I like the use of the phrase "go to Helen Hunt for it" in this comic song
https://youtu.be/791jDX72y4Y
Anyone know when this was recorded and who the tenor was?
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Re: Miss Helen Hunt
The announcement says it's sung by Will F. Denny, and I'm pretty sure he's the announcer as well.
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Ah, thanks, don't know how I missed that.52089 wrote:The announcement says it's sung by Will F. Denny, and I'm pretty sure he's the announcer as well.
Any ideas on the year? Obviously after the 1903 copyright date on the record slip.
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Re: Miss Helen Hunt
Ah, Helen Hunt, Helen Waite, Helen Gonne...and the whole Dam Family.
There's a Lambert replica by Vulcan with "Helen Gonne" recorded--sounds like a saccharine parlor ballad about how everything the lover has goes to Helen Gonne...then you get the joke and nothing is the same again.
There's a Lambert replica by Vulcan with "Helen Gonne" recorded--sounds like a saccharine parlor ballad about how everything the lover has goes to Helen Gonne...then you get the joke and nothing is the same again.
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The length of time from when the video started until stylus hit the cylinder seemed interminable.Wes K wrote:Ah, thanks, don't know how I missed that.52089 wrote:The announcement says it's sung by Will F. Denny, and I'm pretty sure he's the announcer as well.
Any ideas on the year? Obviously after the 1903 copyright date on the record slip.
Here's several more recordings of this song with Denny. He seems to announce them all. None are your cylinder, alas.
http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/searc ... +hunt&nq=1
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Tick..tick..tick..Wolfe wrote:The length of time from when the video started until stylus hit the cylinder seemed interminable.Wes K wrote:Ah, thanks, don't know how I missed that.52089 wrote:The announcement says it's sung by Will F. Denny, and I'm pretty sure he's the announcer as well.
Any ideas on the year? Obviously after the 1903 copyright date on the record slip.
Here's several more recordings of this song with Denny. He seems to announce them all. None are your cylinder, alas.
http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/searc ... +hunt&nq=1
The first record on that list in your link has the same catalog number as the record in my video, but the date of the record given as 1899 seems to predate the molded record I have. Did Columbia remake its popular titles and reuse the same catalog number when going from brown was to molded records?
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Edison issued some remade moulded titles with the same catalog #'s as their earlier versions. Not sure if Columbia did.
One of the TMF's esteemed cylinder collector / experts could probably answer that better than I.
One of the TMF's esteemed cylinder collector / experts could probably answer that better than I.
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Re: Miss Helen Hunt
I have a copy of this song on an early Eldridge R. Johnson 7" Victor.
A-31, Miss Helen Hunt, Sung by S.H. Dudley, Dated 11/13/1900
It is also announced.
Cheers, Bob S.
A-31, Miss Helen Hunt, Sung by S.H. Dudley, Dated 11/13/1900
It is also announced.
Cheers, Bob S.
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