[78-L] Never Know What You'll Find

[David Lennick]

Before I invoke the "s" word*..were these playbacks or just commercial 
soundtrack issues?

* s-h-m-u- etc.

dl

On 9/13/2010 3:55 PM, Taylor Bowie wrote:
> When I was in 8th grade,  our school rummage sale had a huge stack of 20th
> Century Fox records of musical soundtracks...everything from Alexander's
> Ragtime Band to Orchestra Wives back to earlier stuff I can't recall.  They
> were ten cents each,  and since I  "wasn't sure" what they were,  I let 'em
> go.
>
> But...just last year I went to a house sale not too far from where I
> live...and bought about 40 one-sided pop Victors and such (1903 -1910) in as
> close to new condition as possible...and,  shades of 1965,  THEY were ten
> cents each.  But,  not willing to miss a chance to screw up,  there were
> also about fifty thick Edisons of pop stuff which I failed to look at (all
> paper labels,  many dance bands) and they were ten cents each,  too.  By the
> time I realized I'd messed up and went back,  they were long gone.
>
>
> Taylor
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Lennick"<dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> To: "78-L Mail List"<78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Sent: Monday, September 13, 2010 12:46 PM
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Never Know What You'll Find
>
>
>> On 9/13/2010 3:42 PM, Taylor Bowie wrote:
>>>
>>>> I was trying to remember when Blue Note had a subsidiary label called
>>>> Climax
>>>> before I noticed the previous reference to pre-1910 Columbias....
>>>>
>>>> Not bad stuff! Now if only it were 1965 and these were all still 10
>>>> cents
>>>> apiece.
>>>>
>>>> dl
>>>
>>> David,  in 1965 I was a widdle kid about to work my first job (Saturdays
>>> at
>>> Fillipi's Book and Record Shop,  which some of you  will remember).  As I
>>> recall,  my starting wage was $1.25 per hour,  so even at a dime each the
>>> stack of records would have cost me a lot!
>>>
>>>
>>> Taylor
>>>
>>
>> No kidding. I turned down lots of good stuff at ten cents a disc (and 25
>> cents
>> for the twelve-inchers at The Cripps, which later became Goodwill) in the
>> mid
>> 60s because of financial restraints. The one I'm still kicking myself for
>> (hard, in the head, and twice on Sundays) is the pair of Program
>> Transcriptions
>> of Carpenter's "Skyscrapers" with Nat Shilkret conducting.
>>
>> dl
>>