Edison's questionable taste in music...

[Wolfe]

"I still can't believe they had him record on an upright, and I'll bet that was the idea of one T.A.E. "


Wasn't one of Tom's concrete pianos, was it ?

It might have been a Lauter upright. Edison is supposed to have really liked their pianos, and had them around.

[dennman6]

She Walks In Her Husbands Sleep by Aileen Stanley

Aileen Stanley = loads of personality that she knew how project to the recording machinery. I like her a lot, though the only Diamond Disc I own of hers is a song called Anna In Indiana, which is a rather tedious song that even she can't save.

I've heard the Arthur Fields version of this song, complete with barnyard animal effects. A politically incorrect riot! "Anna in Indiana, I'll put my arms around her far as they will go, She's really nifty, weighs just two fifty, A great big fat girl now and then, Is relished by the best of men..." Zaftig is gut, ja?

[Guest]

"I've heard the Arthur Fields version of this song, complete with barnyard animal effects. A politically incorrect riot! "Anna in Indiana, I'll put my arms around her far as they will go, She's really nifty, weighs just two fifty, A great big fat girl now and then, Is relished by the best of men..." Zaftig is gut, ja?"

I wonder if this inpsired Hoagy Carmichael's 1940's record: "Huggin' and Chalkin' "...

" I've got a gal that's mighty sweet,
big blue eyes, and tiny feet;
Her name is Isabelle McGee
and she tips the scales at 303 ! "

Chorus:

" Oh gee, oh ain't it grand to have a gal so big'n' fat
that when you go to hug her, you don't know where you're at,
You've got to take a piece of chalk in your hand,
And hug a while and chalk a mark to see where you began...
One day, I was a huggin' and a chalkin' , and a-askin' her to be my bride,
When I met another fellow with some chalk in his hand,
A comin' around the other side (over the mountain), a comin' around the
other side. "

Haven't heard that song for over thirty years, but for some reason, the words have stuck...

[JohnM]

"I still can't believe they had him record on an upright, and I'll bet that was the idea of one T.A.E. "


Wasn't one of Tom's concrete pianos, was it ?

It might have been a Lauter upright. Edison is supposed to have really liked their pianos, and had them around.

TAE probably preferred them because someone told him they were Lauter pianos and he thought they said "louder"!