[78-L] Spontaneous recordings that were released

[David Lennick]

Sounds familiar..I know I heard the record years ago.

dl

On 2/6/2012 12:11 AM, Cary Ginell wrote:
> 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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