[78-L] If Daddy is a Commie then you gotta turn him in..

Michael Biel mbiel at mbiel.com
Thu Jan 28 23:54:31 PST 2010


From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> Well, that was fun..we just watched the 1951 "I Was a Communist
> for the FBI" with Frank Lovejoy. ... And Cvetic enters a record store,
> and asks for "Beethoven's Emperor Concerto". The clerk says
> "The long playing version?" Cvetic replies "No, the standard Red label."
> You with me so far? What's this in code? The clerk hands Cvetic a 78 
> album and says that all their listening booths are full but there's a
> special private room in the back. Cvetic takes the album, goes into
> the back room, and..the store is a front for the FBI meetings! dl

Was it a Victor album? Did they have any Red Army Chorus on Keynote?
Paul Robeson "Songs Of Free Men"?  Or The Weavers?  Were there albums on
display?  Could they be recognized or were they fake?

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com




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