What A Title

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I have one called "The Body's Upstairs" and another "She Wouldn't do What I Asked Her to, so I socked Her in the Jaw" I think that the early blues is actually quite dreadful. Not much risk of record wear here on those around me!

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I have a 1930's Bluebird by Trixie Butler. Title: You've Got The Right Key But The Wrong Keyhole. :lol:

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Wolfe wrote:Dig around the old blues record titles sometime. Full of all kind o devils and varmits and sexual innuendo.

LOL I have not heard that word "varmits" in forever....

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My favorite varmit title is Intoxicated Rat by the Dixon Brothers, and I am still looking for a copy of it.

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gramophone78 wrote:I have seen some strange titles over the years. However, while going through a stack of Berliner's today, I spotted this 10" record. What a title.... :?.
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He subsequently became Governor Davis of Louisiana.

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winsleydale wrote:I have a scrolley record titled simply "666". I didn't know that that was even close to acceptable back then.

I believe that "666" referred to a famous and fast locomotive. The modern superstitions regarding the number were unknown amongst the general population. A very few of the most literal fundimentalists were aware of the connotation, but the number did not come to general cultural consiousness until it was used in a couple,of 1970's pictures. The number appears to have been the numerological equivalent of the name of Nero Ceasar, the a Roman emperor. Some scholars in the Middle Ages believed that the correct interpretation was 616, and scholars with intimate knowledge of Classical Greek and Aramaic still hold that the proper numerological translation is 616, but in 1616 the translators of the King James Version chose "666", so "666" it is.

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Uncle Vanya wrote:
gramophone78 wrote:I have seen some strange titles over the years. However, while going through a stack of Berliner's today, I spotted this 10" record. What a title.... :?.
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Seems the owner of the Davis record had a liken to the early Country music. There were a few Jimmie Rodgers, Bob Dixon Trio, Gene Autry, Wilf Carter and Pinky Tomlin.
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Here`s a crazy title that you can here on my blog, Allen`s Archive
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I've always been partial to Victoria Spivey's song titles.

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How about Bloody Razor Blues by Helen Gross and the Choo-Choo Jazzers? Ajax record, ca. 1920's.

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