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Re: [ARSCLIST] blooper samples?
Matthew Barton wrote:
The Uncle Don recording on the Kermit Schaefer album described here is is a staging of something that never happened
Indeed, real airchecks of Uncle Don (who was on network radio right up
until the late 1940s) show him has having a high tenor voice and a
playful demeanor, where as the Schaefer fabrication has a rather pompous
bass voice, and way too many overtones for the alleged period.
Be warned, the Jones and Hare material on Schaefer's album is also
faked. The impostors sing off-key(!) without their piano accompaniment,
and proceed to do name automobiles whose names begin with specific
letters until the alleged Jones informs the alleged Hare that "No car
starts with P(ee)". This is alleged to have taken place in the late
1920s, when Packards and Pierce-Arrows could certainly be had, and by
the 1930s we had Pontiacs as well...
As for the football sportscaster inviting his audience to witness the
spectacle of the son-of-a-so-and-so running, Schaefer has an obvious
fake on one collection, but an equally obvious genuine broadcast
recording on another. Same for a baseball sportscaster reporting on a
presumably home team outfielder heading back for a high fly, only the
SOB drops the ball with three men on and two outs.
Michael Shoshani
Chicago