Sat Sep 5 13:56:53 PDT 2009


I don't think it was a matter of Red Wing being pulled so much as "Doors" being 
reissued for the juke box trade, or a flip being needed for the King Sisters 
side combined with the shellac shortage. I could be wrong..I was once before..

dl


Bud Black wrote:
> Somebody 'splain to me why the Spike Jones recording of Red Wing on the
> Bluebird label was pulled, and replaced by a King Sisters tune?  The flip
> side was "Behind Those Swinging Doors."  I have a copy of the latter backed
> by Red Wing, but I understand that it's rather rare.
> 
> Bud 
>  
> -------Original Message-------
>  
> From: David Lennick
> Date: 9/4/2009 10:37:17 PM
> To: 78-L Mail List
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Spike Jones By the Beautiful Sea
>  
> Glenn Longwell wrote:
>> I just read Tom Hawhtorn's auction list and he shows Victor 20-2861 by
> Spike Jones with "By the Beautiful Sea" as being the original and mentions
> that side was quickly pulled and replaced with "The Man on the Flying
> Trapeze."  Anyone know why the original was pulled and replaced with
> Trapeze?
>> I prefer the Trapeze side but that's irrelevant.
>>
>> Glenn
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>  
> Famous story..told here a few times. Someone thought they heard "over and
> under
> and then up her arse" instead of "over and under and then up for air". There
> are other variations. And yes, the disc is fairly rare..I've had it twice,
> on
> shellac and white label DJ vinyl.
>  
> dl
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