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

[David Lennick]

Andrea Walsh wrote:
> Just as an aside- as soon as I posted 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.

The sound you probably don't hear is that of record collectors frothing at the 
mouth.
> 
> 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

Mississippi Ken Griffin
Blind Lemon Griffin
Ken "Street Organ" Griffin

"Taught me everything I know1" -- Jimmy Smith

dl

> 
> 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