[78-L] My Name Is Larry (was Shootin' Barr)

David Lennick dlennick at sympatico.ca
Sun Aug 29 09:07:08 PDT 2010


On 8/29/2010 12:04 PM, agp wrote:
> At 15:38 29/08/2010, DL wrote:
>> Ah, good old pre-Warners Rhino. Records in plain brown wrappers.
>> Records which
>> included a barf bag. Records shaped like a turtle, a fish, a Jewish star.
>> Wonderful stuff.
>
> Yeah -- its almost like the good-Rhino versus the bad-Rhino.
> Initially their compilations such as 'Have a Nice Day' with mastering
> by Bill Inglot were superb and regularly drained my wallet. Then they
> got all artsy-fartsy and downright pretentious. Their box sets of
> 'fake' 78s of 50s stuff was the nail in the coffin as far as I was concerned.
>
> T
>
I could have picked up two of those box sets for "cost" at the Trend warehouse 
in Mississauga. Now they get big bucks. Oh well.

dl




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