[78-L] Happy Birthday to You

Steven C. Barr stevenc at interlinks.net
Mon Dec 14 18:28:48 PST 2009


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Cary Ginell" <soundthink at live.com>
> I doubt this was issued as a juke box record. The Wanderers only released 
> 9 sides from what turned out to be their only session (1/28/35), so 
> SOMETHING had to be an odd side. Maybe back then they just paired odd 
> sides together. As someone once purportedly told Sigmund Freud, "Siggy, 
> sometimes a cigar is only a cigar."
>
The "custom" of putting the same artist on both sides of a "single" seems to 
have
come about around 194?...prior to that, record companies paired sides 
more-or-less
at random...?!

Steven C. Barr 




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