[78-L] Capehart changer, was Columbia album sets

Don Chichester dnjchi78 at live.com
Thu Feb 17 17:23:23 PST 2011


I recall Fibber McGee 'repaired' his changer and it proceeded to attack him, flinging 78s around the room.  Very funny routine!
 
Don
 
> Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2011 16:39:12 -0800
> From: danvanlandingham at yahoo.com
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Columbia album sets
> 
> Capehart.I love it;you description reminds me of an old Warner Brothers cartoon 
> from the '40s I
> saw where the automatic record changer flung a record across the room.The 
> cartoon featured two
> dogs that were in a "house of the future".The robot-maid cleaned up the broken 
> records afterwar-
> ds.The records were being flung from the changer at a high rate of speed.Didn't 
> Capehart merge
> with Farnsworth?I had a Farnsworth radio-phono combination some 40 years ago.The 
> cartoon I
> saw was on a Portland,Oregon-based early morning show called "Ramblin' Rod".It 
> was on the air
> from the early '60s well into the 1980s,long after I got out of college.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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> http://www.bach-cantatas.com/Memo/Art-1833.htm
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> dl
> 
> On 2/17/2011 9:44 AM, simmonssomer wrote:
> > Let's hear it for
> > Capehart..whirrrr......slide.......whirrrrr.....plop........whizzzz....DUCK!
> >
> > Al S.
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "David Lennick"<dlennick at sympatico.ca>
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> > Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2011 9:01 AM
> > Subject: Re: [78-L] Columbia album sets
> >
> >
> >> Regarding AM..that's how it's listed in the Columbia Celebrity Catalog. It
> >> would have been slide automatic since drop auto didn't come along until
> >> 1940
> >> (yes I know, Victor had it in 1928).
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