Tuesday, May 20, 2014

Transcription Mystery Disc #214

This is a red Wilcox Gay Recordio. It's 8-inches in diameter, spins at 78 rpm and has a metal core. There is some damage to the outermost grooves but the audio cleans up in about 30 seconds. The disc is unlabeled and comes from that mystery stack I connect to WIP-AM in the mid 1940s.

The opening song starts with the lyrics "When I was union, handsome and only 17."  The rest of the song continues as you might expect. This could either be a long lost Union organizer song or a long lost Civil war Union army song. The basic gist is that union guys get all the babes. (I've heard the same thing.)

When I was Union


It's followed by a recording of a crooned version of "Let The Rest Of The World Go By."  The singer appears to be Gene Autry, and the narrator is "Gary".   The song isn't a part of a program, it's a part of an advertisement for Doublemint Gum.  The program is probably Gene Autry's Melody Ranch which was sponsored by Wrigley's.

2 comments:

  1. That ones pretty cool!
    But not why I'm commenting.
    You might be interested in this. I assume you have a dropbox.com account?.. If you copy the share link for your mp3 from your dropbox and paste that link into the box at boomp3.com, it gives you a code to paste in the html of your blog - which puts a little mp3player on the page. -- I put 3 of the players in my blog and they work fine. You can see what they look like on my page: http://part15lab.blogspot.com/
    (I have it down on the page some)

    By the way, boomp3.com is not something you join, you dont sign up or anything.. you just past the link in the box and copy the code.
    They are tiny players but it works perfect.

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  2. Neato.
    I'll give that a go next time. Thanks!!!

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