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

[Taylor Bowie]

They were those white label 20th Cen Fox things,  with the info typed on the 
label...mostly laminated,  as I recall...perhaps pressed by MacGregor?

T


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
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Sent: Monday, September 13, 2010 1:03 PM
Subject: Re: [78-L] Never Know What You'll Find


> 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
>>>
>
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