around the world at 78rpm  by Dax Diaz Recent Tweets @ 1,029
plays Nguyen Van Thong   In the 1940s the Czechoslovakian label
Supraphon released 78s by Asian artists from countries as far
away as Mongolia, North Korea, and Vietnam, among other places.
The other side of this record is a mystery since it’s billed
solely to Nguyen Van Thong, but begins with an acapela track by
what very much sounds like a woman. In between that song and the
next, the record is banded so one has to lift the needle to get
to the second song, which Nguyen Van Thong clearly sings and
plays guitar on- a tune as happy as the one here is sad. So
either Nguyen could sound like both a man and a woman and was as
comfortable singing unaccompanied as he was sliding on the
frets, or some woman didn’t get any credit. That side with both
tracks is streaming at  649 plays Lao Sai Bo Hong Bang with Zi
Bhung & Eng Guang   Here are both sides of a Teochew record by
the Lao Sai Bo Hong Bang troupe with singers Zi Bhung & Eng
Guang from Guangdong’s C