Worst cylinder record songs

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"Kiss Duet from A Waltz Dream" is pretty bad.

I can't find it on YouTube, but it's not worth listening to anyways
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JerryVan wrote: Fri Nov 28, 2025 8:19 am "Santa Claus Hides in Your Phonograph" Sounds more like something from a Freddy Krueger movie.
I have the Ernest Hare version on Brunswick and always wanted to do a video of it playing on my YouTube channel but cannot remember where I put the darn thing at!!

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honeslty im a really big fan of anything Will F Denny but "Big Black Annies Birfday Ball" has gotta be the worst ive ever heard. it manages to be racist and have no discernable melody or chorus.

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I have an Edison 2 minute black wax bagpipe record that’s pretty bad. The Minstrel Boy by James Mc Auliffe. # 8487.

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1BcjAd ... tid=wwXIfr

I had BA 5503 titled “ A red headed widow was the cause of it all” by Willard Hodgin that was pretty unlistenable too!
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phonospud wrote: Fri Jan 30, 2026 11:18 am This is pretty bad too:
https://www.facebook.com/share/v/17z75H ... tid=wwXIfr
OT, but this reminds me of an horrendous Wagner 78 I once bought, 'Siegfried forging the sword'. It was an HMV DB 3000-something, sung by Lauritz Melchior or Lawrence Tibbett or someone alike... It was four minutes of anvil clinking and singer shouting Hi-yah-hawwww, hi-yah-hawww... :D :D
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Inigo wrote: Mon Feb 02, 2026 1:09 am
phonospud wrote: Fri Jan 30, 2026 11:18 am This is pretty bad too:
https://www.facebook.com/share/v/17z75H ... tid=wwXIfr
OT, but this reminds me of an horrendous Wagner 78 I once bought, 'Siegfried forging the sword'. It was an HMV DB 3000-something, sung by Lauritz Melchior or Lawrence Tibbett or someone alike... It was four minutes of anvil clinking and singer shouting Hi-yah-hawwww, hi-yah-hawww... :D :D

(Double-click the video above or click this link to go to the video on YouTube.)

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LOL!!! 😝
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