Victrolacollector wrote:
Thanks for sharing, I never knew that existed. I have a couple of copies of the Laughing Record, but crying, that is too sad.
I always wondered why they made the laughing record, and then a crying record? How many really sold? It seems early Okeh records are pretty scarce. Eventually Okeh did release some good titles.
I know that the OKeh Laughing Record was in their catalog for quite a long time. There is a 45 rpm version of the same record released in the 1950s. So, it must have been a pretty popular record. Though I am not sure why. In my research I found that they recorded and released the Crying Record, originally in Europe then in the USA, because of the success of the Laughing Record.