[78-L] had a good 78 day

[Bill McClung]

Well, of course, Robert.  I brought them all home and will play all the ones
I haven't heard or have forgotten I've heard.  Just because they are common
doesn't mean they aren't good.  One of my all-time favorites is "Hot Time in
the Town of Berlin" by Mr. Crosby and the Andrews Sisters.  And Mambo
Italiano back to back with Papa Loves Mambo works for me, too.  And I'd make
an argument for Sinatra on Capitol over Sinatra on Columbia but that might
take a while to sort out.  Common to my mind simply means that there are a
lot of copies out there.

What I thought was unusual was that there was a higher percentage of smaller
labels in this mix.   More Federals and Vee-Jays and Savoys and Kings and
Goldbands and others than there were Columbias and Deccas and Victors.  It's
usually the other way around by far.

On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 1:07 AM, Robert M. Bratcher Jr. <bratcher at pdq.net>wrote:

> 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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