78 Finds

Discussion in 'Music Corner' started by bodine, Jun 11, 2008.

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  1. bodine

    bodine Senior Member Thread Starter

    Location:
    Washington DC
    Latest 78 haul down south:

    Elmore James--Please Find My Baby/Strange Kinda Feeling (Flair)

    Sleepy John Estes--Brownsville Blues/New Someday Baby (Decca)

    Little Brother Montgomery--Vicksburg Blues No. 2/Mama You Don't Mean Me No Good (Bluebird)

    Bukka White--Shake Em On Down/Pinebluff Arkansas (Vocalion)...sadly, long crack
     
  2. bodine

    bodine Senior Member Thread Starter

    Location:
    Washington DC
    And in recent pickups from eBay:

    Jackie Brenston and Ike Turner--Rocket 88 on Chess

    Howlin' Wolf--Moanin' at Midnight/How Many More Years on Chess

    Joe Hill Louis--Feel Like A Million/Heartache Baby on Modern
     
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  3. carrolls

    carrolls Forum Resident

    Location:
    Dublin
    I know this is an old thread but NO.
    They are 78's. The dynamic range is going to be very poor.
     
  4. Chip TRG

    Chip TRG Senior Member

    Wrong. Mint condition 78's when played with the right sized needle sound amazing. RCA's cuttings were supurb.

    Of course, *FINDING* mint condition 78's is another story.
     
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  5. wildroot indigo

    wildroot indigo Forum Resident

    Pencil Papa Blues / Osceola Blues - Charles Booker (OKeh 8155)

    From 1924, I don't think this has ever been reissued... surprisingly relaxed and warm alto sax blues solos, with unidentified piano and banjo accompaniment. Osceola Blues has a beautiful minor key section.
     
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  6. wildroot indigo

    wildroot indigo Forum Resident

    Senorita Mine / How Could I Be Blue? - Blue Grass Foot Warmers (Harmony 206-H)

    Charleston Hound / Old Folks' Shuffle - Blue Grass Foot Warmers (Harmony 248-H)

    1926... great jazz records by a Clarence Williams band with washboard: three tracks are co-written by Fats Waller, though he's not on the sessions.
     
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  7. lightbulb

    lightbulb Not the Brightest of the Bunch

    Location:
    Smogville CA USA
    I am envious of you all.
    It may be just a rash case of collector's envy...
    But as the years pass by, these works of art seem to be forgotten artifacts that must be preserved as much as possible.

    To have survived for almost one whole century, with the ever-pending threat to be dumped in a landfill is a shame.
     
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  8. wildroot indigo

    wildroot indigo Forum Resident

    East St. Louis Toodle-oo / Jubilee Stomp - The Washingtonians (Cameo 8182)

    East St. Louis Toodle-oo / Jubilee Stomp - Whoopee Makers (Perfect 14962)

    1928... two sets of takes from a session by Duke Ellington and His Orchestra: if I'm not mistaken, those on Perfect originally appeared on Pathe Actuelle. Perfect records are a great way to pick up master pressings of music that's much rarer on Pathe.

    There are also two issued takes of Take It Easy from this session (I don't have those on 78rpm).
     
  9. seed_drill

    seed_drill Senior Member

    Location:
    Tryon, NC, USA
    What do RCA's cuttings have to do with anything? When I spin Elvis on 78 it's on SUN, baby.

    (Actually, I only have two Elvis 78s, and the other is "Playing For Keeps", and, no, it ain't mint).
     
  10. JamieC

    JamieC Senior Member

    Location:
    Detroit Mi USA
  11. seed_drill

    seed_drill Senior Member

    Location:
    Tryon, NC, USA
    I recently added my 78s to my collection data base, and alphabetized them for the first time in years, and found I'd actually purchased several titles twice!
     
  12. seed_drill

    seed_drill Senior Member

    Location:
    Tryon, NC, USA
  13. JamieC

    JamieC Senior Member

    Location:
    Detroit Mi USA
    I have heard Sun Elvi, and they are amazing with the proper needle. I have also been told that same needle is best for Sun 45s as well.
     
  14. seed_drill

    seed_drill Senior Member

    Location:
    Tryon, NC, USA
    I've found I have to use a 78 stylus to get good sound out of my original Little Richard Specialty Lps, and they are visually in nice shape.
     
  15. Walter H

    Walter H Santa's Helper

    Location:
    New Hampshire, USA
    I'm reluctant to buy more records (approaching "hoarder" status) but this weekend I could not pass up, for $15, a Columbia Masterworks "tombstone" album of Brahms' Second Symphony by Walter Damrosch and the NY Symphony. Pressed on Royal Blue shellac, complete with booklet, and in lovely condition. Not a common set.
     
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  16. pdenny

    pdenny 22-Year SHTV Participation Trophy Recipient

    Location:
    Hawthorne CA
    By my avatar one might conclude I dig playing my 78's :agree: Probably the weirdest one I own is this...

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  17. Walter H

    Walter H Santa's Helper

    Location:
    New Hampshire, USA
    I was a bit surprised to see those sixteenth-notes at the top of the label. Surely CBS would not have been pleased by what they may well have seen as infringement of its "Magic Notes" trademark!
     
  18. JamieC

    JamieC Senior Member

    Location:
    Detroit Mi USA
    Columbia had not used the notes motif for over 20 years when this promo was issued in 70
     
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  19. Walter H

    Walter H Santa's Helper

    Location:
    New Hampshire, USA
    Until the 6-eye label in 1958, Columbia LP labels had a small notes-plus-microphone, usually at six o'clock.

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    Maybe a little later (not sure of the years) but more prominently, the notes were on "Discos Columbia" labels (made by Miami Records, licensed from Columbia.)

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  20. JamieC

    JamieC Senior Member

    Location:
    Detroit Mi USA
    Just to point out the obvious, the Columbia TM is for the microphone and notes in double circles. They could not have TMed the image of the notes alone.
     
  21. Walter H

    Walter H Santa's Helper

    Location:
    New Hampshire, USA
    Although it looks like on the Discos Columbia label they're claiming the notes alone as a trademark (see 8 o'clock position). But yes, they may not have been able to sustain a claim based on just the notes.
     
  22. Perisphere

    Perisphere Forum Resident

    This version of the Columbia logo was used by Denon in Japan for decades afterward....not long ago I saw a photo of a tape reel with this logo molded into it.
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