[78-L] Bossa Nova etc.

[Spats]

Hi Steve!

In my performing life, I specialize in 
singing/writing Bossa Nova and have performed in 
Brasil several times, including singing with a 
drummer called Mutinho, who played for Jobim 
himself. Naturally, I made sure that I was there 
to see Joao Gilberto perform his very first 
concert here in London, literally only a very few 
years ago.

I do have quite a few Brazilian 78s, but from the 
20s, 30s and 40s, mainly and certainly nothing as 
late as Bossa Nova. I do have Joao's early 
recordings, however, on these weird modern stuff 
called vinyl! ;-)

I have

'Chega De Saudade' (Odeon MOFB 3073).
'O Amor, O Sorriso, E A Flor (Odeon MOFB 3151)
Then simply JOAO GILBERTO ( Odeon MOFB 3202).

The latter lacks its original sleeve and none are in pristine condition.

Then I also have some of these tracks re-issued on World Record Club. T766.

I had no idea that they were valuable!
No doubt, they have to be in really mint 
condition to be worth anything, methinks!

Contact me offlist, if you want to take this 
discussion further, for most of it has nothing to 
do with 78s!

Earl Okin.

At 7:48 pm -0700 21/10/2008, 78-l-request at klickitat.78online.com wrote:
>Unrelated to the subject matter of this list, 
>I've been listening to lots of bossa nova and 
>other Brazilian music lately, and trying to find 
>some of the earlier and scarcer records. It's a 
>mystery to me why this stuff has been treated so 
>shabbily by the reissuers (a few 
>long-out-of-print CDs), but anyways.
>
>I discovered from Jo“o Gilberto's Wikipedia page 
>that he was making 78s in the Brazilian market 
>quite late, into the 1960s, for Todamerica, 
>Copacabana, and Odeon. The latest one they list 
>is Odeon 14.725, "Bolinha de Papel" (by Geraldo 
>Pereira) backed with "Saudade da Bahia" (by 
>Dorival Caymmi), from April 1961.
>
>Whatever you think of Wikipedia, it does have 
>enormous value not in its own content but in 
>where it sends you. This is unusually detailed 
>discographical information, and it comes from 
>this nice page: 
>http://www.sombras.com.br/joaogilberto/joao.htm
>
>1961 is pretty late for a 78. Being in the 
>less-developed Brazilian market must have 
>helped; I'm guessing also this was primarily for 
>the jukebox market? I know (I think I know) that 
>in the US 78s were being made this late for the 
>country and R&B juke markets.
>
>I've never seen one of these Gilberto Odeons, of 
>course; even the LPs go for megabucks. What are 
>the latest 78s sitting in the collections of 
>this list's expert members? Any bets on the last 
>US 78, the last world 78? I've heard rumors of a 
>Beatles 78 from India, as late as 1968 -- anyone 
>seen it?
>
>--
>Steve.