Hi Robert,

I'm so happy I was able to supply you with an MP3 of "Eat, Eat, Eat!"

That tragic day of infamy when you lost both your neighbor and your
eating record can now be neutralized, at least partially. I'm sure you've
been extra careful where you sit ever since that sad day.

I bought Eat, Eat, Eat! as a 78 on Ebay and digitized and cleaned it up
as best I could on my Mac. I've spent the last several years digitizing old
Danny 33's, 45's and 78's that have never been released on CD. I'm
currently looking for Danny Kaye recordings of:

"I Paid My Income Tax Today"

“I Never Knew”

“Dry Bones”

“When You Were Sweet Sixteen”

If you or anybody on the Danny Kaye list has any of these songs I'd
love to trade.

Bill Selby
San Francisco


Robert Colcock wrote:

> Since I downloaded this file I must have played it countess
> times. Today at work my co-workers will probably tell me to play
> something else. "Eat, Eat, Eat" is my all time favorite Christmas
> song. Bing, "eat" your heart out.
> I remember the last time I played the old 78 recording I had of
> it. I had just played it about a dozen times in early 1960 and the
> door bell rang. It was our neighbor announcing they were moving
> about 75 miles away. The "girl" next door had been like a sister to
> me. I still have the photo of us in the same baby carriage togeth at
> about 1 year old in about 1947. I was so devastated that I just had
> to sit down. I will never forget that awful sound of "crunch". I
> had done the unthinkable and put a fragile disc on a chair and sat on
> it. There I jumped up and looking at those pitiful shards of wax or
> whatever it was made of and uttered one of those phrases the likes of
> which matched FDRs phrase "Day of Infamy": "I Broke the Eating
> Record" Even Danny Kaye would have been touched.
> We wrote Columbia, searched record stores, and every Christmas
> season including last year, I check the Christmas music sections of
> stores looking for a re-issue. I even went to the Library of
> Congress, but they did not have a copy, they did have the sheet music
> which I photo copied there. Finding this rates up there to my
> wedding day, and the births of my children. Its OK to find the humor
> in this. Along with Danny Kaye my favorite performers also include
> Steve Allen and Jean Shepherd. All three knew how to delightfully
> mix humor and seriousness. As Steve Allen would say, "Now all
> seriousness aside...."
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