No Artist - G.S. Parody

This is a custom record released 1965, It is not known how or to whom the record was targeted to, the song relates to the policies of the then President LBJ, and how his policies were affecting the country, sounds familiar. 

I first came across this record on WFMU 365 Days Project.

It's the first Hook Road Arena Boot Sale of the year today, there was quite lot of rain on Friday with some more rain on Saturday, the Arena is on clay soil and does not drain well or quickly in previous years when the early Boot Sales went ahead after rain many of the cars had to be towed out of the site.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jD8-3alMjh8

Additional Memory

 

The new memory hub arrived earlier this week, the 8TB drive is with Samsung for repairs, hopefully it will be back next week or two, I have downloaded over 200,000 tracks from the original drives, two drives was blank, the tacks were over 3 drives.

I have got out one of the boxes of CD's and started loading them on to the PC, a number are on the PC I used to save everything at 192kbps now I save them at 320kbps, the reason I saved them at 192kbps was a long gone site called 'Grumpy's Golden Oldies' often there would be requests, towards the end it became a general request site with people requesting tracks people that had the track would provide it, on Sunday at the Hook Road Boot Sale I found a Procol Harum single, I went to the PC to upload some of the records and there on Grumpy's wants list was the Procol Harum record I had just brought, I started the' Lord Of The Boot Sale' blog shortly before the demise of 'Grumpy's Golden Oldies'. When I stated the blog I was after a title like 'Worlds Worst Records' but that title was already taken, the person running it had a much better collection of that type of record than I did, for a couple of years he had a radio show once a week on WFMU, I think the shows are still in the archive, The Worlds Worst Records Blog was taken down a couple of months ago, I am not sure if it was voluntary or forced there had been no new posts for sometime, the names of closed blogs are released for reuse after 7 years.

To download the CD's I am using an old Samsung free standing CD/DVD drive dating back to the times when PC's only had a CD drive, later they would add a second separate DVD drive and later the drives would be combined.

Pinky & Perky - Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavour On The Bedpost Overnight

Released 1959 and unusual for a UK released 45 some came in a Picture Sleeve, the arrangement of the song is taken direct from the Lonnie Donegan version including the jokes, in the introduction it is Perky who is snoring, to distinguish the puppets in TV's black & white days Perky always wore a hat, in more than one quiz this has come out as a queston, one young team had no idea who Pinky & Perky were.

Pinky & Perky ~ Does your chewing gum lose its flavour ~ 1959

Memory Failure

 

For some time I have been backing up all my music to an 8TB SSD drive, prior to this all my music was backed up to a pair of 4TB disc drives, I recently acquired some additional external memory and was backing up the data as I had realised that if the SSD was lost, stolen or failed I would lose all the data. half way through the transfer the SSD drive failed, the drive was still under warranty eventually after much correspondence has been sent for repair and will be returned with no data, I think the additional memory caused the problem so I have not used it since and will probably bin it, as a stopgap I brought a 20TB HDD drive and was going to buy a 16TB SSD drive unfortunately for me the SSD drive was out of stock.

I have a new connecting cable for the original drive on order and will transfer the data to the new back up memory, when I was doing the original transfer their was too much data to transfer in one go I was transferring it in blocks and was thinking shall I delete the block once I had transferd it luckily I decided not to delete once transferd.

Billy Jones & Ernest Hare - Does The Spearmint Lose Its Flavour On the Bedpost Overnight

The original of 'Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavor On The Bedpost Overnight, released 1924, I do not know if this record had a UK release, Spearmint was a registered trade mark this would have possibly restricted the playing on BBC radio, in the 1950's Lonnie Donigan changed it to  chewing gum.

In the early 1960's 78rpm records were common at jumble sales, I lived in Hampton, Middlesex until I was 21, their was a Farther and Son who went to all the Jumble Sales and brought all the 78's, their front room was floor to ceiling shelves full of 78's, in those days 45's were rare items at Jumble Sales/Junk shops but there were three that regulary turned up, the first was Lonnie Donnegan - Does Your Chewing Gum Loose It's Flavour On The Bedpost Over Night, the other records were Nina & Fredrick - Listen To The Ocean and Peter Sellers & Sophia Loren - Goodness Gracious Me, I have not seen a copy of these three records for many years.

I have in my collection two Lonnie Donigan vinyl 78's produced by Pye, these seen to be a bit of an oddity as when they were issued the people who brought 78's tended to have older record players that used traditional gramaphone needles, playing a vinyl record would destroy the record, people who had moden record players would buy the recording on a 45, Top Rank also produced vinyl 78's, these did not sell well and most ended up on Market Stalls being sold of cheap.

Billy Jones & Ernest Hare - Does the Spearmint Lose Its Flavor on the Bedpost Overnight 1924

Hermione Gingold - Does Your Chewing Gum Lose It's Flavour

 

Released 3rd March 1967in the UK,  Hermione Gingold was 69 when she made this record, she had a previous UK record release in 1955 and a second American release in 1967 with Someting Stupid.

Hermione Gingold 'Does Your Chewing Gum Lose It's Flavour'

Here is the second American release from 1967, no one has yet posted a copy on 45Cat.

Hermione Gingold : Something Stupid

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