Coin Machine Review (& Pacific ...)

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M IFF MOLE'S MOLERS
VOCALION { THE NEW TWISTER (FT)
3074
FEE LIN' NO PAIN (FT)
Instrumental fox-trots. No vocals. So-
prano saxophone stands out. Fair numbers.
JIMMI E T ARLT ON
VOCALION {THE MAPLE ON THE HILL (Vocal )
03077
LITTLE OLA (Vocal)
Vocals with guitar and Tom Darby help-
ing out on the second. Fair numbers.
Semi-cowboy singing.
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A s an operator of coin-contr graphs, I do not want to create any ill will
among my brother operators but I do have
a suggestion from which they might
benefit_
Recently I visited Southern California,
which is out of my operating territory, and
had occasion to visit about 100 or more
phonograph locations just to see how con-
ditions were in another section of the
country (no, I didn't try to sell them any-
thing! ) _ I want to say that I was surprised
to find so many instruments poorly serv-
KANSAS C ITY BILL WELDON
VOCALION{ WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH MY
030 8
~nLK COW? (Vocal)
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RACE HORSE FILLY BLUES(Vocal)
The whole barnyard on one disc, gents.
"What's The Matter With My Milk Cow,
She Won't Stand Still" and on the other
side a chat with the horses. Vocals with
piano and guitar. Pretty weak numbers.
BIG BOY EDWARDS
VOCALION (DANCING THE BLUES AWAY
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(Vocal)
03079
L GOOD DOING DADDY (Vocal)
Vocal with piano and guitar. Edwards
shouts the vocals in a manner that makes
it nigh impossible to understand. Average.
I KE CARGILL
( IT'S ALL BECAUSE THAT I
VOCALION j
LOVE YOU (Vocal)
03087
I I'~I GOING WHERE THE BLUES
L AIN'T NEVER KNOWN (Vocal )
Vocals with fiddle and guitar. Fair.
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"What's all this litter doing here?"
REVIEW
iced from a standpoint of cleanliness.
Many of the program slips were so poorly
written and so smeared that the titles
were scarcely legible. The glass doors on
others were so clouded with dust and finger
marks that they prevented a clear view of
the program. Cobwebs actually hung from
the corner of one instrument in a well-
paying location!
This criticism is being made only as a
helpful suggestion to whoever these oper-
ators may be;
Print your program slips if you do not
use music slips furnished "insufficiently"
by record ·companies. Keep that front
vision door clean on the inside and
instruct your location owner to keep the
outside clean. Keep light bulbs clean,
and clean the instrument both inside
and out on every service call.
I have been in the music business many
years and I learned long ago it is easier
to keep my instruments clean by going
over them every week than it is to clean
them once a month. I have proven my
intake to be better on instruments kept
clean as well as lessening my instrument
depreciation through cleanliness. I find
by taking an extra ten minutes to thor-
oughly clean my instrument each trip that
the location owner recognizes this and
helps keep my equipment clean on the out-
side during my absence.
Boys, you just can not beat cleanliness in
coin operation whether it is a peanut
vender costing five dollars or a phonograph
costing three hundred.
-A Simplex Operator.
JANUARY ,
1 93 6
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