[78-L] Looking for info on jukebox promo record

[David Lennick]

From: mbiel at mbiel.com
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 20:56:20 -0700
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Looking for info on jukebox promo record
> 
> From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> > Tell him not to quit his day job. I thought it might be "Johnny Victor",
> > who narrates the Mario Lanza Story on a Victor white label, but this guy
> > sounds like someone out of the mailroom. dl
> 
> This guy sounds like the two guys on a pair of Edison 30 RPM
> experimentals "The Jolly Dubbers" where the dubbing engineers tried to
> pretend they were making a radio program from dubbing Edison discs. 
> This is so artlessly done, just fading out the records at an
> inappropriate point -- sounds like the 30 second samples we hear on the
> web now!
> 
> Mike Biel mbiel at mbiel.com 
> 

 

I've seen a similar 78 promo from Capitol c. 1950, but without narration. And there are lots of 33RPM dealer demos from Columbia, RCA and Capitol, sometimes with exclusive material and interviews. Cosme McMoon, the infamous Florence Foster Jenkins' infamous accompanist, is on one of them.

 

dl