Die Tödliche Doris ‎– "Chöre & Soli" (Pure Freude ‎– PF 34 GM) 1983

Never ones to shy away from a conceptual art statement; Doris produced this box set which contained 1 book, 8 miniphon records and 1 battery driven device to play them on. Each disc contains two short tracks;which are very short acappella songs, the German texts of which are printed in the booklet, where they are also parts of a story illustrated with photographs.
The songs have the quality of some long lost childrens programme from 1950's DDR. Producer of such kiddies classics as "The Singing Ringing Tree", which used to haunt my childhood. I still think of that German speaking dwarf with dread!
The device included in this box was exactly the same pink contraption that was in those 'laughing bags' that also haunted my childhood. I still know every note of that horrific laughing sequence! This thing used these same little miniphon records to replay the laughing, and its this playback quality that gives these spooky little recording their weird nostalgic vibe.
Not something you'd want to play over and over again, but really a beautiful piece of conceptual art.

Tracklist:

A1	Untitled
A2	Untitled
B1	Untitled
B2	Untitled
C1	Untitled
C2	Untitled
D1	Untitled
D2	Untitled
E1	Untitled
E2	Untitled
F1	Untitled
F2	Untitled
G1	Untitled
G2	Untitled
H1	Untitled
H2	Untitled

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Believe it or not;there was also a live performance of these works:

 

Die Tödliche Doris ‎– "Chöre & Soli Live Im Delphi-Palast" (1984) 

Lengthier versions of the tracks are performed in front of an obviously amused audience,with some sparse accompaniment.These versions have titles,which, if you are really sad, can match up with the original versions?  

Tracklist

A1	You See We Come As Friends
A2	Mädchenherzen
A3	Die Luft
A4	Die Sonne
A5	2 Witwen
A6	Graue Augen
B1	Denk An Mich
B2	Rosette
B3	Kühn, Tapfer, Mutig, Rebellisch
B4	Kavaliere
B5	Holda's Heiße Tränen
B6	Maria

DOWNLOAD  Live Im Delphi-Palast HERE!