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

[Andrea Walsh]

Just as an aside- as soon as Iposted a link to this article on my facebook,
I got a message from someone who had their parent's collection of 78s and
wanted to know what a certain Ken Griffin record was worth.

I had to gently bring his hopes back down to earth, I think- but this kind
of article will bring out these kinds of hopes in people, won't it?

All those elusive valuable Mississippi Ken Griffin rarities, heh...

Andrea

On Sat, Jul 11, 2009 at 7:50 PM, Steven C. Barr <stevenc at interlinks.net>wrote:

> ----- 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
>
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