Listen to this creepy "Laughing Song" from 1904

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And here’s another one: “The OKeh laughing record (1920)”; just three minutes of a couple of folks laughing interspersed with a occasional horn blatt. So strangely annoying(?) that Tex Avery/Walter Lantz produced a cartoon about Mr Twiddle eventually being driven insane (and exploding in rage) by the sound of this “laughing record” coming from somewhere nearby: “Sh-h-h-h-h (1955)”

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One good acid track full of laughing deserves another…

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That is roughly what my family hears when I’m watching Mystery Science Theater 3000 in the next room.

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Here’s my favorite laughing song. I always imagine Marion Ravenwood and Beloq from “Raiders of the Lost Ark” recording this as they drink after he gives her the white dress… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFqZhadwvG0

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He’s just singing ‘Carnival of Venice’

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Came here for this. I used to sing this to the young 'uns.

But, also:

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This would be good for Halloween.

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Completely exhausted by gigs after which he had to sleep for three hours, Josh Wink went to his studio to work on the track, but the only thing that he could squeeze out of himself was laughter.

“So I said f**k it I’ll record myself laughing.” Back then, he was fascinated by, as he called it, Chicago minimalism: the less, the better. Which meant a Roland TR-909 with elements of classic house and experimental acid. Sound like it’s unfinished but interesting — it’ll do.

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