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Don Charles presents THE SINGING DOGS directed by CARL WEISMANN with instrumental accompaniment.Carl Weismann – Danish legendary pioneer bird voice recording engineer, working for the Danish State Radio in Copenhagen – HATED dogs! Yeah, well – he hated their barking spoiling every other of his recordings of singing birds – he became a master in cutting them out of his bird tapes – in those days – the 50ies – there was no other way to do it than with a pair of scissors! So he ended up with two piles of tapes – one with bird voices and one with dog voices. The dogs really were doomed to be thrown out – but then Carl got an idea! He cut together a tape of various toned dog barks set to the music of ‘Jingle Bells’. He had no further intentions, than it might be fun for a Danish children radio show. HOW it in 1955 ended up on a 45 rpm with 3 other tunes ‘Patty Cake’, ‘Three Blind Mice’ and ‘Oh Susanna’ as a four-tune medley – I simply don’t know. But the disc was released by RCA in USA and sold 500.000 copies. Release in Britain around the same time was on Pye-Nixa label, on a 78 rpm disc.In Sweden it has been seen on the Metronome label. Howard Smith, host of a four-hour talk-music show over WABC-New York FM outlet, WPLJ who liked to play anything weird or new on his program first started playing the original 45 rpm disc at Christmas 1970.

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