[78-L] Flatacre records

[David Lennick]

Cute dog. By the way, I used "Electrically Recorded" on some Radiex CDs in the 90s.

dl

On 9/19/2011 4:39 PM, Michael Biel wrote:
> 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
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