Episode 3: The Autoharp Episode!
03/15/24 • 76 min
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Don’t feel threatened by the ides of March — pick up an autoharp and play! For this month’s episode, Sean pulls out not one but two autoharp albums from his box of oddities from local record stores.
Show Notes
- McDonald’s Menu Song record
- What Happened to the Winner of McDonald’s $1 Million Flexi-Disc Contest?
- Autoharp for Students and Educators on YouTube
- Tuning Your Autoharp album on YouTube
- Meg Peterson’s blog
- Weird Record Rankings as of Episode 3
- Jo Ann Smith on YouTube
- Tim Crist / Worm Quartet web site
- Kevin Zerbe (artwork designer)
Don’t feel threatened by the ides of March — pick up an autoharp and play! For this month’s episode, Sean pulls out not one but two autoharp albums from his box of oddities from local record stores.
Show Notes
- McDonald’s Menu Song record
- What Happened to the Winner of McDonald’s $1 Million Flexi-Disc Contest?
- Autoharp for Students and Educators on YouTube
- Tuning Your Autoharp album on YouTube
- Meg Peterson’s blog
- Weird Record Rankings as of Episode 3
- Jo Ann Smith on YouTube
- Tim Crist / Worm Quartet web site
- Kevin Zerbe (artwork designer)
Previous Episode
Episode 2: J. J. Newberry Memorial Store Opening Ceremony
Dime stores were quite common for a time, and in this episode of My Weird Record Collection, Sean takes a look at an interesting relic of those times: a ten-inch record containing the audio from a grand reopening of the original J.J. Newberry discount store in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania!
Show Notes:
- J. J. Newberry Memorial Store Opening Ceremony – complete audio on YouTube
- Audio Record – December 1951 issue, with article about Fulton Recording Company
- Weird Record Rankings as of Episode 2
- Kevin Zerbe @ www.zerbinator.com
Next Episode
Episode 4: Hear How to Plan the Perfect Dinner Party
You and your significant other want to invite four friends over for a dinner party, but what do you cook? And how? Lucky for you, food writers Gaynor and Dorothy Maddox have four suggestions for you. Even luckier for you, My Weird Record Collection is providing you with some commentary on Gaynor and Dorothy’s commentary! Whether you want to try Dorothy’s famous steak dinner or treat your friends to a Polynesian wingding, you can’t lose with Episode 4!
SHOW NOTES
- Hear How to Plan the Perfect Dinner Party entry on Discogs.com
- Hear How to Plan the Perfect Dinner Party – entire album on YouTube
- Hear How to Plan the Perfect Dinner Party – entire album on archive.org
- Carlton Album Discography – by Mike Callahan and David Edwards
- Weird Record Rankings as of Episode 4
- WNYC radio broadcast by Gaynor Maddox from 1946
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