[78-L] Who was the first . . .

[Rodger Holtin]

The FIRST one I met was probably my great-grandfather, who made some home recordings on 78 in the early 1940s and I didn't find out about the records until last summer.

Next would have been my high school music teacher who cust some 78s for the Kendall label in Rochester, NY about 1951.

The next one you'd want to know about would have to be Bill Rank, trombonist of the Bix era and/or Curtis Hitch of Hitch's Happy Harmonists on Gennett.  I met both at the Coon-Sanders annual in Charleston, WV in 1970.  I was 19 and they were about 70.  They were as impressed that I knew who they were as I was that they were there at the CSN meeting and eating at the same table with little ol' me. 

All of these were important in my life for different reasons, Grandpa died when I was small and remember him only faintly.  The music teacher and his influence are felt in my family to this day.

Back to the CSN meeting, Bill sat in with the band and played better than he did in 1927; quite impressive playing for a retired beer salesman (I think that's what he did after leaving music.)  Curt regaled us with stories of the Gennett studios.  Did we tape any of it?  Of course not.  But there was a guy there named Rod Collins from some radio station in Virginia who taped some stuff about the CSN meeting, so he may have captured some from those two.  No idea where that would be now, but...

Oh, yes, Bill gave a copy of a 7" 1/4 track reel of "What's Left of Goldkette" to Clyde "Pappy" Hahn of the CSN group, and Pappy passed a copy to me.  I wonder if it still plays?  It was really neat-o stuff.  Guys like Rank, Chauncy Morehouse and Speigle [sp?] Wilcox reminisced about the Goldkett band days.  I thought the neatest part was Paul Mertz playing Hurricane on his piano in the parlor.  Wow.  I might out to dig that tape out one of these days while my reel player still works.


Rodger



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--- On Sat, 4/4/09, krabgrass at aol.com <krabgrass at aol.com> wrote:

From: krabgrass at aol.com <krabgrass at aol.com>
Subject: [78-L] Who was the first . . .
To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
Date: Saturday, April 4, 2009, 12:23 AM



person you met who recorded on 78 rpm records. Do you remember who, when, where and does it remain an important experience in your life?




Dennis Flannigan


 



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