Answer (Robyn) – No Cleanup – Evan Williams, 3.4 MB mp3 file.

Yes, this is the same tune I posted last week. I figured it’d be kind of interesting to post the uncorrected file, scratches and all, so that you’d have a baseline file to compare to the quality of the tunes I’ve been posting. I did take the step of converting it from 45 RPM to 78, but otherwise it’s untouched.

Comic is up! Sorry it’s late, we’re having thunderstorms here.

Gunnerkrigg Court.

Just go read all the archives, OK? It’s very much worth it.

Answer (Robyn) – Evan Williams, 5.5 MB mp3 file.

Just a single sided record today. This one is a remarkable tenor singing a melancholy and slightly operatic love tune from 1919. I wish the noise reduction was a bit less obvious on this one.

I think we need some of these tomatoes….

Ok, let me just reiterate how much I’m loving Eco-Comics. The authors have just spent a couple days analyzing the return on investment for Batman villains cooperating. Using a combination of the Prisoner’s Dilemma and Utility Analysis they’ve determined that the best course of action is for members of Batman’s “Rouge’s Gallery” to pretend to cooperate, and then betray each other.

I played a lot of freeciv doing research for this week’s comic….

Navajo – Harry MacDonough. 4.5 MB mp3 file.

Ok, a bit of history on this one: back before I was born, my dad did some tinkering and fixed up an old Victrola that had been in the family for years. This was the record that he tested it with. It’s a goofy little novelty tune from 1904. There’s a bit of static, and the digital noise reduction is a bit obvious, but the record is a hundred and five years old so you gotta give that some respect…

Normandy – Edwin J. McEnelly’s Orchestra, 6.2 MB mp3 file.

What a Blue Eyed Baby You Are – Edwin J. McEnelly’s Orchestra, 5.4 MB mp3 file.

Prior to a big battle that happened some 65 years ago today, Normandy was best known as a seaside resort in the north of France. This recording predates “Operation Neptune” by about 19 years, and it’s a little bit of extra irony that the “B” side of the record is about a girl with extremely blue eyes…

If I can find it, I’ll post the recipe for the stuff in this week’s comic.

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