[78-L] had a good 78 day

[Bill McClung]

I picked up about 400 78s Saturday from a fellow in Port Arthur, Texas.  He
had seen me on TV last summer and said I could have them if I would pick
them up.  I finally got there and it was worth the trip.

They were all post war.  About 150 of them were commons.  Rosemary and Perry
and Frankie and Hank and Bing and the Andrews Sisters.  The other 250 were
all blues and r&b and early rocknroll.   A dozen Jimmy Reeds and some
Lightnin' Hopkins and some John Lee Hookers and some Ray Charleses and some
Little Willie Johns and so on.

But the prizes, to me anyway, were some Texas label 78s.  Two Diamonds from
Port Arthur, a Duke I didn't have, a couple of AYOs from Houston, a Town
Lounge Club from Houston, and the first Hot Rod Record from San Antonio that
I had ever seen.   Hot Rod did Cajun music in the late 50s.  This one was by
Nathan Abshire.

Some days the hunt is worth it.  Guess I'll keep on looking.