[78-L] A unique side break

David Lennick dlennick at sympatico.ca
Mon Mar 3 16:05:18 PST 2014


And then there's MAN/WOMAN by Rosemary Clooney/Jose Ferrer, each side of which 
directs you to the other side.

dl

On 3/3/2014 6:29 PM, Rodger Holtin wrote:
> And of course, Genie the
> Magic Record, Peter Lind Hayes,  on Decca DV 900002 B (mx 73674)
>
>
> no warning on side One to
> continue on the flip, but side Two opens with
> SCRATCH - "Oops, be
> careful with that needle, it scratches.!  I'm sure glad you turned me over
> - that fuzz on the phonograph tickles."  That was for the kiddie
> market in 1947 and my kids loved it in the 1980s and asked for a CD copy for
> Christmas a few years ago.
>
>
> I also have Beltona 1596 (mx
> M13125/6), ["British Made," it says, and obviously for Scottish
> distribution]
> Bringing in the New Year by
> Bob Smith and His Ideal Band
> Their genuine Scots is much
> stronger than my well-studied-but-still-limited Harry Lauder vocabulary, so I
> canna unnerstan' all of what what he says at the end of Part 1, but ends with
> something about
> "...terrrn th' rrekkud
> 'roon."  a little different than the rest of us Yankees would use.
>
>
> Can anybody tell me anything
> about this disc??
>
>
> Rodger
>
>
> For Best Results use Victor Needles.
>
>
> .
>
>
> ________________________________
>   From: Kristjan Saag<saag at telia.com>
> To: 78-L Mail List<78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Sent: Sunday, March 2, 2014 1:58 PM
> Subject: Re: [78-L] A unique side break
>
>
> Swedish novelty music artist Povel Ramel and vocalist Alice Babs (who
> died just a few weeks ago, at 90) announced the end of Side One of "The
> Big Juleblues" (The Big Christmas Blues, recorded in 1952) in the
> following way:
> Alice Babs and the vocal backing group ends a nonsense dialogue:
>
> Alice Babs: ...you'll find out, anyway.
> Group: What do we find out?
> Alice Babs: You'll know if you flip the disc.
> Povel Ramel: If you haven't played the other side first - in that case
> you know it already. Slickers!
>
> Then Side Two begins with Povel pretending to be a gramophone record on
> a wind-up machine and makes complaints about the needle, which should be
> switched, because it hurts.
> Etc.
> Kristjan
>
>
>
> On 2014-03-02 18:24, David Lennick wrote:
>> When a recording is split over 2 sides of a 78, there are ways to let you know
>> it's time to flip the disc..just heard one of the most unique ones, on Rev. A.
>> W. Nix's "Black Diamond Express to Hell". "And now the Black Diamond train will
>> stop just a minute to take on brimstone for hell."
>>
>> dl


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