[78-L] What the....?

[David Lennick]

Royal Pemberton wrote:
> I had an unfortunate brain fart and forgot to bid on one record I
> really wanted, the Spike Jones 'Drip, drip, drip'.  I accidentally
> broke my dad's 78 of it when I was 5 and have never seen another copy.
> 
Sheesh, I probably have a couple of spares, since it's on the back of one of my 
faves, Holiday for Strings.

dl

> But I'll be happy with the two I did manage to win--'Don't you rock me
> daddy-o' by the Vipers on Parlophone, and that fabled, last-ever
> acoustic Columbia recorded for the chain-store labels:  'There's a
> wah-wah girl in Agua Caliente' by the Golden Gate Orchestra, from May
> 1930.  (Matrix 150528....I wonder if it was also the last acoustic
> matrix actually recorded, as opposed to just the highest matrix number
> issued?)
> 
> On 5/29/09, Stewart, Joseph R <RandyStewart at missouristate.edu> wrote:
>> In a message dated 5/29/2009 8:23:30 A.M. US Mountain Standard Time,
>> dlennick at sympatico.ca writes:
>> You know  you're in a recession when you can place modest bids on two
>> Mickey Katz  Victors ($6.77 each) and win them.  A couple of years ago,
>> any purple
>> label Yiddish or Klez Victors on Reiss's list would have gone for about
>> three
>> times that.
>> And Mike in Phoenix (N7MW at aol.com) replied:
>> Same story for me on the recent Nauck auction.  More winners from  my
>> usual
>> batch of low-ball bids than in years.
>>
>> Afraid I can't say the same--MY (relatively) low-ball bids on some
>> operatic vocals got me zippity-doo-dah-nada-not-a-bloody-thing in the
>> latest Naucktion.  First time I've gotten skunked on a Kurt auction in a
>> long time.  Not a unhappy camper, but not exactly pleased either.
>>
>> Randy Stewart
>> Springfield MO