[78-L] Al Jazzbo Collins Brunswick Record Sleeve

[David Lennick]

Anyone know what 59 cents in 1959 would be worth today? At that, I had to 
haggle because it was in a bin marked "49 cents" and they claimed that part of 
the price tag on the bin had come off, the part that said "and up".

dl

78records at cdbpdx.com wrote:
> Your mint copy cost 59c fifty years ago, mine cost considerably more last Sunday and is not mint.  I had to shell out 75c for mine.
> 
> CDB
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> --- On Thu, 2/4/10, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca> wrote:
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> From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Al Jazzbo Collins Brunswick Record Sleeve
> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Date: Thursday, February 4, 2010, 8:11 AM
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> 
> The Brunswick release WAS pressed on good vinyl, in the US..Canada got 
> shellacked. I found that Jazzbo record, mint, in the original sleeve, in 1959 
> or '60 at Fred Roden's on Bathurst St. in Toronto for 59 cents (the US 
> pressing). His Capitols were harder to find and probably never issued in Canada.
> 
> dl
> 
> Geoffrey Wheeler wrote:
>> These recordings for Hip Kids are great fun! When the stories first 
>> appeared in Down Beat, they caused a great sensation among my friends 
>> in high school. I had shared my copies of Down Beat with them. Some 
>> even bought the records, although I didn’t at the time. Later, I 
>> acquired the Jazzbo Collins with sleeve, and in 2007 while in 
>> Stratford, Canada acquired Brunswick 80231 with Steve Allen narrating 
>> “Jack and the Beanstalk” and “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.” I would 
>> say CDB was lucky to find an intact sleeve for the Jazzbo. Brunswick 
>> touted Brunlite as being “unbreakable Under Normal Use,” but then isn’t 
>> every 78?
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