[78-L] Here is the article on Tefteller and Paramount from the NYTimes

[Steven C. Barr]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Ramm" <steveramm78l at hotmail.com>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/12/arts/music/12petr.html  Steve
>
Interesting...but this is a branch of 78 collecting which I can't afford...
nor do I EVER expect to afford...to join?!

I shall have to modify my quest...?! Right now, it is "EF78REM," but
I'll have to revise that to "EF78REM worth <$10"...?! I mean, I
LOVE blues and blues records...but paying a goodly part of a year's
income for a blues rarity would leave me too nervous to fall asleep
nights for fear that Ecru (the ecru cat) might step on it or knock it
to the floor...?!

As of right now, I own something close to 55,050 78rpm phonorecords,
with almost NO "rarities"...the closest thing I have to that is a curious
Radiex promo disc which announces that Radiex records (Radiaces?)
are "Now Electrically Recorded!" The tunes are late-1925...and it
uses matrix numbers in a special series (1/2?!)...but neither GG nor
ERL had totally electrified their recording by "late 1925"...?! Interesting,
and apparently VERY rare (no other "GG experts" had heard of such
a record...?!)...but unlikely to EVER sell for a five-figure price?!

I have several hundred blues 78's...almost all post-WWII. I like the
music thereon...but NONE would sell for thousands of dollars (FINE
with me?!)...!

However, I may have the ONLY surviving example of my Okie record...
or even ANY Okie record...?! Since the music world is nowhere NEARLY
as interested in "hillbilly" records as blues records (the rock stars of the
sixties...and thus the childhood of all the "baby boomers"...gave blues
a special importance...it MAY(?) have deserved?!)...I probably won't
live long enough to turn down $50K offers for my Okie disc?!

I'd just as soon that 78 collecting NOT drift into the "money madness"
that afflicts...usually temporarily...all too many collecting hobbies...?!
As I type this, there are probably countless fools who are STILL
hanging onto a "Beanie Baby" (TM Reg) with a PUCE tag instead of
the more common mauve tag...expecting to sell the dommed thing
and retire on the proceeds?!

SCROOM!!

...stevenc