[SEL] Totally "Off Topic" question.

[Joe Prindle]

No, I am runner up. As soon as I posted that reply, I got an offlist email from Ken Christison  saying it was the Spike Jones rendition of "Chloe". Ken said he had been trying to send a reply to the list with a link to a Youtube video of it, but his emails wouldn't go through. So, Ken gets the kudos and I am in good company as a runner up.
I was a weird kid, which should come as no surprise to those who really know me, and I used to listen to the radio on Tuesday nights when the Dr. Demento show was on. It was there I first heard Spike Jones. I think I was about 13 when I bought a couple of Spike Jones 78's at the Baraboo show flea market. That got me started in collecting 78's and cylinders and the machines that play them. Just like our old engines, the prices of good phonographs with good original horns, have skyrocketed since the early 80's when I got into the hobby. I wish I would not have passed up all the stuff that a $100 dollar bill would once buy, "saying it would never be worth that".
C'est La Vie,
Joe

Joe Prindle
Baraboo, WI USA
"All I ask is the chance to prove that money can't make me happy." Spike Milligan

--- On Thu, 4/22/10, Elden DuRand <edurand at mchsi.com> wrote:


From: Elden DuRand <edurand at mchsi.com>
Subject: Re: [SEL] Totally "Off Topic" question.
To: "The SEL email discussion list" <sel at lists.stationary-engine.com>
Date: Thursday, April 22, 2010, 6:24 PM


Joe:

You are so close, I'll give you the distinction of being the winner.

Actually, it was from the same record by Spike Jones And His City Slickers but it wasn't "My Old Flame" (Sung with a Peter Lorey voice).

The skit was from "Chloe".  I've had the record for decades, the 45 version.  I also use another snippet from the record as the intro sound for my webpage.  .......  "Nightshade's falling ..... KEEEEERASH!".

Geez, that sure wasted bandwidth .......  But it DID bring out some lurkers!    :-)

Take care - Elden
http://www.oldengine.org/members/durand 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: sel-bounces at lists.stationary-engine.com
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>  Behalf Of Joe Prindle
> Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2010 02:23 PM
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> 
> 
> Spike Jones and His City Slickers. I believe it 
> was from their version of the song "My old flame".
> I have the 78 of it on my Wurlitzer 1015.
> Joe
> 
> Sent from my U.S. Cellular® Windows® phone.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve W. <falcon at telenet.net>
> Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2010 8:47 AM
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> <sel at lists.stationary-engine.com>
> Subject: Re: [SEL] Totally "Off Topic" question.
> 
> Elden DuRand wrote:
> > "RINNNNNGGGGGG!
> > 
> > Hello? ......  You don't say?  You don't say?!  
> You don't say!
> > 
> > Who was it?
> > 
> > He didn't say!"
> > 
> > Now, the question of the day is, where did that 
> scene come from?


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