First heard this cylinder when I was five years old, and I have never grown tired of it. Porter and Harlan recorded this for Edison Labs in November of 1911 - they also recorded it for Columbia disc, presumably around the same time frame. It
starts out as another in a series of "Rube Sketches" that Porter & Harlan were famous for, then becomes a full-fledged re-enactment of a Patent Medicine Salesman's pitch. There's music in here too, accompanied
by an uncredited banjo player (probably Fred Van Epps or Vess Ossman). The surface is clean, though a blister at the end makes the needle jump a little. Good clean fun in more ways than one. (Other "Rube" recordings by Porter and Harlan can
be heard over at the UCSB Special Collection.)
