[78-L] Spontaneous recordings that were released

[Cary Ginell]

It's written in the script. A plant in the audience asks him to sing it faster. 

Cary Ginell

On Feb 5, 2012, at 9:30 PM, "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca> wrote:

> 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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