[78-L] Introduction (a bit long)

[Rodger Holtin]

Welcome to the family, Bart.  You fit right in.  
Your story about abandoning the world of pop-rock for the more satisfying sounds of the earlier years rings quite familiar with many of us.  I bailed out when just before the Fab Four came to the US, rejoined the scene long enough to buy all the Apple albums and retreated back toe 78s once the Apple turned red.  Records of the Twenties, no matter what genre, are more fun than anything since, IMHO.  My interest wanes somewhere between Near You and Shrimp Boats

Your post about the Lass Brothers is just the sort of quasi-topic stuff that we seem to find almost as interesting as groove width, playback speeds and middle names of band leaders like Bob Cotterill Haring on Cameo, so give yourself your first star. 

You may already know these.
In the absence many in-depth discographies, you might find this page by Ty Settlemier, one of our august member of some help - I love it!  Record labels by number, often with recording/release dates that will give you a frame of reference for much of what you may have.
http://www.78discography.com/

You may also find the 78-L Archive of some use.
http://klickitat.78online.com/pipermail/78-l/
but it doesn't have a search engine 

You got here in time for the great MJ rant, so now you know our warts as well.  If you can hang on through that, you'll have proven your mettle.  


Rodger



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--- On Sat, 6/27/09, Bart <garioch at texas.net> wrote:

From: Bart <garioch at texas.net>
Subject: [78-L] Introduction (a bit long)
To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
Date: Saturday, June 27, 2009, 4:46 PM


I joined the mailing list about 2 weeks ago and I thought I'd introduce
myself briefly.  I'm surprised at how active a list it is.  

I'm too young to have memories of the 78rpm era except for its dying echo.
I was born after, but not long after, it ended. .....