DESCRIPTION:
Shellac records were always fragile and easily damaged especially by the heavy sound box with the steel needle.
If this happened the needle got stuck and kept repeating itself until you move the tonearm further along.
This problem inspired lyric writers and composers to play a practical joke with the gramophone listeners as you can hear in the following two recordings !



The Broken Record
(Friend - Tobias - Bunch)
Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians
with vocal chorus by
Carmen Lombardo - F.Higman - L.Owen,
His Masters Voice BD 5025 - OA 98429-1
New York, December 14, 1935.

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The Broken Record.
(Friend-Tobias-Bunch).
Mae Questal, "The Betty Boop Girl" - vocal,
with Orchestral Accomp.
Decca F 5899 - 60317 A.
New York, January 8, 1936


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