[78-L] Two days before...

[David Lennick]

Someone contacted me a couple of years ago about downsizing his father's 
collection..sent a spreadsheet and everything! Eventually we agreed that he 
could ship them to me and I would transfer anything he wanted. As it turned 
out, all he wanted transferred were the party records..elsewhere in the load 
were two Decca albums by The Southernaires, a gorgeous set (in a slipcase) of 
West African Field Recordings, Singin' Sam's Negro Character Songs (!), a mint 
copy of the Chick Webb Memorial Album....

Then there are the folks who contact me and want discs transferred, then vanish 
without a trace. Graham Newton has run into the same situation. In one case, I 
have a pile of airchecks and transcriptions of a well-known Canadian 
broadcaster who is probably still alive but who moved and can't be located even 
through the actors' organizations. (Rod Coneybeare, where are you?)

dl

78records at cdbpdx.com wrote:
> I was at the downsizing sale of for an older Greek gentleman.  I poked around quite a bit and found a collection of Greek 78 rpm records stashed away in a cupboard.  The old fellow said he wsn't going to sell these records, he was going to see about getting them recorded.  He said they belonged to his father and he hadn't heard them for years.  I told him I'd make CDs for him if he'd sell them to me so he did.  His wife gave me an address to mail the CDs to and I took them home.  It took about a couple weeks to record them all and get them onto 6 CDs, them I mailed them.  I got a very sweet thank you note from his wife about a month later.  My wife read it and she cried (she's a sensitive lady).  
>  
> Sometimes my hobby yields rewards beyond finding great music unknown to me.
>  
> CDB
> 
> --- On Sat, 12/12/09, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca> wrote:
> 
> 
> From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Two days before...
> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Date: Saturday, December 12, 2009, 12:23 PM
> 
> 
> I get entire collections free that way. And I usually live to regret offering 
> to transfer certain items (if they want the entire load transferred, then it's 
> no deal).
> 
> dl
> 
> Ron L'Herault wrote:
>> I always offer to copy them for the sellers if they'd like.  Usually they
>> have no way to play them any longer.
>>
>> Ron L
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: 78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com
>> [mailto:78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com] On Behalf Of Glenn Longwell
>> Sent: Saturday, December 12, 2009 2:14 PM
>> To: 78-L Mail List
>> Subject: Re: [78-L] Two days before...
>>
>> It was great that you brought them back.  At estate sales when I find
>> these I usually ask if a family member is around to talk with them about
>> what they might be getting rid of.  They're fun to listen to but really do
>> belong with the family if they want it.  I'm surprised the number of times
>> people could care less.  But then sometimes they are ecstatic to know about
>> it.  One time they started screaming happily about "that's the lost
>> recording of ..."  
>>   
>> Cheers,
>> Glenn
>>
>> --- On Sat, 12/12/09, 78records at cdbpdx.com <78records at cdbpdx.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> From: 78records at cdbpdx.com <78records at cdbpdx.com>
>> Subject: Re: [78-L] Two days before...
>> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
>> Date: Saturday, December 12, 2009, 12:52 PM
>>
>>
>> I was flabbergasted when I first heard this. I was certain it was too ruined
>> to record, but there was enough to make it important.  This came in a box
>> full of home recordings accompanying a Recordio console I bought from a
>> couple at an estate sale here in Portland.  I recorded about 40 of these old
>> home records and took them back to the folks I bought it from.  Turns out
>> these were recorded by the wife's parents before she was born and covered
>> about a 10 year period from 1941 to 1952, including the birth announcement
>> of her older sister.   She was very happy to get them, she had no idea what
>> was on the records.
>>   
>> CDB
>>
>> --- On Sat, 12/12/09, Milan P Milovanovic <milanpmilovanovic4 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>> From: Milan P Milovanovic <milanpmilovanovic4 at gmail.com>
>> Subject: [78-L] Two days before...
>> To: 78-l at 78online.com
>> Date: Saturday, December 12, 2009, 7:58 AM
>>
>>
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8M3sDY8OTs
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