I can't find it on YouTube, but it's not worth listening to anyways
Re: Worst cylinder record songs
Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2025 11:22 pm
by AmberolaAndy
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!!
Re: Worst cylinder record songs
Posted: Mon Jan 26, 2026 4:11 pm
by phonograph guy3435
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.
Re: Worst cylinder record songs
Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2026 11:13 am
by phonospud
I have an Edison 2 minute black wax bagpipe record that’s pretty bad. The Minstrel Boy by James Mc Auliffe. # 8487.
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...
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...
(Double-click the video above or click this link to go to the video on YouTube.)
Re: Worst cylinder record songs
Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2026 7:43 pm
by phonospud
LOL!!!
Re: Worst cylinder record songs
Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2026 9:52 am
by Inigo
Hearing this again after so many years, it doesn't seem the same, I find it better now. Maybe it's age..
Made me laugh, but the orchestral accompaniment and the melody are good! I remembered it much worse!