[78-L] Found A Good One Yesterday

[David Lennick]

The Salvation Army store in Niagara Falls NY sometimes gets nice piles of 78s. 
A few months ago I picked up 8 33RPM Theater Use ARC discs..last year the 
entire Songs Of Our Times series was in the back room..yesterday there was a 
plastic bin containing 7 or 8 albums, mostly big band but some R&B and a couple 
of Jan Savitt records I was missing, including Tuxedo Junction (also lots of 
Miller which I mostly ignored except for Sweet Potato Piper which I was once 
told was a hard one).

Their records are 4 for a buck (actually 4 for 99 cents). I went up to the 
counter and told the cashier I had 28 records, trying to make it as easy as 
possible. She could not figure how to calculate my total and thought she'd give 
me a bargain and charge me $8.95. "No" I said.."4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, 28". 
"Duh...." she said.

dl

I. Cubillo wrote:
> Mal wrote...
> 
> Subject: [78-L] Found A Good One Yesterday
> 
> 
> Hey Everyone - These kinds of finds don't happen every day & I don't expect
> it to happen again in my lifetime really, but yesterday I found a solid V+
> copy of Gennett-6311, Blackbirds of Paradise, Muddy Water/Sugar!!! After all
> these years, it was just sitting in a Victrola amidst all the regular
> records, waiting for someone like me to pluck it out! ....
> [...] Seems like most of these magic record in a Victrola stories are just
> that - one odd (but great) record in a group that have nothing in common!?!
> 
> Yes, Mal... Sometimes it happens. I've repeatedly reported the story of me
> myself, one boring and cold sunday morning (Feb. 24, 2002) at the Rastro
> (our antike-goodwill store-flea market district in Madrid) when I entered a
> cheapo' things hodge-podge store run by portugese people. Almost all in the
> shop was used clothes, old house appliances, some books, cheap surplus
> stationery material and the like. I asked for records and the woman said
> "Sure... we've got some LPs". He pointed out a rack at the deeps of the
> shop. I asked again for 78s, and she said there were some of them among the
> LPs. Surprisingly, I found just there a mint copy of Electrola EG-2606, by
> the Comedian Harmonists (Heute nacht oder nie / Auf wiedersehen my dear).
> You'll never know how rare are the CH records here in Spain, and even it was
> an original Electrola... ¿HTH that beast arrived here? Who knows!
> 
> Inigo