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Happy Fourth!!! 78-rpm Americana from 1901-1927 (with 1944 tossed in)
Happy Fourth! The charming image above comes from around 1900, when child safety was clearly the first thing on everyone's mind. In the 1870s, families put on firework displays in their parlor...
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Ah, the racially sensitive Victorian Era....
A Pears' Soap ad from the May, 1883 issue of the children's magazine, Wide Awake, which I scanned from my copy. Yikes. What can I say? (Besides "Yikes," I mean.)Pears' Soap is still around, but it...
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Voo Doo Magic (1952)--Jimmy Cook and Orch.
Sorry for the late start this Halloween--a number of things have gotten in the way of posting, including an Internet connection that's here one moment and gone the next. Then here, then gone. Then...
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That Hypnotizing Man--Dolly Connolly (1912)
Dolly Connolly was the wife of Percy Wenrich, and her features hardly matched her voice, and vice versa. Here's what she looked like:Meanwhile, she sounded like Marjorie Main (who, like Donnolly,...
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Halloween, Part 3: Buwa-ha-haaaaa!!!
Seven 78s from my collection, all of which fall into a category I call, Buwa-ha-haaaaa!!!The ultimate Buwa-ha-haaaa!!! novelty, Paul Whiteman's recording of AH-HA! (1925) is a Halloween near-perennial...
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The Frankenstein Brothers Present... Halloween Instrumentals, Part One!
I heard a rumor that Halloween is coming. So did the Frankenstein Brothers (pictured above). Don't they look like they're out to avenge someone or something? They have that going-to-the-showdown...
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Males from the Crypt present: Halloween Instrumentals, Part Two!!
From the crypt they crept: Left) Frankie, looking as green as ever; (right) some grave-looking dude in a less hairy state than we last saw him; and (middle) the toothy Brit Braincase III, who has had...
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HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!
Turn the lights down low, huddle closely together on this chilly Halloween night, and quiver with terror as you listen to these MY(P)WHAE classics! Or giggle with amusement (whichever works). These...
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Grofe: Christmas Eve (1934)
Click here to hear: Christmas Eve (Grofe)--Barron Smith, Organ, 1958Lee
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Merry Christmas--Concordia Singing Picture Book
Click here to hear: Merry ChristmasIn a Little Stable/We Wish You a Merry Christmas--Russ David and Barbara BensonSilent Night!/Hear the Church Bells Ring--Russ David and Barbara BensonConcordia...
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John "Santa" Claus presents... Joey the Christmas Choir Boy, Santa's...
Click here to hear: Joey the Christmas Choir Boy, more!Jingle Bells--Art Mooney Orch. and Choir, 1949Frosty the Snow Man--The Sandpipers, Mitchell Miller and Orch., 1951Here Comes Santa Claus--John...
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The Massed Miners Choirs Sing the Carols (1961)
I could have sworn I fixed the glitch in that album scan (lower left-hand section), but looks like I didn't. The lower right-hand corner curled up during the its scan is what happened. An exacting...
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"Another wish that's wished really hard will be heard by you when you play...
If you're still sending out Christmas/holiday/Solstice/Logic'n'Reason Day/Honk If You Love Darwin/Crank-Creche-mas/Newton's Birthday, etc., etc. cards, here are two Hawthorne House Record Cards--Jingle...
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Adventures in cheap-label Christmas EPs: Gilmar Holiday Favorites
I used to know something about Gilmar, but I forgot. Oh, yes--mail order, hit knockoffs. See this excellent blog page: GilmarNo connection to the Gilmar Girls TV series. (Ha-yuk-yuk!) I have...
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Christmas shellac, Part 1!!
Click here to enjoy: Christmas Shellac, Part 1Four Christmas 78s to start off this year's holiday shellac. And doubtless you know which of the zillions of huge, planet-wide December festivals I refer...
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Christmas shellac, Part 2!!
Click here to hear! Christmas Shellac, Part 2People have been asking, "Lee, why don't you put three versions of Parade of the Wooden Soldiers in one post?" "Okay," I replied. "I will." And I have....
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