[78-L] had a good 78 day

[Robert M. Bratcher Jr.]

At 02:02 AM 4/7/2010, you wrote:
>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.

I'd expect you to. Where do you live anyway? I'm in northwest Houston.

>   Just because they are common
>doesn't mean they aren't good.

I've found some very good "common" records in my listening days.

>   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.

Yes they are both very good recordings on 78 rpm.

>   And I'd make
>an argument for Sinatra on Capitol over Sinatra on Columbia but that might
>take a while to sort out.

I won't try to argue one label over the other as I like Sinatra on both.

>   Common to my mind simply means that there are a
>lot of copies out there.

Yes your exactly right.

>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.

That free record haul I had of 78's awhile back in one of the towns 
south of Houston had more of the big labels & fewer of the smaller 
labels in it but I didn't complain.


>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.......