13 de setembro de 2013

Master Radio Canaries "Mexicali Rose and Aloa Oe" 1955



This is an advertising record distributed to all customers in the early to mid- 1950s buying Hartz Mountain bird food. Those records were made to teach the birds to sing. Another record by the same company, which I will upload later, is to teach a parakeet to talk..
The history behind this brand is quite interesting. Two German brothers, Max and Gustav Stern emigrated to the US in 1926 with 5000 singing canaries and began manuafacturing bird food in 1932. Later they started to sell pet animals and introduced pet supplies into tens of thousands of supermarkets. Today this company still exists as a private family-owned and-operated company.

Jan Kubelik plays "Zephyr" by Hubay