[78-L] Decca Discography, was Orin Blackstone

[Michael Biel]

  On 9/10/2010 11:34 PM, Cary Ginell wrote:
> Just curious - what did you pay for it? When I was in Nashville in 2004, I stopped in to the Ernest Tubb Record Shop downtown and was shocked to find TWO copies of my Decca book priced at $5 each! (It retails for over $100). It had to have been the steal of the century so I bought them both. I still have these extra copies.
>
> Cary Ginell
>

It wasn't as good as that, but $29.89 plus postage is pretty good and 
there are still two more there at that price.   Then comes $35, 40, and 
$71.80.  Then four new copies at $127 and change, then it goes into The 
Stupid Zone at $286.99.

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com


>> Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 21:49:27 -0400
>> From: mbiel at mbiel.com
>> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
>> Subject: Re: [78-L] Orin Blackstone
>>
>> On 9/10/2010 7:36 PM, Cary Ginell wrote:
>>> Just found 3 volumes of Orin Blackstone's "Index to Jazz," which was initially published by the Record Changer. Are these particularly hard to find? I've never seen a copy before, but out here on the west coast, that's probably not unusual.
>>>
>>> Cary Ginell
>> Jazz Record Mart in NYC had a set for sale last year. What I have is
>> the Greenwood Press facsimile edition. Amazon has some copies listed
>> for reasonable prices, and an original Vol 1 for almost the same as the
>> reprint of the full set.
>>
>> This search reminded me I need a copy of your Decca Hillbilly
>> discography and there are also some reasonably priced copies on Amazon
>> and I ordered one and just got a message they've shipped it.
>>
>> Mike Biel mbiel at mbiel.com
>>