[78-L] Another Columbia question

David Lennick dlennick at sympatico.ca
Mon Apr 20 16:39:20 PDT 2009


Okay, folks..we got a spy in our midst. Can't play 78s, doesn't collect 78s. I 
get first turn flogging him with Peter Doyle's unbreakable copy of "You Can't 
Be True Dear".

dl

RAY KILCOYNE wrote:
> From: "Michael Biel"
>> "Toolie Oolie Doolie" and is subtitled "(The Yodel Polka)".  There's no
>> accounting for taste.  Did Ken Griffin record this one also?
>>
> The most popular version of TOOLIE was by the Andrews Sisters.  It was 
> written by Vaughn Horton, the man who was also resposible for these 
> classics, MOCKIN' BIRD HILL, CHOO CHOO CH-BOOGIE, ADDRESS UNKNOWN, SUGAR 
> FOOT RAG, and PENNSYLVANIA TURNPIKE I LOVE YOU.
> RayK
>> RAY KILCOYNE wrote:
>>> I have that 78 in my vast collection of 200 78's. I don't remember seeing
>>> that notation. I can check but it would take hours.
>> Are you being sarcastic about 200 78s?  Or is that a typo?  I BOUGHT
>> that many yesterday alone!
>>
> No typo, I was sorta bragging that I had that many.  I would have had 202 
> but the last two I bought online arrived broken.
> I don't own and never have owned a 78 player.  I take that back, I do have 
> one that plays at 78 but I can't get needles for it.
> So for the above two reasons I let others do the transfers and just collect 
> the music.  I also transferred around a thousand myself from a friend's 
> collection, but those are the least favorite of mine.  Too much surface 
> noise.
> RayK 
> 



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