[78-L] Spontaneous recordings that were released

[David Lennick]

Apart from Annette Hanshaw's "That's all" tag, which may have been spontaneous, 
I'm not aware of any others, but I can name two 78s where it was decided to put 
the lacquer back on the table and add something to fill out or extend the side. 
Groove patterns are visibly different on one of the Burl Ives Asch sides and 
one of Florence Foster Jenkins' discs (in FloJay's case, the disc wasn't even 
centered carefully).

Hmm..isn't there a famous G&T where a well known opera singer renders an aria 
and is applauded by hangers-on and decides to sing it again (supposedly)?

dl

On 2/5/2012 6:24 PM, Dennis Flannigan wrote:
> In preparing music for my radio show, I decided to feature credit payment
> songs, and the like. I looked for coupon, credit costs and debt songs. All
> because I wanted to play a Bill Monroe recording of the, "COUPON SONG." He
> is not the singer, but there are few Monroe novelty recordings.
>
> One song I selected was, "DOLLAR DOWN AND A DOLLAR A DAY WITH CHICKEN PIE,"
> by the Arkansas Woodchopper (Luther Ossenbrink), on Cq 7887. Ossenbrink was
> surprised by how quick (one minute and nine seconds), "Dollar Down and a
> Dollar a Day," took, and glibly added, "Chicken Pie," to complete the
> recording. His surprise is apparent. Only time I've heard such a thing on a
> 78.
>
> Are there other examples of songs spontaneously included on a 78 rpm
> release? It is the first I've noticed, and suspect most would have been
> discarded, or remained unreleased.
>
> "Dollar Down and a Dollar a Day with Chicken Pie," has been uploaded to
> picosong.com and can be found at:
>
> http://picosong.com/WHr
>
> Dennis
>