From engineer/producer E.D. Nunn's Audiophile Records of Saukville, Wisconsin comes this sequel to their 1952 sound effects record "Echoes of the Storm", the liner notes of which concluded with the ringing endorsement "This record is just a lot of noise but if you like this sort of thing here it is". Considering Nunn's label spent the first three years of its existence releasing jazz, dixieland, and classical records designed to be played on standard microgroove players but at 78rpm, not 33 1/3, the buyer might infer a basic reluctance on the part of an up-and-coming label to produce a sound effects test record for no reason other than to prove their high-fidelity bona fides. By the time they produced this 1956 sequel they weren't even disguising the fact that it existed only as a piss-take on the entire genre; the selections include barking dogs, crying infants, roosters, cows, caterwauling cats, Milwaukee River traffic, and a car playing chicken with a train. "We leave [this record's] fate to the tender mercies of our more understanding friends," say the liner notes, "who may now hear such exotic sounds as hogs squealing—in high fidelity". Thanks Ewing!
Burglar's Nemesis (parts 1 & 2)
Infant Lament
Salute to Sunrise
Cackle-Berry Collection
"This Little Pig Went to Market..."
Bovine Blues
Feline Kindergarden
Tomcat Serenade to a Willing Widow
Rural Evening
Milwaukee River Traffic
Tempus Fidgets
The →Big← RR Crossing Episode
Syncopated Steno
Saukville Water Pump—Vintage Circa 1905
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