EDDIE CANTOR 10" Transcription Disc - Radio Advertising Spots for EDDIE FISHER

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This 10-inch 78 RPM Electro-Vox transcription record is titled "Eddie Fisher Intro." Issued apparently for radio play as commercial spots, the record contains three tracks on the first side and two on the second. The three tracks on Side 1, and the first track on Side 2, are all variations of Eddie Cantor introducing then 20-year old Eddie Fisher to his radio audience. The other track on the second side is also Eddie Cantor speaking, but this time advertising the ongoing vaudeville show at the Orpheum Theatre in downtown Los Angeles. Based on Eddie Cantor's well documented "discovery" of Eddie Fisher, the record is presumed to have been made in 1949. 
For those of you too young to remember who Eddie Cantor and Eddie Fisher were, they were both singers, but Cantor was also arguably the most famous radio personality of the first half of the 20th century. And Eddie Fisher's greatest claims to fame? Father of Carrie Fisher of Star Wars fame, and husband (at different times) of Elizabeth Taylor, Debbie Reynolds and Connie Stevens.

Unlike a normal LP or EP, the tracks have no connecting grooves between them, since they are intended to be played individually as radio spots or commercials. 
The record is still nice and shiny, but with some visible surface scuffs and scratches, and enough of a warped spot that it makes the needle jump. I've played all the tracks on my Audio-Technica turntable, and there were no skips or jumps, and mostly just typical light background noise, apart from the rhythmic knocking or thudding of the needle passing over the warp. Because of variations in tracking ability, filtering technology and needle weights, I can offer no guarantees as to how well it will play on your equipment. 
As found, it has no cover. It will be shipped in a generic type of sleeve.
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