[78-L] Durium Hit of the Week 'Hoard'

[Hans en Corrie Koert]

It seems as if you have mist the three Hit of the week - Durium
Discographies with 1200 different Durium records (!):
1. Hit of the week discography
2. Durium (GB) Discography
3. Durium Advertisement and custom Records discography

And a summary http://durium.opweb.nl

 Author of the discographies:

Hans 

-----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
Van: 78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com
[mailto:78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com] Namens Steven C. Barr
Verzonden: zondag 26 juli 2009 5:40
Aan: 78-L Mail List
Onderwerp: 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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