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The Beach Boys - Surfin' Safari

From my collection, this 78 by Ray Starita with Arthur Lally's band is the only straight dance version of Laurel & Hardy's theme song, "Dance of the Cuckoos" by Marvin Hatley that I know of. It's on a British Decca.

Dance Of The Cuckoos

This is a Columbia Viva Tonal 78 I have had for years and just now found again while organizing.  Here is their great version of THE PAYOFF.....

The Payoff

From my collection, a rare Paramount promo disk for $1000 A TOUCHDOWN('39) which starred Joe E. Brown and Martha Raye.  Here she sings the Robin and Rainger tune LOVE WITH A CAPITAL 'U'......

Love With A Capital U

MSG Skinnay Ennis and the 360th Army Services Forces Band aka the Camp Santa Anita Ordnance Training Center Band, perform "Holiday For Strings" taken from a 1943 16" AFRS radio broadcast transcription disc. Digitally Restored by Bob Conrad Copyright © 2013 by Bob Conrad, Fort Lee, NJ 07024, USA - original radio broadcast transcription disc from the collection of Bob Conrad - bob07024@yahoo.com
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Skinnay Ennis - Holiday For Strings

Only this Vitaphone type soundtrack disks survives from Eddie Cantor's very first Paramount short made at the Astoria, NY studios in late 1928.  In it he talks to studio executives about making his first tslkie (ignoring his 1923 DeForest Phonofilm debut I guess).  But until the film is found, this is all we have.  An exteme rarity to be sure!

Eddie Cantor

 Here's a bouncy British Columbia 78 from my collection, recorded by The Masqueraders. It's BANKING ON THE WEATHER.....

Banking On The Weather

Here's the flip side of my Columbia Royal Blue Phil Harris disk, WAS MY FACE RED?

01 Was My Face Red

Here's my British 78 by now forgotten musical star Jack Whiting. He worked on Broadway and i England from the twenties through the fifties, and here is heard singing the title tune from ON YOUR TOES.

01 On Your Toes

Don McLean - Vincent (1971)

Frances Langford was a regular on Bob Hope's radio show as early as 1941; she toured with him and even joined him for the Persian Gulf tour in 1989.  My favorite role, however, was the oh so demure Blanche Bickerson, the nagging wife of long-suffering John Bickerson (Don Ameche).

Once Upon a Wintertime

10am local newscast from Tuesday, December 3rd, 1963.  The Reporter was Richard Hoffman, with Alan Milair announcing.  The clip begins with Elliot Gove ending a segment of the Timekeeper show.

Once Upon a Wintertime

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