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

[David Lennick]

Well, both parents had made some soft cuts on a home recording machine a couple 
of years before I was born....

dl

Ron L'Herault wrote:
> Ah, if you count "home recordings", my dad made a disk at an amusement park,
> singing "their" song to my mom.  The tune was "East of the Sun" and the year
> was 1948. He had a great voice but would not sing in public. I was close to
> 1 year old at the time.  I've still got the disk and have transfers on both
> tape and digital media.  My sister gave a digital copy to someone who
> created an electronic orchestral accompaniment to the a capella (sp?)
> original.
> 
> Ron L
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> From: 78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com
> [mailto:78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com] On Behalf Of Rodger Holtin
> Sent: Saturday, April 04, 2009 2:15 AM
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> 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:
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> 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
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> 
> 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?
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> 
> Dennis Flannigan
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