[78-L] Flatacre records

[Michael Biel]

On 9/19/2011 4:16 PM, Thomas Stern wrote:
> a quick google yields this:
>    http://www.jasminbailey.com/home.cfm
>
> Best wishes, Thomas.

...and here is the commercial itself:
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OI1yGYHJico

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com

> -----Original Message-----
> From: DAVID BURNHAM
>
>
> There's a commercial currently being shown, (only in Canada), the plot of which is that a girl is being evicted from her home.
>   She's sitting on her verandah with a blues record playing while movers remove her belongings.  Suddenly she puts her finger on
> the record, stopping it and the motion of the movers stops as well; then she starts rocking the record back and forth, with the
> movers also rocking back and forth, and then she starts turning the record backwards and the movers, moving backwards, return her
> belongings to the house.  They are advertising some credit service which can ease your financial woes.
>
> But I'm interested in the record.  It briefly shows a close-up of the disc which, although it's clearly and LP, has what appears
> to be a 78 label somewhat loosely pasted on.  The label says "Flatacre" as the manufacturer in large letters at the top.  Below
> that it says "Electrically recorded", (I've never seen an LP with that), and the record number is 2310 - A.  The title is "212
> Blues", and in the area where 78s often described the nature of the contents, it says, "Blues Singing at its finest".  The artists
> are "Jasmine Bailey and the Rhythm Busters and around the bottom of the label appears, "MFG. by the Flatacre Radio Corporation";
>   at the very bottom is "Made in Canada".  The only way all of this can be read is by pausing the picture.  There is no connection
> that I can see between the title, artists, record number, label name, etc. and the product being advertised.  I'm wondering if
> this actually is a label from a real 78;  I've never seen
>   a record by the "Flatacre" company.
>
>
> db