Talk:Singing telegram

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This article could do with some more useful expansion, more information on the following might help:

"Western Union began offering singing telegram services in 1933." Is there any further information to expand on this further and back this up? Any references?
A paragraph or two on the common types of singing telegram, expanding how it is usually done as a parody ie. using Gorillas or as a token of affection like a Serenade by a professional singer/musician etc.

Legoman 09:31, 28 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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These sources said an earlier singing telegram was delievered on February 10, 1933 by New York City's Postal Telegraph Company (which later merged with Western Union).

However, all these Websites do NOT offer much further details:

http://www.terramedia.co.uk/Chronomedia/years/1933.htm http://www.foodreference.com/html/html/food-history-1930.html http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/t/telephones_and_telecommunications/index.html?s=oldest& or search Google on some key words http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=February+1933+%22Postal+Telegraph%22+first+singing+telegram&btnG=Search

as well as Wikipedia's own pages http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_10 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1933

Merging

~~There are many orphaned stubs, such as the kissogram, that could be merged here and make this into one article.~~ I started this, there may be more out there. --Ifnord (talk) 00:41, 17 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The article Singing Valentines has also been recommended for merging with this article. However, in the Singing Valentine Wikipedia article, there is a section that explicitly states the difference between singing telegrams and singing valentines. Does anyone believe that sentence is coming from a non-neutral point of view? Additionally, the Singing Valentine article seems to be a big enough article where it could stand on its own, but if anyone has more knowledge on the similarities between the two, care to share? Thanks! Mewhho18 (talk) 14:25, 3 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]