Can you give any details on the "smallish hill & dale disc" you have this one?
Thanks, Glenn ________________________________ From: DanKj <ediso...@verizon.net> To: Antique Phonograph List <phono-l@oldcrank.org> Sent: Mon, March 21, 2011 1:14:43 AM Subject: [Phono-L] Edison drops a title I was playing some cylinders (bought at a show, and sitting ever since in the brown grocery bags I used to pack them) and came across one which struck me as familiar. "The Jass" One-Step, by Eugene Jaudas' orchestra on Edison BA 3228. 'Hmm... why do I know this tune? Nobody else recorded such a title ... wait a second.' I search for Jaudas online (there is little to nothing about him, btw) and hit the same record on online ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVuZXjOk42g ) . Then I remember: I have this on a smallish hill & dale disc ... it's HONG KONG ! Somewhere between it being rejected for disc but approved for cylinder, then prepared for manufacture, somebody mistook the description "Jazz One-Step" or "Jass One-Step" for its title , and dropped HONG KONG completely. I submitted a comment to that effect, on the ootoob page. I wonder if this has happened with other tunes, being issued with wrong title (or no title really, in this case) and not pulled off the shelves. ps - the 1910 Census had him listed as "Judas", but got his father (I assume) correct as Jaudas. I submitted a correction. 128 East 86th St, 40 years old in 1910, born in New York, parents born in Germany and arrived in USA 1863. Married 4 years, no children. Aunt & Mother-in-Law living with them (that must have been fun) , parents in the next apartment in same building. Occupation: Musician. Industry: Phonograph. Out of work in 1909: Zero days. Interesting that his parents were still working at age 71: dad for the NYC Police Dept, mom a professional midwife. _______________________________________________ Phono-L mailing list http://phono-l.oldcrank.org _______________________________________________ Phono-L mailing list http://phono-l.oldcrank.org
