[78-L] Another Columbia question

David Lennick dlennick at sympatico.ca
Mon Apr 20 18:15:06 PDT 2009


I think it was a vinyl promo 78.

dl

RAY KILCOYNE wrote:
> You, of all people, should complain David.  I have lots of your transfers. 
> My favorite is NEW ASHMOLEAN MARCHING SOCIETY by Johnny Mercer.  It's sounds 
> like it came from a 33 or 45, but I suspect it was a 78.
> RayK
> From: "David Lennick" <
>> 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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