your most unusual recordings

[Guest Bill Barton]

...This reminds me of a truly "dirty" record that was included in a Hustler magazine. Your standard moans and groans, not at all unlike that Yoko Ono track on John Lennon's last album. Not that I was going to keep it, but Mom found that one anyway ...

Or which I used to have years ago (does that count?)

[Christiern]

Just unearthed in a catch-all drawer this single-face, 4-inch 78rpm, made of cardboard (á la Hit Of The Week). Though it is probably hard to find on today's market, and it's message may not be so unusual, you gotta love the title:

[clifford_thornton]

I think you'd have to PM him to get him over here...

[Christiern]

I checked his site and could not find any mention of this release (much less an image). It is not listed in his Durium discography and a search for the catalog number yields nothing. Can you suggest a path to what you saw?

[Christiern]

Thanks.

The catalogue number is the same, 5014, but :backsides are different:

Theirs:

Mine:

Edited October 29, 2007 by Christiern

[Durium]

....FROM UNCLE TOM

Great to learn Rostasi, Clifford and Christien that you know how to find the correct info.

I posted the record label and the spoken text at my Hit of the week blog

There seem to be some confusion about the reverse. Well there are different reverses published. In my paper version of the Durium Advertisement and Custom Records Discography ( I don't have the time to publish all three discographies on the internet within a reasonable time scedule) I wrote about this record: A round 4" promo for the NURSERY RHYME BOOKS (E-5018 till E-5023). Mind that the name DURIUM JUNIOR is printed in capitals, but different then the American DURIUM JUNIOR // On the record nursery rhymes (according to the drawings on the reverse) Sing a Song Of Sixpence / Mary Had a Little Lamb followed by a sales talk for the DURIUM FOR THE YOUNG FOLK Nursery Rhymes Set. There are records with a blank reverse and records with some pictures as on the next series. Also the labels of the two versions seem slightly different. Mind that the name UNCLE TOM was used for Frank Luther on the DURIUM MOTHER GOOSE series and that the series this record refers to is sung by Harry Hemsley. The titles sung on the record are the same as the DURIUM MOTHER GOOSE Part 5 record (5076-B) sung by Uncle Tom.

I printed the part about the different reverses in black , so your copy has one of the reverses from the series. Mind that the 5014 is a promo for the complete series.

The series is:

By HARRY HEMSLEY: Harry Hemsley vo - childlike vo with Novelty Accompany

Recorded London, c 1932

E 5018 C Jack and Jill / Old King Cole / Girls and Boys come out to play - HH vo

DURIUM FOR THE YOUNG FOLKS Part 1 5018

E-5019 A C Ride A Cock Horse / Little Bo-Peep / Hey Diddle Diddle - HH vo

DURIUM FOR THE YOUNG FOLKS Part 4 5019

E-5020 B C Where are You Going To My Pretty Maid / Old Mother Hubbard / Pussy Cat - HH vo

DURIUM FOR THE YOUNG FOLKS Part 5 5020

E-5021 A Little Miss Muffet / Ding Dong Bell / Tom, Tom the Piper's Son - HH vo

DURIUM FOR THE YOUNG FOLKS Part II (sic) 5021

E-5022 B Sing a Song of Sixpence / Pat a Cake - HH vo

DURIUM FOR THE YOUNG FOLKS Part 3 5022

E-5023 A Here We Go Gathering Nuts & May/ Dickory Dock / Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star - HH vo

DURIUM FOR THE YOUNG FOLKS Part 6 5023

These are round 4" records sold in two illustrated envelopes. Each set of three costing 6d. On the reverse of each record pictures to illustrate the songs. // Mind that there exist two records with the matrix E 5023.

Keep swinging

Durium

[Christiern]

Thanks, Durium, for all that information.

Christiern (Chris Albertson)

[MoGrubb]

This is a 1980 Time-Life 33 1/3 RPM promo/sampler. Earl Hines hosts, explains each composition. It's pliable, like a floppy disc.

West End Blues--Louis Armstrong

I'm Comin'--Bix Beiderbecke

Basin Street Blues--Benny Goodman

What A Little Moonlight Can Do--Billie Holiday

Someday Sweetheart--Coleman Hawkins

West End Blues(another)--Louis Armstrong

Edited October 30, 2007 by MoGrubb

[Durium]

Thanks, Durium, for all that information.

Christiern (Chris Albertson)

You're welcome !!

Visit my Hit of the Week web log now and then !

Keep swinging

Durium

[alocispepraluger102]

remiss aloc.

shame shame for not remembering 'human music' with don cherry and jon appleton, a favorite favorite.

[clifford_thornton]

An album with 500 locked grooves by 500 different artists:

How could I forget??

[Christiern]

Tony Schwartz! What a career he had!

He was responsible for the LBJ political ad

with the girl and the daisy as well as doing

some great phonography recordings.

I guess this is a rare recording, Tony gave it to me about 40 years ago:

[rockefeller center]

Tony Schwartz! What a career he had!

He was responsible for the LBJ political ad

with the girl and the daisy as well as doing

some great phonography recordings.

I guess this is a rare recording, Tony gave it to me about 40 years ago:

Do you know if this is the same as Tony Schwartz's "New York 19" (1954, Folkways records)?

Some of the tracks on NY19 are:

Band 1. STREET MUSICIANS / Times Square accordionist, Carnegie Hall fiddler, Moondog

...

Band 4. SOUNDS OF THE CITY / Street driller and comment, 9th avenue "L" and comment

[porcy62]

HUSSEIN - SYMPHONY

Symphony n. 4 in C minor by Youssef Khasho

Rome Opera Theater Orchestra conducted by the composer

Globo Music

With a nice Saddam Hussein painted portrait on front cover.

[Christiern]

Tony Schwartz! What a career he had!

He was responsible for the LBJ political ad

with the girl and the daisy as well as doing

some great phonography recordings.

I guess this is a rare recording, Tony gave it to me about 40 years ago:

Do you know if this is the same as Tony Schwartz's "New York 19" (1954, Folkways records)?

Some of the tracks on NY19 are:

Band 1. STREET MUSICIANS / Times Square accordionist, Carnegie Hall fiddler, Moondog

...

Band 4. SOUNDS OF THE CITY / Street driller and comment, 9th avenue "L" and comment

Same Tony.

[rockefeller center]

Thank you.