[78-L] Your 78's--WAS: Talking Machine World and / or Review [FWD]

[Mike Harkin]

--- On Sun, 2/28/10, Geoffrey Wheeler <dialjazz at verizon.net> wrote:

> From: Geoffrey Wheeler <dialjazz at verizon.net>
> Subject: [78-L]  Your 78's--WAS: Talking Machine World and / or Review
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Date: Sunday, February 28, 2010, 8:04 PM
> Steven Barr says: “Chances are that
> after your funeral, your 
> descendants will be
> carrying out all of your 78's to the curb on the next
> "garbage day"...
> to be unceremonially thrown into the maw of the next
> garbage
> truck?!”
> 
> A fate all to common, I’m afraid! A friend of mine told
> me of how the 
> family of Jack Fulton was going to dispose of his
> memorabilia. Someone 
> found out about it and rescued it before it got to the
> dumpster. My 
> friend received a number of photographs of Fulton by
> himself and Fulton 
> with the Paul Whiteman band, including in England at an
> airfield, if I 
> recall correctly. Thank god for the cultural
> interventionists who help 
> rescue history!

What'll yuo bet THEIR heirs will send records/memorabilia to the dumpster.

Mike in Plovdiv
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