What Kind Of A Noise Annoys An Oyster?
August 2, 2013 5:33 AM   Subscribe

Whether vocalizing on the gyrations of the stock market, the frustrations of golf or the personalities of prunes, the friendly tenor of Frank Crumit once was one of the more familiar voices on phonographs and radios in the United States.

Crumit took to the stage at a young age and went on to strum his ukulele in such Broadway hits as the "Greenwich Village Follies of 1920." He didn't start recording until he was 30 years old. Perhaps it was just as well. The acoustic recording equipment of the day didn't show off his voice very well. But when electric microphones came into use around 1925, people could hear what they had been missing.

If any of those first three tunes are to your liking, you might also enjoy:

My Little Bimbo Down On The Bamboo Isle

There's No One With Endurance Like The Man Who Sells Insurance

and today's title tune:

What Kind Of A Noise Annoys An Oyster
posted by Longtime Listener (5 comments total) 8 users marked this as a favorite
 
Who could oppose a post apposite?
posted by hexatron at 6:45 AM on August 2, 2013


Did you ask Bones McCoy?
Did you ask Myrna Loy?
Did you ask Ubu Roi?
 
posted by Herodios at 6:53 AM on August 2, 2013


Doggone doggerel.
posted by paulsc at 3:39 PM on August 2, 2013


Hows about

Down in the Canebrake

and

My father was the Keeper of the Eddystone Light, He slept with a mermaid one fine night
posted by Crustybob at 4:12 AM on August 3, 2013


Years ago I bought a Victrola and one of the records I got with it was Frank Crumit singing, I Wish That I'd Been Born in Borneo. Always one of my faves!
posted by a humble nudibranch at 1:50 PM on August 3, 2013


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