[78-L] Now's your chance, boys and girls

Wed Nov 4 12:26:03 PST 2009

Steve,

   That's all it was....my personal view......thanks for your welcome and kind comment. Yes, I've certainly encountered some "thin-skinners" on the board, but hoped, perhaps, that there were a great many 78 rpm enthusiasts here who didn't take the hobby so seriously. Let's face it, it's a HOBBY, such as stamp collecting, film collecting and so forth....When a hobby becomes such a serious matter that we lose sight of reality, then it's best to take a step back and realize what matters most in life.

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From: Steve Thornton <fnarf at comcast.net>
To: 78-L Mail List <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Sent: Thu, November 5, 2009 3:01:57 AM
Subject: Re: [78-L] Now's your chance, boys and girls

Wow, you folks got some thin skins. I didn't see any snark in Jason's post
at all. I thought he was trying to be clever, and paying you a compliment in
the process. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: 78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com 
> [mailto:78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com] On Behalf Of 
> David Lennick
> Sent: Wednesday, November 04, 2009 11:53 AM
> To: 78-L Mail List
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Now's your chance, boys and girls
> 
> For a newcomer, you certainly have more than your fair share 
> of snarkiness. I 
> don't have to justify my opinions of Mr. Bernstein to you or 
> anyone else. I 
> bring 40 years of professional work as a music programmer, 
> classical deejay, 
> record producer, reissue transfer engineer, reviewer, liner 
> note writer et al. 
> Don't like my opinions? Don't read 'em. I won't be reading 
> any of yours.
> 
> dl
> 
> Jason Beard wrote:
> > I am truly impressed at your almost encyclopedic knowledge 
> of, as you refer to him, "Lenny's" career, even though you 
> wrote that you "...have very little respect for (him) as a 
> musician, a composer and a human being...." Everyone whom you 
> dislike should be given such a high honor; please feel free 
> to subtly, yet briefly, vent your anger toward "Lenny" in 
> this thread, WHICH, I believe, began as a thread for Vogue 
> Picture Records.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > ________________________________
> > From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> > To: 78-L Mail List <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> > Sent: Wed, November 4, 2009 1:25:41 PM
> > Subject: Re: [78-L] Now's your chance, boys and girls
> > 
> > You find me anyone who hasn't referred to him as "Lenny" 
> over the last 60 years 
> > and I'll buy you lunch. He even worked as "Lenny Amber" while doing 
> > arrangements for Harms in his early years.
> > 
> > Incidentally, I have very little respect for Leonard 
> Bernstein as a musician, a 
> > composer and a human being. I find many of his later 
> performances eccentric and 
> > unlistenable, I find much of his symphonic work derivative 
> and full of outright 
> > plagiarism, and I think the man had blood on his hands. 
> That aside, he still 
> > turned out a couple of theatrical masterpieces.
> > 
> > dl
> > 
> > Jason Beard wrote:
> >> David,
> >>
> >>      It's indeed an honor to learn that you were of such 
> a great acquaintance with Mr. Bernstein, that you felt free 
> to address him as 'Lenny". Not many of us are in your league.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> ________________________________
> >> From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> >> To: 78-L Mail List <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> >> Sent: Wed, November 4, 2009 11:41:21 AM
> >> Subject: Re: [78-L] Now's your chance, boys and girls
> >>
> >> It's of its time. Anybody could and did play the Rhapsody 
> in Blue. Even today, 
> >> there are versions of it that are unbelievably ghastly, 
> some of them by well 
> >> known artists who should have known better (Lenny 
> Burnsteen being the worst 
> >> offender, Andre Previn coming in second, with a special 
> award going to every 
> >> Paul Whiteman version with the distorted rhythms and the 
> heavenly choir). 
> >> Spitalny's choral sides make me to barf, but again, 
> they're of the period.
> >>
> >> dl
> >>
> >> Jason Beard wrote:
> >>> I disagree...from the little I've heard, I recommend it 
> to lovers of great music. 
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> ________________________________
> >>> From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> >>> To: 78-L Mail List <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> >>> Sent: Tue, November 3, 2009 7:14:22 PM
> >>> Subject: Re: [78-L] Now's your chance, boys and girls
> >>>
> >>> The Spitooney set is one of the most common..although 
> I've never found it in 
> >>> the box. In an album, a couple of times..as individual 
> discs, a couple of 
> >>> times..and the Rhapsody issued separately, once.
> >>>
> >>> Some Vogues are even worth listening to. The Study in 
> Blue isn't one of them. 
> >>> One that is is Enric Madriguera's "Minute Samba" which 
> has a neat little fiddle 
> >>> & guitar chorus reminiscent of Grappelli & Django.
> >>>
> >>> dl
> >>>
> >>> Jason Beard wrote:
> >>>> I SERIOUSLY doubt that the seller will receive thier 
> asking price. If not, just wait them out.....eventually, 
> they'll realize that their price is a dream, and just 
> that...a dream. Let's cool our thoughts for a while, but BOY, 
> would I love to own the phonograph! In this life, NEVER say 
> never...and the seller will ship from Switzerland, is it? 
> SERIOUS thoughts of ill-packing possible...broken 
> discs...etc. I own one of the sets...by Phil Spitalny and his 
> All-Girl Orchestra...in the original "box". I paid the lavish 
> price of (drumroll please....) $2.00. EXCELLENT 
> condition...no scratches or scuffs. The illustration work on 
> that set is incredible, ESPECIALLY on "Blue Skies".
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> ________________________________
> >>>> From: "fnarf at comcast.net" <fnarf at comcast.net>
> >>>> To: 78-L Mail List <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> >>>> Sent: Tue, November 3, 2009 5:12:53 PM
> >>>> Subject: Re: [78-L] Now's your chance, boys and girls
> >>>>
> >>>> Dang, these "selling as a lot only, don't ask about 
> pieces" people are stupid.
> >>>>
> >>>> The number of people who are hot to get ahold of a 
> complete collection of Vogues, but currently have zero of 
> them, has got to be zero. EVERYBODY with any interest in any 
> part of this wants more parts, to fill his gaps, not the whole. 
> >>>>
> >>>> Some of those items are indeed spectacularly rare, and 
> undoubtedly worth a lot. You get two guys with everything 
> except those "ultra rare" items listed going against each 
> other, and you've got yourself an auction. But they're not 
> going to bid on a complete lot.
> >>>>
> >>>> The ONLY person who's going to bid on this is a dealer 
> with deep pockets looking to break the set up, IF he looks at 
> the list and sees a profit there as single items. This seller 
> here could have that profit for himself if he had a brain.
> >>>>
> >>>> Won't sell.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> ----- Original Message -----
> >>>> From: "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> >>>> To: "78L" <78-L at 78online.com>
> >>>> Sent: Tuesday, November 3, 2009 1:53:49 PM GMT -08:00 
> US/Canada Pacific
> >>>> Subject: [78-L] Now's your chance, boys and girls
> >>>>
> >>>> Got $300,000 lying around? And that's the STARTING bid.
> >>>>
> >>>> http://tinyurl.com/yl3xx4n
> >>>>
> >>>> dl
> >>>>
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