There are at least three different recordings that comic Murry K. Hill made with this title - one for Victor disc, one for Edison 4-minute cylinder, and this one for 4-minute Oxford Indestructible cylinder - and they are all different. This version,
sold through Sears Roebuck catalog, was recorded sometime around July of 1911. It includes the anti-sufferagette song "Don't", his classic discertation on how Columbus discovered America (Stan Freberg must have been listening to this one!), and a song incorporating
some "updated" nursury rhymes. This is the guy who paved the way for Groucho Marx and Doodles Weaver, and his recordings must have been real favorites as they tend to have been played to death. This one follows that rule - rather noisy for an indestructible
cylinder - but applying some noise reduction to it helped to make it more listenable. (The Edison cylinder version of "A Bunch of Nonsense" is on-line at the
Edison National Historic Site, and the Victor disc is part of an on-line radio show at the
Thomas Edison's Attic web site.)
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