jan and dean baby talk

Paraphrasing this old post of mine from a thread
mentioning various 45's:

I timed my promo 45 of this record (Dore 522) out to
2:17. The label states 2:17. I timed my stock 45 (also
Dore 522,mono with a listed label time of 2:17) out to
2:20, the promo version does have a quick and sudden
fade, and fades earlier than my stock copy does. The
trail-out numbers on my promo 45 are: 45-LDE-25 and a 1
with a circle around it. I also see Delta 29439 in the
trail out area. The stock copy shows 45-LDE-25 and a 2
with a circle around it and in another area i see 9M, but
no delta numbers on this side (however the b side delta
number from the promo 45 can be found in the trail out of
the B side of the stock 45).

Hykker wrote: Curiously, what is the proper pronunciation of Dore...is it "door" or "dory"? I've heard both.

It's pronounced "dory." I'd never known for sure either, until a competitor dusted off Hudson & Landry's old "The Prospectors" bit during the early '80s and we started getting lots of requests for it. When I rang up Lou Bedell at the label to get a copy, that was his pronunciation (Dore was his son's first name.)

The label's logos could have been partly to blame for the confusion: on the original script-within-the-feather logo, there's a thin line drawn over the "e", as in a long "e" "dory" or "dor-EE." When the label changed to the black/multicolor feather/"DORÉ" in-all-caps design, the "E" had an acute accent over it, as in "dor-ay."

So "dory" it is... or was. Next question: why the feather?