Shivery Shellac!!

"Shivery Shellac" is pretty bad, yeah, but "Chilling Shellac" is too much of a tongue twister, so "Shivery Shellac" it ish. I mean, is.

And I could have done a clutching-hand pose with my Giant Eagle monster hand (the store, not the hand type), but I wasn't feeling very Soupy Sales--hence, this more conventional shot. Note the brilliant combination of black furry hand and black shirt in the composition.

Fresh 78 rips, all, with half of them new to the blog. You may wonder what The Milton Berle Polka has to do with Halloween, and I probably would, too, if I thought about it too long. I reckon it's weird in just the right way. Eccentric, Swingin' the Jinx Away, and Eccentric Rag have perfect Halloween titles, while Pharaoh Land and The Man from the South have the perfect Halloween sound. 1922's Dance of the Demon, played by Victor Arden and Phil Ohman, has both, while Dance of the Paper Dolls has neither. It does, however, allow us to hear duo-pianists Arden and Ohman in an electrical recording. Demon was composed in 1888 by Denmark's Eduard Holst (not to be confused with England's Gustav).

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SLAYLIST

ECCENTRIC RAG (Robinson)--Oriole Orchestra, 1924.
ECCENTRIC--Red Nichols and His Five Pennies, 1927.
THE MAN FROM THE SOUTH (Bloom)--Ted Weems O., vocal by Arthur Jarrett, 1929.
PHARAOH LAND--The Original Six, Dir. by George Kelly, 1922.
DANCE OF THE DEMON--Victor Arden-Phil Ohman, piano duet, 1922.
SWINGIN' THE JINX AWAY (Porter)--Frances Langford w. Jimmy Dorsey, 1936.
DANCE OF THE PAPER DOLLS--Arden and Ohman, piano duet, 1929.
THE MILTON BERLE POLKA--The Marlin Sisters, Carroll Lucas Orch., 1949.


Lee