PhonoLyrics

Phonograph
and Record References in Recorded Music
Discography of PhonoLyrics
Au
Claire de la Lune by The Highwaymen,
1991
The
Broken Record - Novelty Fox Trot
The B.B.C. Dance Orchestra, 1936
Get
Out Those Old Records sung by Carmen Lombardo, 1950
I
am the Edison Phonograph! by Len Spencer, 1906
I
Love Rock 'n Roll by Joan Jett & the Blackhearts,
1982
Into
the Groove, by Madonna, 1987
Just
Can't Get Enough by The Saturdays, 2009
Just
Dance by Lady GaGa, 2008
Let's
Have A Song Upon the Gramophone,
by Billy Williams, 1911
"No
News," or "What Killed the Dog" by Nat
M. Wills, 1908
The
Phonograph by Istituto Barlumen, 2008
Phonograph
by Jesca Hoop, 2004
Phonograph
by The Magpies, 2008
Phonograph
by Stateside, 2004
Phonograph
by Steven Clotzman, 2007
Phonograph
Blues by Robert Johnson, 1936
Phonograph
Blues by Vassar Clements, 2004
The
Phonograph Song (Our Melody)
by
Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians, 1956
Phonography
by Britney Spears, 2018
The
Record Player Song, by Daisy the Great, 2014
(The)
Rock and Roll Star by Kay Starr, 1955
Spin
the Black Circle by Pearl Jam, 1994
That's
What Makes the Jukebox Play by Moe Bandy, 1978
They
All Laughed, by Ella Fitzgerald, 1938
They
All Laughed, by Ginger Rogers, 1937
Turntable,
Grace Potter & The Nocturnals, 2012
Uncle
Josh Buys a Victrola, By Cal Stewart, 1919
Watching
You Watch Him, by Eric Hutchinson, 2012
Phonograph
Blues by Robert Johnson
Album: "Robert Johnson
- The Complete Recordings"
Recording 1 of 5 sessions,
November 23, 1936, San Antonio, Texas
Lyrics: "Beatrice,
she got a phonograph and it won't say a lonesome word..."
"Beatrice, I love
my phonograph, but you have broke my windin' chain"

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Phonograph
by Steven Clotzman
Album: "My American
Song"
© 2007 Steven Clotzman
Lyrics: "Let's dust
off the old man's Phonograph We'll listen to a Berlin song..."

Phonograph
by Stateside
Album: Phonograph
Original Release Date:
April 20, 2004
Lyrics: "Phonograph,
Can you help me get it back,
Can you can you Phonograph,
when the needle hits the black
Will you help me through....
Come on little record,
play
Show me somethin' new
Words"

Phonograph
by The Magpies
Album: The Magpies -
Eastern Standard Time
Original Release Date:
May 7, 2008
Copyright: 2008 Whiskeyhounds
Records
Lyrics: "My love
lives in a Phonograph, she's got a voice that'll make any man go mad..."

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Into
the Groove by
Madonna
Album: You can dance
Original Release Date:
November 17, 1987
Label: Sire/Warner Bros.
Lyrics: "And you
can dance
For inspiration
Come on I'm waiting
Chorus: Get into
the groove
Boy you've got to prove
Your love to me, yeah
Get up on your feet,
yeah
Step to the beat
Boy what will it be"

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- MUSIC VIDEO
Phonograph
by Jesca Hoop
Album: Not released -
Recorded at KCRW Session 12-02-2004
Lyrics: "i fell
in love
with a brilliant boy
i gave him my heart
while he captured
my voice
he carried across the
sea
how did he tangibly
turn a needle crank
the cylinder round
until we meet again...
all i have to keep
me sane is my phonograph"

I
am the Edison Phonograph!
Edison Advertising Record,
recorded by Len Spencer in 1906

Lyrics: "I am
the Edison Phonograph!
Created by the Great
Wizard of the New World to delight those who would have melody
or be amused..."

The Phonograph 1905
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Just
Dance by Lady GaGa
Album: The Fame
Original Release Date:
October 28, 2008
Label: Streamline/Interscoope/KonLive/Cherrytree
This 2008 ode to disco
includes declarations of the love for the record and its spinning
on the turntable:
Lyrics: "Just dance,
spin that record baby... I love this record baby, but I can't
see straight anymore...... Just dance, spin that record babe,
da da doo-doo-mmm"

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Au
Claire de la Lune by The Highwaymen
Album: The Highwaymen
Released November 30,
1991
Although this song doesn't
specifically reference the phonograph, it is included here to celebrate
the first audio recording of any voice or any song,
when the first line of Au clair de la lune was recorded by
Édouard-Léon Scott on his Phonautograph on April 9, 1860.

LISTEN
"No
News," or "What Killed the Dog"
by Nat M. Wills
Victor 78 RPM - 17222-A
Victor 5612 recorded
on October 14, 1908

LISTEN
(Courtesy of Tim Gracyk)
Phonographia connection
is James Thurber using this record in connection with a "broken
record" in his book "My Life and Hard Times."
Father was usually in
bed by nine-thirty and up again by ten-thirty to protest bitterly
against a Victrola record we three boys were in the habit of playing
over and over, namely, “No News, or What Killed the Dog,” a recitation
by Nat Wills. The record had been played so many times that its grooves
were deeply cut and the needle often kept revolving in the same groove,
repeating over and over the same words. Thus: “ate some burnt hoss
flesh, ate some burnt hoss flesh, ate some burnt hoss flesh.” It was
this reiteration that generally got father out of bed.
My Life and Hard Times,
James Thurber, 1933
"The
Broken Record - Novelty Fox Trot"
Columbia 78 RPM - FE
1288
Recorded January 7, 1936

LISTEN
(Courtesy of Eighth Floor
of Jan's 78 RPM Record Warehouse)
My Sweetheart,
you’re gorgeous, you’re
gorgeous, your gorgeous, your gorgeous, your gorgeous, your gorgeous
tonight
That’s the song I heard
on the phonograph The needle caught on the broken half And kept playing
And saying
My Sweetheart, I kiss
you, I kiss you, I kiss you, I kiss you, I kiss you, I kiss you tonight…
The broken record played
on and then, The broken record started again,
My Sweetheart, I love
you, I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you, I love you I
do…
Get
Out Those Old Records sung by Carmen
Lombardo
Album: Guy Lombardo's
Royal Canadians
Original Release Date:
Nov 7, 1950
Label: Jasmine
This song is a true tribute
to the memories of playing phonograph records, written by one of the
Lombardo brothers.
"Get out those old
records
Those old phonograph
records
The ones we used to play
so long ago
What if they sound scratchy
The tunes they really
were catchy
Remember when you used
to love them
so I had to play them
over and over..."

LISTEN
The
Phonograph Song (Our Melody)
Played
by Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians, 1956
Capitol Records
LISTEN
to Guy Lombarbo and His Royal Canadians play "The Phonograph
Song"
"Play
that Tune Phonograph Phonograph
Play
that Tune Phonograph Phonograph
Play
that Tune Phonograph Phonograph
Play Our Melody"
...We were dancing
to this happy melody
When we fell in love...

They
All Laughed
Artist: Ginger Rogers
Album: Fred Astaire and
Ginger Rogers at RKO
Original Release Date:
1937 with the release of the movie "Shall we Dance?"
Lyrics: "They all laughed
when Edison recorded sound"

They
All Laughed by Ella Fitzgerald
Album: Ella Fitgerald
sings the George and Ira Gershwin Song Book
Original Release Date:
May 19, 1998
Label: Verve Records
Lyrics: "They all
laughed when Edison recorded sound"

Listen
to how "the worm had turned"
(The)
Rock and Roll Star by
Kay Starr
Released as Single December
1955
Format: 45 RPM, 78 RPM
Label: RCA Victor
Lyrics:
"There in the night what a wonderful
scene
Mom was dancing with
Dad to my record machine"

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I Love Rock 'n
Roll by Joan Jett & The Blackhearts
Released 1982
Format: Vinyl, 7", Single
Label: The Boardwalk
Entertainment Co.
Lyrics: "I saw him dancin'
there by the record machine."

Watching
You Watch Him by
Eric Hutchinson
In his music video Hutchinson's
Phonographia connections are the record player images and the lyrics
related to his love that plays like a "broken record."



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The
Phonograph by
Istituto Barlumen
Album: The Phonograph
was based on Edison advertising record " I am the Edison Phonograph",
by Len Spencer, 1906
Original Release Date:
January 21, 2008
Label: Barlumen Records
Lyrics: "And the Phonograph
spoke from beside the fireplace..."

Spin
the Black Circle by Pearl Jam
Released as Single November
8, 1994
Format: 45 RPM
Label: Epic
Songwriter(s) Eddie Vedder,
Stone Gossard
"According to Eddie
Vedder, "Spin the Black Circle" is about his and the band's love for
vinyl records. At the band's July 1, 2003 show in Bristow, Virginia
at the Nissan Pavilion, Vedder proclaimed "This song is about old
records, old records, anyone remember old records?" (6) - Wikipedia
Footnote (6) from Wikipedia:
"Vedder, Eddie. (Speaker). (2003). 7/1/03, Nissan Pavilion, Bristow,
Virginia. [Audio Recording]. Epic."
Jon Pareles of The New
York Times referred to "Spin the Black Circle" as "one of the
few songs from Seattle in which a needle has nothing to do with heroin."[7]
Footnote (7) from Wikipedia:
Pareles, Jon. "RECORDINGS VIEW; Pearl Jam Gives Voice To Sisyphus".
The New York Times. December 4, 1994. Retrieved on December 13, 2007.

LISTEN
(Provided to YouTube by Sony Music Entertainment)
Lyrics:
"See this needle
Oh see my hand
Drop, drop, dropping it
down
oh so gently
here it comes
touch the flame
Turn me up
won't turn you away
Spin, spin
spin the black circle
Spin, spin
spin the black, spin the
black
Spin, spin
spin the black circle
Spin, spin
whoa
Pull it out
a paper sleeve
Oh my joy
only you deserve conceit
Oh I'm so big
and my whole world
I'd rather you
rather you, than her
Turntable
by Grace Potter & The Nocturnals
Album: The Lion The Beast
The Beat
The hook line is "I
will be your record, you will be my turntable"

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Just
Can't Get Enough by The Saturdays
Album: Single
Original Physical Release
Date: March 2, 2009
Label: Polydor

Music
Video "Just Can't Get Enough"
Phonography
by Britney Spears
Album: Circus - Deluxe
Edition included bonus track "Phonography"
Release Date: December
2, 2008
Leave it to Britney to
redefine the Isaac Pitman Shorthand system of Phonography
(first introduced in 1837) to phone-(porn)-ography (i.e., phone
sex) in 2008.


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Phonograph
Blues by Vassar
Clements
Album: Livin' with the
Blues
Recording based on Robert
Johnson's "Phonograph Blues"
"Beatrice, she
got a phonograph and it won't say a lonesome word..."

That's
What Makes the Jukebox Play by
Moe Bandy, 1978
Album: Soft Lights
and Hard Country Music
I just spent my last
nickel tryin' to drive my tears away
Tryin' to mend a broken
heart that you once led astray
I know life is funny,
this old world is built that way
So many disappointments,
that's what makes the jukebox play ...
All kinds of people
make this world, that's what makes the jukebox play.

The
Record Player Song by Daisy the Great

The Record Player
Song, 2014
Daisy the Great, Produced
by Paper Moon Records
Album: I’ve Got a
Few Friends and I Wish They Were Mine
[Chorus]
I’ve got a record
player that was made in 2014
Dyed my hair blue it
came out a seasick sort of green
I like vintage dresses
when they fall just below my knees
I pretend I scraped them
climbing in the trees
Sometimes I think all
I’m ever doing is, (trees)
Trying to convince myself
I’m alive (trees)
Sometimes I think all
I’m ever doing is, (trees)
Trying to convince myself
I’m alive (trees)
LISTEN
Let's
Have a Song Upon the Gramophone by
Billy Williams

LISTEN
LET’S HAVE A SONG
UPON THE GRAMOPHONE
They were having a merry
party in the dear old Hall
Everybody sang with all
their might
Songs that were new when
the old were too
It was a very merry Christmas
night
Dear old Grandad seated
in the corner
Shouted in a manner rather
strange
I say Hannah, stop the
old piana
I'll tell you what to
do now for a change.
Chorus: Let's have a
song upon the gramophone
That Billy Williams sings
so grand
With his 'Save a little
one for me' and 'Tommy get your gun'
And 'Let's all go down
the Strand and have a tomater'
John put your trousers
on, we're waiting for a girl
And it jolly well serves
you right
'Oh tickle me, Timothy,'
said Jean from Aberdeen
''Cos I must go home
tonight.'
They went out of the
room for supper, left a nice girl there
Her head reclining on
a fellow's chest
He squeezed her glove,
she was full of love
Counting all the pretty
buttons on his vest
He said 'Darling, won't
you call me baby?'
And went and turned the
gas down rather low
He said 'Maudy, don't
you love your Claudy?
So let us have a cuddle'
She said 'No.'
Chorus:
Performed by Billy Williams
(1877-1915)
For additional details
see "Let’s
Have A Song Upon The Gramophone [Homophone, Graphophone, Pathéphone,
Phonograph]" (depending on what label the recording was being
made for). Courtesy of the website Bless
’Em All: The Songs of Fred Godfrey
Uncle
Josh Buys a Victrola by Cal Stewart
Victor Talking Machine
Co., 18793-A, 1919
In 1919 Cal Stewart as
Uncle Josh Weathersby was confused about how a talking machine worked
when his Victor record "Uncle Josh Buys a Victrola" recounted
his first experience with his new talking machine.
.

Courtesy of Tim Gracyk
Victor matrix B-23118
August 11, 1919 (DAHR)
LISTEN

Archeophone Records has
this CD available for purchase where you can also
listen to excerpts.
A humorist who spent
22 years waxing his Uncle Josh stories, Cal Stewart was the first
performer whose stage appearances were celebrated by reference to
his records rather than the other way around. In his famous role as
"rube" Uncle Josh Weathersby, he entertained millions of listeners
with tales of his antics both in New York City and at home in Punkin
Center. The Indestructible Uncle Josh provides a snapshot of Stewart's
repertoire at the height of his career, featuring all 25 of his 2-minute
cylinders for the Indestructible company and a choice sampling of
his work on U-S Everlasting cylinders. The package includes a 28-page
booklet with notes by Stewart expert and scholar Patrick Feaster.
List price: $16.49
The UCSB
Cylinder Archive also has many Uncle Josh cylinder recordings
available for listening, e.g, Uncle
Josh invites the city folks to visit him down on the farm.
Supporting UCSB's Adopt
a Cylinder Program would be an excellent way to be a Friend
of the Phonograph. Do it today!
OTHER PHONOGRAPH RELATED RECORDINGS
"On
the Gramophone" by David C. Bangs, Berliner 7" single-sided
record No. 619 Z, Recorded February 15, 1896 (Courtesy i78s.org)
"On
the Gramophone" by Geo. Graham, Berliner 7" single-sided
record No. 637 W, Recorded December 2, 1896 (Courtesy i78s.org)
"What is the Gramophone?"
by Geo. Graham - Gramophone Record advertised in The Phonoscope,
March 1897
"Murphy's
Gramophone" (Tierney) by John Terrell, Berliner No. 1882,
Recorded August 1898 (Courtesy i78s.org)
"Murphy's Phonograph"
by Russell Hunting, June 1897 p.14 The Phonoscope
"Put that Gramophone
Record On Again" (Sam May, H. Darewski Music, cf. Wonder of
the Age Kevin Daly, Argo ZPR 122-3)
"When the Gramophone
Shop Caught Fire" Stanley Kirby (M. Scott)
"Our Lizzie Gets a
Gramophone" Helena Millais
"Casey Listening to
the Phonograph" by Russell Hunting
"Uncle Zed Buys a
Graphophone" by Charles Ross Taggert
"Say It to the Ediphone"
by Jones and Hare
"Santa Claus Hides
in your Phonograph" by Harry Humphrey on Edison
"Santa Claus Hides
in your Phonograph" by Billy Jones for Columbia
"Edison Advertising
Record" by Len Spencer (un-numbered for Edison Dealers only)
"Special Talking Cylinder"
Columbia brown wax by Len Spencer (demonstrates the Edison, battery
runs down and he says "I'll have to get one of those Columbia
Graphophones with the spring motor."
"The Phonograph Faker"
by Len Spencer (apparently before 1900) - demonstrates the Edison
Phonograph to a crowd, praises Edison, answers questions and says
it will bring all the great voices, such as President McKinley and
Adelina Patti, to your home. (Columbia cylinder owned by Alan Redford
of Norwalk, Conn. cf. John Petty, as described in November 1979 Hobbies,
Walsh part III.

Phonographia