Some gotten by hook and crook at the Salvation Army ("last time they were only 45 cents, I don't see why they're more now! Besides, who else would buy them?") some by scavenging that antique store on Hawthorne, and some by bequest of my wonderful grandparents, who sent me home with the most phenomenal set of binders full:
The titles are amazing.
Ed Gallagher/Al Shean: “Positively, Mr. Gallagher?”/”Absolutely, Mr. Shean!” Victor 18941
Moran and Mack: “Two Black Crows Part 1” / “Two Black Crows Part 2” Columbia 935d
This record is pure vintage racist comedy routine. Just...wow.
Charles Ross Taggart: “Uncle Zed buys a Graphophone” / “Uncle Zed and his Fiddle” Columbia a2890
This one's hillbilly racist comedy!
Michael Casey: “Casey as a Doctor” / “Casey at the Dentist’s” Columbia a1886
Oddly hilarious.
Golden and Heins: “Up for Sentence” / “The Colored Recruit” Columbia a2551
Joe Hayman: “Cohen on the Telephone” / Fred Duprez: “Happy tho’ Married” Columbia a1516
"Cohen on the telephone" is Jewish racist comedy...it never ends!
Golden and Marlowe: “Darkey’s Oration on Women” / “The Hospital Patient” Columbia a2235
You have to hear it to believe it.
Margaret Young: “The bad little boys aren’t goody-good (to the goody-good little girls)” / “Counterfeit Bill (from Louisville)” Brunswick 2386
Jesse Crawford: “I wonder what’s become of Sally?” / “The pal that I loved stole the gal that I loved” Victor 19567
Bing Crosby with Fred Waring and the Glee Club: “Whiffenpoof Song” / “Kentucky Babe” Decca 23990
You may (well, I did) remember the Whiffenpoof Song from the Cary Grant/Ginger Rogers comedy "Monkey Business." With Marilyn Monroe in a small roll as a secretary: "Miss Laurel was just showing me her acetates."
Mel Blanc: “Toot, toot, tootsie (good-bye)” / “I’ve got a lovely bunch of coconuts” Capitol 57-780
Too awesome.
Dick “Two Ton” Baker: “Civilization” / “Dancers in Love” Mercury 5067
"Civilization" is fantastic. From the perspective of a native being convinced by a missonary.
Arthur Godfrey: “For me and my gal” / “Too fat polka (I don’t want her)(you can have her)(she’s too fat for me)” Columbia 37921
LOLOL.
Bing Crosby and the Jesters: “Goodbye, my lover, Goodbye” / “Feudin’ and Fightin’” Decca 23975
If you haven't heard "Feudin' and Fightin'," it's priceless. "Grandma, poor ol' Grandma, why'd they have to shoot ol' Grandma?/She Lies 'neath the clovers/Someone caught her bendin' over/pickin' up a daisy"...and it only gets better from there.
Red Ingle and the Natural Seven: “Temptation” / “Cigarettes, Whuskey, and Wild, Wild Women” Capitol 57-722
Art Lund: “Sleepy-time gal” / “Mam’selle” MGM 10011
"Mam'selle" was the recurring instrumental theme in an old movie...I'll let you know when I remember which one. Damn.
Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians: “It’s easier said than done” / “Bei mir bist du schoen” Victor 25739
When I first got "Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen" I listened to it on repeat for probably an hour.
Paul Weston and his Orchestra: “Linda” / “Roses in the Rain” Capitol 362
Intro to Linda: "Hello Cutie, what's your name?" "Fresh! I don't talk to strangers!" "I'm no stranger, I've been waiting every night for you to walk by." "Well you keep waiting, I'll keep walking."
Kay Kyser: “Huggin’ and Chalkin’” / “The old lamplighter” Columbia 37095
"Huggin' and Chalkin'" is an ode to the fat girlfriend..you have to make a chalkmark on her to see where you began!
Len Cleary: “Maple Leaf Rag” / “Twelfth Street Rag” Mercury 5013
You know the Maple Leaf Rag, even if you don't think you do.
“Everything’s at Home except your wife” / “You’re my baby” Climax k400
Hee hee!
Jan Garber: “Making love ukelele style” / “Catalina Bounce” Capitol 57-712
Frank Luther and Zora Layman: “The Gay Nineties part 9” / ‘The Gay Nineties part 10” Decca 2461
That's the 1890's, natch.
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I enjoyed your list of old 78 recordings. I collect 78s. If you are searching for a particular recording, and I have it, I might swap you for the Gallagher and Shean song. Shean's older sister, Minnie, was mother of the Marx Brothers, incidentally. Gallagher and Shean had a hostile relationship, and the comedy team of Smith and Dale had longevity, working together for 70 years. Playwright Neil Simon incorporated the hostility and longevity of the two comedy teams when he created the two, aging comedians in "The Sunshine Boys." Anyway, I like vaudeville, and I am interested in your recording.
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