[78-L] Canadian Hit-of-the-Week?

[Taylor Bowie]

Which is the Hit-of-the-Week "aimed" at Canadians?

Taylor


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steven C. Barr" <stevenc at interlinks.net>
To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Sent: Saturday, July 25, 2009 8:39 PM
Subject: Re: [78-L] Durium Hit of the Week 'Hoard'


> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <78records at cdbpdx.com>
>> Just bought a collection of about 600 78s and found a small 'hoard' of 40
>> or so Durium 'Hit of the Week' records. 14 have sleeves, I've never seen
>> those before, and 7 of those with artists pictures on the back, blew me
>> away. View them at:
>> http://78records.cdbpdx.com/HOTW/
>> Most are in pretty good condition, a couple have significant creases and
>> all are 'warped', though the surfaces on them remain quite glossy and
>> uncracked. My collection previously had a half dozen or so really 
>> crackled
>> examples, this group is way more than I'd hoped to find.
>>
> I have almost ALL of the HOTW discs! The main problem one encounters with
> these is
> cases where the paper "base" has been so badly creased/bent that the
> "durium" layer
> is actually "broken"...giving the same effect as a cracked shellac 78!
>
> There were a bit over a hundred HOTW issues...these were listed in Record
> Research.
> The hardest to acquire are those among the first few issues; there was 
> also
> one HOTW
> specifically aimed at us Canadians...which MAY well be scarce "south of 
> the
> border"...?!
>
> Those original sleeves are actually MUCH rarer than the discs themselves;
> the latter
> were usually included in stacks/piles of phonorecords, where they were
> generally
> missed/ignored...while the former were most usually thrown away!
>
> Steven C. Barr
>
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