The old record box Smartaleck
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The following program is distributed by the national educational radio network.
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The old record box.
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This program consists primarily of selections played from cylinder records
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Edison frequently called talking machine. These
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records were issued in a period extending from the late 1890s to
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1929.
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Your host is a red herring.
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You're welcome to join the party beside the phonograph and listen to some
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smart alec stuff. At the turn of the century transportation was
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still a problem. Metropolitan areas where there are entertainment centers
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where beyond the reach of most of the nation's population no movies no
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radio no TV no bowed out and Repertory Theatre
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reached only a small segment of society. But the phonograph brought
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all kinds of vocal and instrumental selections into the most
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remote households. Heading the last we place Cal
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Stuart often called Fatty Stuart. But the phone a scope
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a trade magazine of November 1898 said. Kalle
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Stuart is the most popular man among his fellow artists and we know of no
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one who gets a better word from all this versatile man
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is best remembered for his many hilarious Uncle Josh monologues.
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Done it yet and
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and and won and we won and here we
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are rounding up and running
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and
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anchoring but in order
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for I had been born and I
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ran and
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I didn't.
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And thanks and
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thanks for anything.
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Well for no man
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and I don't write it and say and then and there are
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not. I got out the book and I've already
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read. I never said I had the right
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turn that right. I
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said the colonel was ready.
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In that kind of yes.
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And you were right. I
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went in all for it. And then I
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pretty well until it got
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water yet. And really.
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Well I read already Frank and
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when I said I had said
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yes.
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And then Aaron that
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thing that I read it
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and read over and over and I and
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I were never really read and I never want to find
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that you were really were right and it would
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read man and it sounded like you were wrong.
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Now that we went through ramp when we fear enshrouded on fire and
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I Manish I don't wanna turn right. Well that didn't help matters any
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more if you don't want to know where I am at or down until now.
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One sided Robert break then started all through. Yeah I think your rant here
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and feel for you when I can and then run into a tank.
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That's all I remember now all I've got to show we're not your I read your
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brother and I think that Robert Frost to random walk in our
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forum Nancy said it well yeah I don't want where you're at right
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here on it and I say in my mind I'm getting a feeling
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that oh my you are right there will be no I mean do you
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want you know.
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Steve did a number of Irish dialect pieces Berettas and it was
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sad. Always had an angle for himself
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and I do well to a man as a result of an invention. The particle my hearing
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aid. Flanagan was probably his most famous character creation.
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Writer you might be right on.
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Byron Harlan was primarily a singer. But here is paired with
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Frank Stanley who was getting quite a reputation in 1898.
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This is a dialogue I don't like the temple floor you.
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Are on. Why
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am I going to write it.
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Why do I want to
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thank you and I think you are right. I go
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out.
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Or are you.
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There are
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never
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far off.
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Harlan and Porter joined in the song about farm life as might be
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imagined but probably never was.
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And Uncle Jasper.
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Oh.
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Right.
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Right.
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