[78-L] had a good 78 day

[David Lennick]

"Fever" is definitely on King.

 

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> Date: Tue, 6 Apr 2010 20:31:59 -0700
> From: danvanlandingham at yahoo.com
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Subject: Re: [78-L] had a good 78 day
> 
> Were the Little Willie Johns on King?I just loved his singing.It's too bad he had to kill someone in a Seattle
> bar and die in prison.I guess he was in his early thirties.I think I liked him better than Jackie Wilson.John
> didn't do the vocal gyrations I heard Wilson do on alot of the Brunswicks he did in the '50s and early '60s
> like "To Be Loved".
> 
> 
> 
> ________________________________
> From: Bill McClung <bmcclung78 at gmail.com>
> To: 78-L Mail List <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Sent: Tue, April 6, 2010 12:59:47 PM
> 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.
>