78 RPM - Arthur Godfrey - Too Fat Polka (I Don't Want Her) (You Can Have Her) (She's Too Fat For Me) / For Me And My Gal - Columbia - USA

78 RPM Record

Artist:	Arthur Godfrey
Label:	Columbia
Country:	USA
Catalogue:	37921
Date:	29 Sep 1947
Format:	10"
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	25 Own
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Track	Artist	Title	Composer	Rating
A	Arthur Godfrey	Too Fat Polka (I Don't Want Her) (You Can Have Her) (She's Too Fat For Me)	MacLean, Richardson	10.0 Rate
B	Arthur Godfrey	For Me And My Gal	Leslie, Goetz, Meyer	6.0 Rate

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Orchestra under the direction of Archie Bleyer

BB Sep 20, 1947 Advance Record Releases
BB Oct 18, 1947 review

Side B: From "For Me And My Gal".

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W.B.lbl ● 2nd Jun 2021		Later Bridgeport pressings were also witness to change in the text below the 'COLUMBIA' logohead on top, as evidenced here.



edlongus SUBS 2nd Jun 2021		My image of "Too Fat Polka" (1466416) is hidden, but it is still a label variant of the Kings Mill pressing that LaurenceD submitted (433647), because the 2 lines of text under the Columbia logo are not as wide as the Columbia logo itself. LaurenceD's flip side clearly shows the smaller text, like my flip side, but both his images are clearer than mines!! Still, my "Too Fat Polka" should be unhidden until someone comes along with a better photo/scan of it... ☺ [edit: agreed and unhidden - LD]



W.B.lbl ● 5th Oct 2017		This was essentially to this era, what Joe Tex' "Ain't Gonna Bump No More (With No Big Fat Woman)" would be about three decades later . . .



chippe01 3rd Jul 2016		I've had this 78 for many years, since I was a child (I'm now 53) I always loved this song, but it played pretty lousy. However, since I bought a new turntable and a dedicated mono 78 cartridge, it sounds 100 times better than I remember. Lots of ticks, but pretty clear throughout. I LOVE this song. SOOO politically incorrect in this day and age - that's what makes it even better! :)



BigBadBluesMan 4th Apr 2015



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Whyperion SUBS 23rd Dec 2013		Wondered where Chas 'n' Dave got their little medley infill from. I doubt that Arthur Godfrey's was the original version, probably doing music hall rounds before 1948.



W.B.lbl ● 1st Dec 2013		The second set of labels {Images #433647 & 433648} is from Kings Mills, OH. Bridgeport, CT pressings had the A side subtitles divided amongst two lines rather than three, orchestra director credit set in 8 point Erbar Bold Condensed (as opposed to 7 point Gothic No. 4 here), matrix numbers set in 7 point Gothic No. 4 (rather than No. 1 on this set), and cat. # set in 14 point Gothic Condensed No. 1 (instead of 14 point Erbar Bold Condensed as seen here). There were also no spaces in-between hyphens and songwriter names, and Godfrey's name was slightly more open-spaced. Despite Kings Mills' using many Bridgeport fonts, I can spot the differences a mile away.

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Canada - Columbia - 1947