[78-L] had a good 78 day

[Bill McClung]

There was so much there I forgot to say that there were a couple of Khourys
and a half-dozen Goldbands in the batch.  Southeast Texas and southwestern
Louisiana are really fun to hunt.

On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 3:53 PM, Matthew Duncan
<recordgeek334578 at yahoo.com>wrote:

> All sounds great...always have liked Mr Abshire...I have several 45s by him
> but no 78s...apparently the Khourys ones of his are pretty scarce....in fact
> 78s on Khourys by anyone aren't often seen..same with Goldband and Folk
> Star..I have several of those, mainly rockabilly/hillbilly
> orientated....but scarcity may be partly because Mr Shuler used old 78s
> stock as foundations for a driveway in the 60s??!!  Don't know if the story
> is true though...!
>
> Cheers
> Matthew
> UK.
>
>
>
>
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> From: Bill McClung <bmcclung78 at gmail.com>
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> Subject: [78-L] had a good 78 day
>
> 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.
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