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Faux Fab Four, Part 3--Lucy in the Sky, Uncle Albert
Well, I guess you can still tell it's them. Anyway...What can I say? Some mind-blowing (and, at times, mind-blowingly bad) Beatles fakes, with some of the tracks belonging in the semi-fake or...
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Favorite gospel tracks, Part 7--An Evening Prayer
You'll have to admit that the above LP cover stands out in any genre, including gospel, which has more than its share of unusual jacket images. I posted this at Facebook, where it received the...
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Just the fakes, Ma'am. Enoch Light and His Orch.: "Dragnet" (Prom 1056)
I found this moderately battered 78 in an antique store no longer in existence. It's been at least ten, maybe fifteen, years. I made no attempt to pretty-up the label. I wanted to keep the scan...
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Extra special value--Double Feature--The Music of Today's Films! (Pickwick,...
This is an epic fake. And I just Googled "epic fake" and found out it's an actual phrase. Darn. I hate it when people steal a phrase from me prior to my coming up with it. It's not fair. Anyway,...
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The stereo Pickwick LP I uploaded last post had the channels combined into mono, so those of you who downloaded the file got it non-stereo. I sure don't recall going from stereo to mono when I was...
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The Music of Today's Films!--In stereo, this time
CORRECTED FILE: Love Story-Midnight Cowboy"We're sorry we came up in mono last time"--Jacket models. I am, too. Somehow, my stereo rip of this LP was channel-combined into mono, and the most probable...
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Favorite gospel tracks, Part 8--More shouting, more Smith's Sacred Singers
Hopefully, there aren't any doubled or mismatched tracks in this zip file--I must have uncovered four of them after first assembling the thing. Reason being, while doing this, I split a project into...
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Heath High "On Mike" 1968--or, I Saved $113
At Popsike.com, we learn that this LP sold for $114 in January of last year. Cost me 99 cents at Goodwill (open, but still in shrink wrap), and I almost didn't buy it! But it looked interesting...
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Mixed Bag No. 1--Billy Murray, Ted Weems, The Pickard Family, 1927 polkas
"I love a sailor, the sailor loves me, And sails ev'ry night to my home. He's not a sailor that sails o'er the sea, Or over the wild, briny foam; For he owns an airship and sails on high...." So...
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Mixed Bag No. 2--Harry Harden, Eddie Albert, Country Washburne, Unknown
Work was delayed on today's offering by a wonderful after-summer summer trip to the amazing Greenfield Village and Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan. Didn't get to see much of the Village, but...
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Mixed Bag No. 3--Arkansas Traveler-athon, Barkin' Dog, a 1913 "Aloha Oe," and...
Besides this one, how many essays have started out with, "I was sure I had a year for Polka Bum-Cyk-Cyk"? Few, in all probability. And I was certain I had a year for it, but I guess not. Or I did at...
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The Haunted Victrola is back!! Shivery shellac offerings from 1909-1949!
It occurred to me that all my of my Halloween shellac postings were pre-Vinyl Studio, which means none of them had the proper response curves. So, working like a demon, I pulled twenty-two 78s from...
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Favorite gospel tracks, Part 9--I'll Live in Glory, Sweeter Than All,...
Our series returns, and no time for notes, as I'm getting ready for church... and I have some kind of stomach bug. My low-grade fever has broken, however, so I'm not contagious--I hope. A nice...
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Variety Records: The Nation's Top Hits (1956, I'm presuming)
For some reason, I'm always thinking that Variety was a sub-label of Broadway--and then I remember that it wasn't. Discogs isn't much help. "Profile: US label," it says. Um, yeah. We know.My...
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Wallace Reducing Record, No. 3 and No. 4 (1922)--"One... two! One... two!"
In case anyone wondered when I was going to get around to featuring weight-loss 78s from 1922, today is your lucky day. At a Goodwill where 78s were the last thing I expected, a nice little stack of...
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Favorite Gospel Tracks, Part 10--Phipps Family, London Philharmonic Choir,...
Not much time to write about the tracks--maybe tomorrow. Except to note that Let the Sunshine In is not the Stuart Hamblen song, whose main title is Open Up Your Heart--this Sunshine has an 1895 text...
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Veterans Day 2019--Sounds from 1902 to 1941
Save for the mournful anti-war classic The Trumpeter (J. Francis Burton-J. Airlie Dix, 1904), which I present often at this blog (this is my latest and best rip), these tracks are kind of a happy...
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The rest of my Goodwill haul--Pathe verticals, Waterford High School Wildcat...
A few posts ago, I shared two items from a recent Goodwill haul--two Wallace Reducing Record 78s from a get-thin-to music album of 1922, possibly the first example of its type. Today, the rest of that...
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Kostelanetz-athon! 1934-1952, with bonus Holst and Honegger sides
Well, "Kostelanetz-athon" is less awkward than "Kosty-athon," at least. I think. It's just a blog post, so no biggie... Anyway, Buster mentioned looking forward to hearing the 1938 Kostelanetz sides...
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Favorite Gospel Tracks, Part 11--The Burden Lifters, The Gospel Bells...
At the moment (Saturday evening), I'm re-ripping a few 78s, as I discovered to my amazement that I had connected the lead wires incorrectly on my Stanton 500.V3! I was going to experiment with getting...
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