[78-L] Olde-timers, MM

[David Lennick]

Michael Biel wrote:
> 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. 
> 
That's one I've never seen. I got the Marcel Marceao at a place on Broadway 
that I think sold a lot of other stuff besides discount records. As to bringing 
stuff back, in those days the limit you could bring back to Canada was much 
lower, and I might have been there on a one-day visit.


dl

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> 
> 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.
> 
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