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Artist: Charles Hart And Shannon Four Label:   Victor Country: USA Catalogue: 18455 Date: May 1918 Format: 10" Collection:   I Own It     I Want It  Community:  2 Own Price Guide: Valuation Page » Search on eBay This is an affiliate link for which we may be compensated.

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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A	Charles Hart And Shannon Four	The Last Long Mile	Emil Breitenfeld	Rate
B	Billy Murray	K-K-K-Katy (The Stammering Song)	Geoffrey O'Hara	Rate

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A: Tenor with male quartet and orchestra | B: Comic song with orchestra
A: Plattsburg marching song, 1917 (from "Toot! Toot!") | B: Stammering song

A mx: B-21474, take 5; recorded Camden, NJ, March 5, 1918.
A mx: B-21474, take 9; recorded Camden, NJ, April 12, 1918 (used on represses).
B mx: B-21479, take 4; recorded Camden, NJ, March 8, 1918.
Cutout date: 1926.
(DAHR)

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xiphophilos 21st Jan 2019		Uploaded 1918-1923 Batwing Label without price note, but still with 1903, 1904, 1905, and 1908 patent dates. This repress already has replaced the original take 5 with take 9 on the A side.
slholzer 31st Jan 2017		I've added the month of the original release. It's from John Bolig's Victor Black Label Discography, 18000/19000 Series. Before the original issue even hit the stores, however, the "Long Last Mile" side was re-made on April 12, 1918. Before the year was over, the remade version (take 9) supplanted the original (take 5). Per Bolig, the Shannon Four was the same on both versions: Tenors Charles Hart and Lewis James, baritone Elliott Shaw, and bass Wilfred Glenn.
BigBadBluesMan 25th Jan 2015		Verse: Oh, they put me in the army and they handed me a pack, They took away my nice new clothes and dolled me up in kack; They marched me twenty miles a day to fit me for the war, I didn’t mind the first nine-teen but the last one made me sore. CHORUS: Oh, it’s not the pack that you carry on your back, Nor the Springfield on your shoulder, Nor the five inch crust of Clinton County dust That makes you feel your limbs are growing older, And it’s not the hike on the hard turnpike, That wipes away your smile, Nor the socks of sisters that raise the blooming blisters, It’s the last long mile. Verse: Some day they’ll send us over and they’ll put us in a trench, Takin’ pot shots at the Fritzes with the Tommies and the French, And some day we’ll be marching through a town across the Rhine, And then you bet we’ll all forget these mournful words of mine: CHORUS repeated.
BigBadBluesMan 25th Jan 2015

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