[78-L] had a good 78 day

Robert M. Bratcher Jr. bratcher at pdq.net
Tue Apr 6 23:07:12 PDT 2010


At 10:04 PM 4/6/2010, you wrote:
>--------------------------------------------------
>From: "Bill McClung" <bmcclung78 at gmail.com>
> > 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.

I would have kept the Andrews Sisters discs plus the early rock & 
roll if that was my record haul. The rest would get played over time 
& maybe they'd be some nice records in there but the only way to find 
out is to play them....... 




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