[78-L] They are practically Giving away the Vitaphone DVD set!

[David Lennick]

I really have to start checking out Big Lots. Even if the stuff they carry is 
bootlegged as I've heard some of it is. I picked up the Broadway Melody disc a 
few years ago because I'd heard about the "extras", which are not noted at all 
on the outside cover..nice way to induce collectors to buy the stuff.

dl

Mark S. Chester wrote:
> Thanks to this reminder, I went to the site and ordered the set, for a net
> price of $29.96. While I was there, I put a couple of other items into my
> shopping cart that relate to my interest in pre-swing era music and
> performers: "It's a Great Life" with the Duncan Sisters, and "Hollywood
> Revue of 1929," which contains the first performance of "Singing in the
> Rain," as performed by Cliff Edwards (and the entire company.) Net price
> after discount of $15.96 each.
> 
> I also recently acquired (elsewhere) "The Broadway Melody", the 1929 Best
> Picture which contains performances of the Freed-Brown song of that name, as
> well as "The Wedding of the Painted Doll", "The Boy Friend," and of course,
> "You Were Meant for Me."
> 
> The bonus features on that DVD include FIVE "Metro Movietone Revues" and a
> couple of other shorts that include three songs by Van and Schenck ("If You
> Want to Miss Heaven on Earth, Stay Out of the South", "Chinese Firecracker"
> and "Way Down South in Heaven"), two performances by Johnny Marvin ("I Still
> Love You" and "If You Don't Love Me") one by the Happiness Boys ("Jump,
> Fritz, I Feed You Liver") as well as several other contemporary
> vaudevillians, including Ginger Rogers' first husband Jack Pepper.
> 
> The "Broadway Melody" disc is currently available at Big Lots for $3... I
> snapped a bunch of them up.
> 
> Mark S. Chester
> Phoenixville, PA
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: 78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com
> [mailto:78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com] On Behalf Of Steve Ramm
> Sent: Saturday, December 05, 2009 6:23 PM
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Subject: [78-L] They are practically Giving away the Vitaphone DVD set!
> 
> Sorry for a second posting on this but Warners put the set on sale this week
> with double discounts. It's 25% off the $49.95 price and it you use a coupon
> code it's another 20% off! and FREE shipping. That's $29.65 (approx.) for
> the SIX DVD set with 11 hours of Vitaphones or about 50 cents per 10 minute
> RARE Vitaphone short.
> 
> Steve Ramm 		 	   		  
>