Promenade 45 Extended Play A55-7 B

Guitar Boogie Shuffle - Glitters, Alvin's Harmonica - Richard Deane, Peter Gunn - Promenade Orchestra

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[Vitamorm]

Another Record Company that used to do this was "OSCAR RECORDS out of Burbank, CA - do you know if they were related. My grandparents used to buy these extended play 45's @ Coronet Stores in southern California (a dime store) some of them only had one side and listed "NO ARTIST" at all.

[1LoFi45]

Sorry, never heard of those. I'll look around.

[blastingrod]

Side two of the knockoff record...I am familiar with

every song on both sides of the disc. Incidentally,

imitation Alvin is a real hoot!

[1LoFi45]

Thanks. I had to do something with it. It was skipping on every other record.

[mlebagley]

fun! I have another Alvin's Harmonica knock off too, Only it's on the Gilmar record label there so fun! they had up to eight songs per 45 rpm record and 6 song per 45 like this one.

[pgh45rpms]

The songs here were popular in 1959. Searching around the 'net, I found out there was a Promenade label started by Peter Pan Records, the maker of children's records. These sound-alikes were usually sold in 5&10 stores, drug stores, grocers, etc. at about half the price of the major label records.

[TheodoretheChipmunk5]

alvin's harmonica skipped :(

[wdharveyoicu]

Gotta say it...but does anyone remember the "Sessions Singers" who did a lot of "covers" for the likes of Ronco Records (12" albums)? I accidentally got suckered into some of those as a kid, and when I realized I didn't get the ORIGINAL artist, I was PISSED!!!

[RickenbackerBeatles]

The turntable was skipping every other record. So, he replaced the tomearm.

[realswellguy]

To those who posted comments below mine about 'training records', well, look who's getting faked out here! The Virtues ('Guitar Boogie Shuffle'), Alvin & The Chipmunks (Alvin's Harmonica) Hey! when you consider that the Chipmunks were actually a trick involving a variable-speed tape recorder. this has to be a fake of a fake. And Henry Mancini ('Theme From Peter Gunn')is the last to get faked out on this set. When I get myself a turntable. I plan to use a Mancini album for my TRAINING RECORD!

[psychoweird]

I had an aunt who used to be a schoolteacher.

When she retired she brought me a stack of

'flexi-disk' records, with all kinds of old

'edumacational stuff' on them. These were my

TRAINING RECORDS when I was learning how to

use a record player.

[mikethemuzz]

Sounds like Falc' found himself a gem...but

seeeeeriously, you hardly ever find the old

knock-off records at flea markets in anything

other than worn-out condition. I sometimes

suspect parents bought these, knowing they

were cheap, to let their children use to

TEACH THEMSELVES HOW TO USE RECORD PLAYERS.

Just as kids had training pants and training

wheels on their bikes, these may have been

their TRAINING RECORDS! HAA-AAAA!

[Falcons66]

Haha! Just bogutha ton of records today and somehow accidentally slipped a 'promenade' record in by accident. Mine has 'Breathless by billie case, Jo-Ann by the promineers, The Stroll by the promineers, Don't by jimmie alres, Kisses Sweeter than Wine by johnny logan, and great balls of fire by THE Billie Case. :) Imagine this: It looks like its never been played :D

[blastingrod]

Circa 1960, Promenade stopped

listing the alleged artists

under their songtitles and

only produced a few more

knock-off records before

they folded.