Video I made today of my original 78 RPM Spike Jones disc playing. This was only released on HMV in Australia (That's "His Masters Voice" the RCA label for overseas releases) From 1955.
I'll post the flip side of "Disk Jockey's Christmas Eve" later, which is also titled "What Is a Disk Jockey" but was recorded in 1963 and clearly influenced by the Spike Jones disc.
TIB
That's great, Tim, I've never heard that before.
But I immediately notice something you will find interesting...
Radio personality Gary Owens released a 45 titled "What is a Freem?" and it uses all the same words except that instead of saying "disc jockey" he says "Freem."
I played the Gary Owen's "Freem" record on one of the Low Power Hours.
BACK WITH MORE:
Good, there's still time on the clock.
"What Is a Freem?" is included with Low Power Hour No. 99 in a memorial to Gary Owens.
"What is a Freem" was written by and originally recorded by Steve Allen in 1956. GAry did it much later. So much good stuff out there to be discovered!
TIB
Seeing the Steve Allan version spinning on You Tube jogged a single brain cell that somehow escaped deletion... I once knew about the Steve Allan "Freem," but remember forgetting about it.
Hearing it made me wonder if I might have it, so I spent over an hour flipping through two cartons of 45s and found a few other Steve Allan records, but they are all musical... he was a songwriter, composer, musician, singer... there wasn't a talent he didn't have... but no copy of "Freem."
Thanks Tim.
As I said, seeing Tim's link to Steve Allen's original "What Is a Freem" got me looking for a copy that I very distantly recall having had.
Mine turned out not to be a 45 RPM.
It was late at night when a mental picture of an album flashed in my brain.
Today it took me 20-minutes to find it, and here it is
STEVE ALLEN "Freem" is on this album SPIGOT
