[78-L] Holy Grails, was Re: Signatures on Columbia banner records

[David Lennick]

Steven C. Barr wrote:

> The BEST kind of "holy grail" is to get a record which you had no idea
> existed!! I bought (from Jim Hadfield) a promotional Radiex disc intended
> to promote the fact they now were recording ELECTRICALLY!! The
> tunes are both late 1925...and it uses special non-sequential matrix 
> numbers;
> looks very much like the matrices were cut by Emerson?!
> 
> Never seen it anywhere else, and nobody seems to have owned or even
> SEEN a copy of it!
> 
> ...stevenc 

Jim Hadfield was great for Holy Grail items! The first time I ever went to see 
him, taking a side trip on a visit to Ottawa and having only about an hour to 
spend there, I asked about the Spike Jones "By The Beautiful Sea" and he 
promptly produced it..on white label DJ vinyl.

dl