[78-L] Spontaneous recordings that were released

[Cary Ginell]

I think that is done in "The Model of a Modern Major General," from "The Pirates of Penzance."

Cary Ginell

On Feb 5, 2012, at 8:08 PM, "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca> wrote:

> 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
>> 
> 
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