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Re: It took me nearly 12 years to find this record...
Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2020 10:27 am
by melvind
dzavracky wrote:I have the Cameo laughing record........ worst 3 minuets of my life
I personally hate the record (partially because I am a jazz saxophonist and what he did to that poor saxophone hurts me
).... Do you guys want them for the sake of having them? or to actually sit down and listen to it.
I do not listen to them much. But, I have a passion for the unusual and rare things in my collecting. So, when I find an odd record I just have to get it. The records I listen to are pretty mainstream and a mix of classical, opera and 1920s and 30s jazz.
Re: It took me nearly 12 years to find this record...
Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2020 6:58 pm
by AmberolaAndy
Last year I bought a record called “Button Buster (Try Not To Laugh)” it was pretty much the same thing.
Re: It took me nearly 12 years to find this record...
Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2020 12:31 pm
by Roaring20s
Never saw the Cameo version and this is the first time I've seen a Columbia laughing record...
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James.
Re: It took me nearly 12 years to find this record...
Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2020 12:56 pm
by Inigo
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The Okeh laughing was issued in Europe coming from Germany. Mine is this one, Spanish Parlophon issue:
cornetista bufo (disco de la risa) — T + V — par b 25014 (197 25cm t17) — Mx. 34779 (w) bs — Rec. 1928 04 02 berlin
It has a German Beka matrix no. but it's audibly the same recording... A mystery, renumbered matrix?
Here's the extract from Chris Zwarg Beka discography:
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Re: It took me nearly 12 years to find this record...
Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2020 8:07 pm
by ChesterCheetah18
I've owned several copies of the Okeh over the years, currently own a copy of the Columbia, and used to own a copy of the Gennett. Haven't seen the Cameo before. Earlier this week I was given a box of 100 or so Diamond Discs, including this one. First time I've run across it.
Re: It took me nearly 12 years to find this record...
Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2020 9:10 pm
by Wolfe
Here is the audio of that Edison record.
https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/ ... ing_record
There's also listed on the DAHR a Victor laughing record "comic scene with cornet".
Wasn't issued, ultimately.
Re: It took me nearly 12 years to find this record...
Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2020 9:56 pm
by ChesterCheetah18
There were definitely several different ones. Could this possibly be considered the "granddaddy" of the "Laughing Records"?
Re: It took me nearly 12 years to find this record...
Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2020 10:10 pm
by Wolfe
George W. Johnson's recording of his "Laughing Song" is considered one of the first big record hits - whenever he first recorded it on cylinder in 1890-something. Then he re-recorded it a number of times for various companies.
Re: It took me nearly 12 years to find this record...
Posted: Sat Oct 24, 2020 2:28 am
by Governor Flyball
I found this record some 40 years ago. I still have it but I see others have put it on You Tube.
It is Henry Klauser's Laughing Song from 1904.
https://youtu.be/9wI_b4ADQ14
Re: It took me nearly 12 years to find this record...
Posted: Sat Oct 24, 2020 4:24 am
by Orchorsol
When I used to play 78s on an external horn gramophone all day at the entrance to an antiques and vintage fair on the High Street of my home town, the laughing records were the most fun. Watching the faces of passers by was absolutely priceless.
Two years ago (2018) I made videos of both the OKeh and Gennett Laughing Records. I am now adding my 3rd Laughing Record on the Cameo label. At first I thought it might be a copy of the Gennett record. They were both released the same year by the same artists. But, they are different recordings with different music.