[78-L] 78's at "Sally Ann"

[David Lennick]

Amazing! Especially in Oshawa. Especially in a store where you go to donate and the fellow on the desk has to ask if they take records. (I dumped two boxes of LPs there last week and no, those 78s weren't hidden among them).

 

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> From: stevenc at interlinks.net
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2010 16:29:28 -0400
> Subject: [78-L] 78's at "Sally Ann"
> 
> 78's seem to turn up at our local SA thrift shop about once a year or so; if 
> I'm not
> lucky enough to see/buy them the day (or so) after they are dumped in with 
> the
> gazillion or so LP's, all I usually find are pieces! Found two 
> to-day...oddly enough
> both of jazz interest. Only the two...no fragments to suggest there had been 
> others...?!
> 
> First was a UK Parlophone...from the "Second New Rhythm Series" (#9/#10).
> Two sides from Louis Armstrong & his Orchestra; first was a master pressing
> but the second didn't look to be such... m#405063=3/405167=B.
> 
> Second is Prestige 835; two sides by Reinhold Svensson and Quintet 
> ("Nevertheless"/
> "I Guess I'll Have To Dream the Rest").
> 
> One wonders...were these two favourite discs set aside by some 
> recently-deceased
> jazz lover...or two discs from a much larger jazz collection? If the latter, 
> then what
> happened/will happen to the remainder? Already landfill bound (then how did 
> these
> two get missed?!)...or set aside for eventual profitable sale? I know there 
> is a story
> involved...just no idea what it IS...?!
> 
> Steven C. Barr 
> 
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