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Nat wrote:ANYTHING played in a mall, store or on the street between Thanksgiving and about the middle of January.

ANYTHING played in a mall, store, or on the street between January 1 and December 31. Hilarious and pathetic how these so-called "life-style" malls attempt to re-create the downtown main street shopping experience they helped to destroy, while assaulting our ears with the most wretched gross mutation trash noise that was never, ever imagined, much less played on the street, in the downtowns of my youth.

BTW, add "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" to my previous selections.

Henry wrote:

Nat wrote:ANYTHING played in a mall, store or on the street between Thanksgiving and about the middle of January.

ANYTHING played in a mall, store, or on the street between January 1 and December 31. Hilarious and pathetic how these so-called "life-style" malls attempt to re-create the downtown main street shopping experience they helped to destroy, while assaulting our ears with the most wretched gross mutation trash noise that was never, ever imagined, much less played on the street, in the downtowns of my youth.

BTW, add "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" to my previous selections.

Although on the original Gene Autry recording of 'Rudolph' the trumpet solo is by Andy Secrest who'd played with the likes of Bix Beiderbecke and Frankie Trumbauer a couple of decades earlier....

Viva-Tonal wrote: Although on the original Gene Autry recording of 'Rudolph' the trumpet solo is by Andy Secrest who'd played with the likes of Bix Beiderbecke and Frankie Trumbauer a couple of decades earlier....

OK, keep Secrest and toss the rest. Actually, I was objecting to the song, not necessarily the performers. I listened to Gene Autry on the radio as a kid; never missed a program if I could help it. But there have been so many versions of "Rudolph" by so many performers, and when it's repeated ad infinitum ad nauseam one wishes for something else. Silence will do.

Cohen on the Telephone, et al.

What number do I want? What numbers have you got?

I want you should send a man to mend the damaged shutter-NO I AM NOT SWEARING AT YOU!

I want you should send a man to mend...

I said: I - want - you - should- send - a - man - to - mend...

Not TWO men! ONE man!

Ah, forget it. I'll fix it myself.

Jack Smith 'The Whispering Baritone.'

I know why you whisper, or recite, the lyrics in that annoying sotto voice. Because you can't actually sing!

Uncle Vanya wrote:I want you should send a man to mend the damaged shutter-NO I AM NOT SWEARING AT YOU!

I want you should send a man to mend...

I said: I - want - you - should- send - a - man - to - mend...

Not TWO men! ONE man!

Ah, forget it. I'll fix it myself.

I consider "Cohen at the Telephone" a fun comic skit. I think I'll take out the cylinder and give it a listen as I haven't heard it in some time.

The posts in this thread highlight the fact that tastes in music and comedy are highly subjective. And that's fine! I wish there were more collectors who dislike Edison dance band music. Then there would be all the more hot dance band records for me at give-away prices.


Rocky

Wolfe wrote:

Valecnik wrote:Well for me " The Rosary" and "Snow Deer" on blue amberol come to mind.

Still there seem to be millions of copies out there. Who on earth bought this stuff???

Yes, The Rosary, A Perfect Day, Among My Souvenirs, The Lost Chord, and lots of others in that vain. Break out the Jesse Crawford records or even the Hawaiian stuff, but just those leave those extra dull parlor songs on the shelf.

I once saw somebody pay £28 or so for an 8 inch broadcast disc from the late 20s of a bell solo of the lost chord. I looked through several boxes of broadcasts i'd got a few months back, found it and put it on. I woke up to the runout. somebody spent £26 on that dross...
one man's treasure and all, but damn.

Wolfe wrote:Marlene Dietrich and Rosemary Clooney Too Old The Cut The Mustard.

Must have been a hit, because there's a goodly quantity of that on Columbia 78. Hate it.



Oh, and Glenn Miller In The Mood. Just for being sick of it, and it not even being the best tune in the Miller book, to be so overplayed.

rosemarie clooney's mambo italiano is possibly the most hated 78 for me. just crap, everything about it. Not even alma cogan, probbably my favourite fifties pop singer could make that nonsense sound decent. Most of those mambo songs were pretty bloomin awful actually.

the double bass player on bill hayley's early records really gets on my neres with that clicky clicky click thing he has going on there.