James Thurber refers in his memoir to having a 78 comedy record called ‘No News, or: What Killed the Dog," which he and his brother played to death, and it would stay in one ’groove’ if you didn’t nudge the needle. He quoted it as “ate some burnt hoss flesh, ate some burnt hoss flesh, ate some burnt hoss flesh…”
The track is 99% certain to be at Archive.org, though I’m not sure anyone needs to hear it. It’s an anecdote where someone comes back from a trip and asks what’s new, and the only thing the other can think of is that the dog died. Why? Well, he ate some burnt hoss flesh. Where’d he get that? Oh, well, the hoss died when the barn burned down. It did what? Well, it caught a spark from your house… It goes on a bit.
I had a chance to see the exact same phenomenon when I was allowed to try the cylinder machine at a small museum at a college I was visiting, and I put on a 1909 comedy cylinder called “Uncle Josh at the Bug House” (which is also at Archive), and it was worn to the same degree. I had to keep a finger on the needle to hear more than a little less than a second of it.
James Thurber refers in his memoir to having a 78 comedy record called ‘No News, or: What Killed the Dog," which he and his brother played to death, and it would stay in one ’groove’ if you didn’t nudge the needle. He quoted it as “ate some burnt hoss flesh, ate some burnt hoss flesh, ate some burnt hoss flesh…”
The track is 99% certain to be at Archive.org, though I’m not sure anyone needs to hear it. It’s an anecdote where someone comes back from a trip and asks what’s new, and the only thing the other can think of is that the dog died. Why? Well, he ate some burnt hoss flesh. Where’d he get that? Oh, well, the hoss died when the barn burned down. It did what? Well, it caught a spark from your house… It goes on a bit.
I had a chance to see the exact same phenomenon when I was allowed to try the cylinder machine at a small museum at a college I was visiting, and I put on a 1909 comedy cylinder called “Uncle Josh at the Bug House” (which is also at Archive), and it was worn to the same degree. I had to keep a finger on the needle to hear more than a little less than a second of it.