[78-L] Introduction (a bit long)

[Bart]

At 05:59 PM 6/27/2009 -0700, Rodger Holtin <rjh334578 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>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/
>

Thanks.  Yes I know about that one, it's great  And the Honking Duck search
facility.  It's the best, most helpful discography I've found online,
though some smaller ones are useful for specific subjects.  I've found lots
of good useful info and used it to date a number of the discs I have, as
well as song files I've found. 

Bart