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Artist: Original-Lach-Aufnahme Label:   Beka Country: Germany Catalogue: 30590 / 30469 Date: 1920 Format: 10" Collection:   I Own It     I Want It  Community:    Price Guide: Valuation Page » Search eBay #AD  » Search Amazon #AD This site contains affiliate links for which we may be compensated.

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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A	Original-Lach-Aufnahme	Die mißglückte Jugendzeit		Rate
B	Beka-Orchester	Aus Stahl und Eisen	Otto Rathke	Rate

Notes

Side A (mx 30590) recorded on August 6, 1920.
Lucie Bernardo: Vocal
Otto Rathke: Cornet
Jürg Dargatz: Producer/Engineer

Side A is better known to American audiences as "The Okeh Laughing Record" or British audiences as "The Parlophone Laughing Record"

Side B (mx 30469) recorded on January 30, 1920.
"Made Of Steel and Iron"
Otto Rathke: Conductor

Discographical information makes reference to an issue of these sides numbered B-3727 but these numbers cannot be found anywhere on this disc.

Couldn't find a date for this specific release, so I have used the recording year. If anyone has better information please post it!

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Comments and Reviews

xiphophilos 4th Oct 2015		What I don't get is why this and similar laughing routines were so immensely popular. A similar "laughing record", for example, started the craze for records in China (Pathe 32606, "Joyeux Rires") (http://www.capsnews.org/apn2008-1.htm).
these4578s 29th Sep 2015		Confirmed, this disc is the same performance that was used in the USA for The Okeh Laughing Record.
these4578s 29th Sep 2015		The Odeon recording in your post, W-Be 6731 is a later, electric re-recording made in Berlin between April 3 - 10, 1928 (p. 615), with the performers not identified. Funnily enough, Beka B.6739, mx W-34779 which I'll post shortly, is yet another electrical remake of the original routine, made in Berlin on April 2, 1928 (p.593) - in the very same studio, in the same week! - with Otto Rathke identified. I wonder if they got sick of performing the routine so often! Heaven only knows why they recorded a different version to be released on Odeon, as Odeon and Beka were both part of the Carl Lindström company by that time. Sure, they might want it on different imprints to serve different markets, but why bother with another recording? Just press the same matrix with different labels! I can't find any information about the other Beka version you've posted here at the moment, i'll have to keep looking. As for the record that is the subject of this actual post, I'm 99% sure that it's the same recording that became better known as "The Okeh/Parlophone Laughing Record", but I'll play them both into a computer and line them up in the next day or so and check that out.
xiphophilos 28th Sep 2015		A Side (Lucie Bernardo): Possibly a different recording? The cat. and mx nr. don't agree. Similar: This Beka recording (Nr. 4271, mx 80590) represemts the same comic routine, but allegedly by different performers. The uploader identifies the voices as belonging to a famous duo of Bavarian comedians, Karl Valentin and Liesl Karlstadt, probably erroneously, though.

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