[78-L] I am also Gull-able [FWD]

[Mike Harkin]

One country's rarity is another country's novelty salad bowl!

Mike in Plovdiv
--- On Wed, 7/15/09, Michael Biel <mbiel at mbiel.com> wrote:

> From: Michael Biel <mbiel at mbiel.com>
> Subject: Re: [78-L] I am also Gull-able
> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Date: Wednesday, July 15, 2009, 10:07 PM
> From: "Taylor Bowie" <bowiebks at isomedia.com>
> > I don't think there is any "family" of labels from the
> 20s
> > and early 30s that is more curious and contains more
> musical
> > "surprises" (good and bad!) than does good old Grey
> Gull and Friends. 
> 
> I've told this story before, but when noted Danish
> collector and
> historical expert George Brock-Nannestad made his first
> visit to the
> U.S. in the early 80s, his first stop was at my
> house.  I had to finish
> off grading some final exams, so I let him loose in the
> basement.  Much
> to my surprise when I stopped down there for a break about
> a half-hour
> later he was looking intently at the box of Grey Gull
> family records.  I
> asked him what was so interesting about that junk to
> him.  He said that
> he had often read about them in Europe had never come
> across any of them
> yet.  The following year when I was visiting him in
> Denmark I found
> myself looking thru all the unusual Nordic labels that we
> never see in
> the U.S. but were common trash over in Europe.  It's
> part of what makes
> world traveling fun -- sightseeing in record stores. 
> (Leah just said
> "Absolutely!")
> 
> Mike (we also crave Milka chocolate) Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com   
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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