A Better Cure: A Brief History of the Okeh Laughing Record & Its Progeny, 1904-1946

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Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Hearts & Livers: Global Recordings from 78rpm Discs, ca. 1928-53, Complete Recordings of a 1940s Philadelphia Kef Band, I Was Born a Badass Chick: Greek Music in NYC in the 1940s, Folk Music of Auvergne in Paris, ca. 1927-35, I Wouldn't Sell You to Anyone: Eastern European Immigrant Musics in the U.S., 1917-29, Sure of Surprises: Commercial Recordings of Unaccompanied Captive & Wild Birds from 78rpm Discs, 1913-36 (plus ca. 1949), Everything is Fake: Armenian Folk Music in NYC in the 1940s, Apricot Tree: Soviet-Armenian Music from 78rpm Discs, and 41 more. , and , .

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1.	Henry Klaussen - Laughing Song 01:53		buy track
2.	Amy Augarde, Will Evans, Maurice Farkoa, Fred Moule, Burt Shepard - Laughs You Have Known 03:09		buy track
3.	Okeh Laughing Record 03:10	info	buy track
4.	Rega Dance Orchestra - Jokes: Okeh Laughing Dance Record 02:36	info	buy track
5.	Okeh Laughing Record No. 2: The Singing Lesson 02:39	info	buy track
6.	Okeh Crying Record 02:59		buy track
7.	Sobbing Record 03:05	info	buy track
8.	Contagious Coughs 03:05		buy track
9.	Some Laughs 02:59		buy track
10.	International Comedy Four - Laughing Record 02:53		buy track
11.	Button Buster (free) 03:04		download
12.	Regal Comedy Four - The Laughing Record 03:04		buy track
13.	The Spoiled Cornet Solo 03:14		buy track
14.	Laughing From Life Several People 00:51		buy track
15.	Vlasta Burian - Vlasta Burian v Obrazarne (in the Picture Gallery) 02:06		buy track
16.	Spike Jones & his City Slickers - The Jones Laughing Record (free) 02:42		download

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download includes 1500 words of notes.
Four additional tracks were added July, 2018 that are not included in the notes. Those are tracks 1, 9,10 & 12. We hope to revise the notes to include those performances soon.

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released February 10, 2015

compilation, notes, and sound restoration by Ian Nagoski. Thank you Rich Pell, Steve Shapiro, and Steve Smolian.
Dedicated to the memory of my friends Blaster Al Ackerman and Harley Gaber and my grandfather John Prince "Bud" Leonard.

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