[78-L] Olde-timers, MM

[Michael Biel]

From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> I bought it for 69 cents in New York in the 70s..probably
> could have taken a ton of them but that's not an option
> when you're a tourist.  dl

Hey, I used to fly home from Europe with hundreds of records!

I got mine new when it came out while I worked for a record distributor.
 For all I know, your 3/%1 or .69 copies might have come from the same
distributor!  Same is true with my copy of the similar record, Jackie
Kannon's World War III With The Original Cast, although it was not a new
release when I found a few copies at that distributor's warehouse. 
That's the one which starts with an explosion and 19 minutes of blank
grooves, and has the corners and center hole of the innersleeve singed. 

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com  




eugene hayhoe wrote:
> Actually I wish I had bought the lot back around 1970-72 when I saw a boxful or so of them marked 3/$1; at the time I just thought 'how stupid,' without thinking that they'd make a great gag gift (or that they weren't silent). Picked up one up cheap a couple years back just so that I could confirm, as dl states, that it was indeed silence.    Gene
 
> 
From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> Don't laugh..Michael Viner put out an album on MGM called "An Evening with 
> Marcel Marceao" (probably misspelled on purpose). 18 minutes of silence 
> followed by rapturous applause on each side.   dl
> 
Mark L. Bardenwerper, Sr. wrote:
>>> Marcel Marceau?
>> Did he make any records? Let's see, oh yes, I do have one. Listen:
>> "---------------"
>> Nice beat. I'll give it an 8.