[78-L] had a good 78 day

[Bill McClung]

Thanks, Robert.  I live in the beautiful metropolis of Bulverde, Texas which
is about 20 miles north of San Antonio.   Don't even have one stop light.
Got a two-way stop, though.

On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 9:45 PM, Robert M. Bratcher Jr. <bratcher at pdq.net>wrote:

> 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.......
>
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