Decca records may have passed on signing ‘The Beatles’, but they more than made up for that goof by producing the above record which may be my favorite long-playing record ever (next to that Monty Python record on which one side contains two completely different sets of material and you don’t know which one you’re going to hear when you drop that needle). This is a collection of audio ephemera, sound  effects, silly English accents, trombone playing, drums beating and pseudo-scientific attempts to explain some basic sonic science to an audience that I can’t imagine was really listening. I love the painstaking demonstrations of how stereo voices can travel across a room–it reminds me of the scene in ‘Singing In The Rain’ when they show the short film of the man demonstrating how sound movies work. I hope you revel in this LPs perverse brilliance–I’ve had a ridiculously entertaining morning hearing it for the first time in decades.