[78-L] Spike Jones orphan

David Lennick dlennick at sympatico.ca
Wed Dec 22 11:29:45 PST 2010


Except that Spike's transcriptions were all in the R- series except for the two 
"Other Orchestra" discs which were Z-.

If my Jack Mirtle book were handy, this would be answered in seconds.

dl

On 12/22/2010 2:22 PM, GENE JOSLIN wrote:
> Y-359 sounds like a number for a Standard 16-inch transcription.  Jones appeared on a number of these including "Never Hit Your Grandma With A Shovel" (It makes a bad impression on her mind.)
>
> --- On Wed, 12/22/10, Michael Biel<mbiel at mbiel.com>  wrote:
>
>> From: Michael Biel<mbiel at mbiel.com>
>> Subject: Re: [78-L] Spike Jones orphan
>> To: "78-L Mail List"<78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
>> Date: Wednesday, December 22, 2010, 12:32 PM
>> Y-359 is Musical Nonsense containing
>> 45-5164 and 5165.  I don't know
>> what the other two titles are yet.   RCA
>> Victor started using the 45-
>> series several years before the 45 RPM record was
>> introduced.
>>
>> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
>>
>>
>>
>> On 12/22/2010 1:03 PM, Malcolm Rockwell wrote:
>>> It's RCA Victor 45-5165, "Hawaiian War Chant" b/w
>> "Chloe." It does not
>>> show up in the Hawaiian discog because I thought
>> (obviously by mistake
>>> because I now have a 78rpm label scan of it) that the
>> 45- prefix was for
>>> 45rpm records.
>>> Still learning,
>>> Mal
>>>
>>> *******
>>>
>>> On 12/22/2010 7:50 AM, David Lennick wrote:
>>>> And I thought this was going to be about "Mommy
>> Won't You Buy a Baby Brother"
>>>> and the promo flip side which was something about
>> adopting orphans.
>>>>
>>>> What's the disc? I'm not finding Y-359 in the
>> discography in Jordan Young's book.
>>>>
>>>> dl
>>>>
>>>> On 12/22/2010 12:41 PM, Malcolm Rockwell wrote:
>>>>> Hey gang, what was the album title for (RCA)
>> Victor Y-359 by Spike Jones?
>>>>> I have one orphan record from the set.
>>>>> Mal
>>> ________________________


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