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

[David Lennick]

The only recording I've ever seen by the Havana Philharmonic is a Dvorak New 
World that Obie put out on all his labels (Masterpiece, Philharmonic, World's 
Greatest etc). What are the Overtures? Didn't know about these (and Sonora 
reissued a number of Obie titles).

I hit about ten milk crates of 78s yesterday at a store whose location I'll 
withhold until the one person I advised has a chance to look there. Lots of 20s 
and 40s stuff, mostly routine but one Lizzie Miles on Brunswick and one item on 
a label I've never seen before, "New Comfort". New Comfort Talking Machine Co, 
Cedar Rapids, IA. #5009 "Whispering" b/w "Kismet", with NO ARTIST CREDIT! 
Matrix numbers are 1115C and 1114A, if anyone can trace these.

dl

On 9/16/2010 11:30 AM, bradc944 at comcast.net wrote:
> GREAT STUFF!!  Especially the Bunk Johnson Band records... been looking for more of that type of thing around here in Denver...
>
> The John Keating transcriptions, those were made in Portland, used to have a 2-disc set of Churchill's speech to Congress that was recorded by the shop (8 dec 1941 date) that was I believe recorded off-air from either KOIN or KGW/KGON (can't remember which one, but it would have been either a CBS or NBC broadcast and, if I remember correctly, KOIN was CBS and KGW or KGON... I think KGW... was NBC, or their wartime equivalents... see thoughts farther down...).  I had it up on sale for consignment in Phoenix years ago and it disappeared, without me receiving any payment.  Ah well...
>
> Also, if I remember my history, the Keating transcription service did a lot of work by and for the radio business in  the Portland area...
>
> Wartime radio... KGON, not the FM outlet it is now, but looking at older newspapers, was I *believe* the NBC Blue Network outlet in Portland, with KGW being the NBC Red Network outlet.  Also, if my foggy memory serves me, KGON was affiliated with KGO in San Francisco, hence the call being KGON, or KGO-North.  This may be conjecture, but it's still a fun conjecture :)
>
> My latest find at the goodwills? a 3-disc Sonora set of classical overtures recorded by the Havana Philharmonic Orchestra. 2 are recorded, but as I picked up the 3rd disc to do it this morning, a nasty cookie bite made itself known. Scuppers! Now I have to do the trick of taking a LOT of time to get that disc done by slow-playing and a lot of digital cutting.  Ah well...
>
> Cheers!
>
> Brad
>
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> Sent: Wed, 15 Sep 2010 03:52:27 -0000 (UTC)
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Never Know What You'll Find
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>
> Thanks, everybody, for all the info and comments about these records!
>
> I finally posted some pictures of the labels from this collection.  There is a 'Miracle Derby' record which I suspect is one of those fun records with 5 different endings.  Haven't had time to play it yet.
>
> The labels can be viewed at:
>
> http://78records.cdbpdx.com/New09-13-10/
>
> There is a Party Record, a Sterling label Monte Easter, 3 John Keating transcriptions from 1941 played (and made??) here in Portland, a couple Lighthouse labels, a couple MGM Hank Williams in better condition than any others in my collection, a Roy Milton label (never knew he had his own label), 3 ZON-O-PHONEs including a 9" #6036, 5 12" Climax labels #101 - 105, many labels I've not seen before.
>
> Comments??
>
> CDB
>
>
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>> From: 78records at cdbpdx.com
>> Subject: [78-L] Never Know What You'll Find
>> To: 78-l Online<78-l at 78online.com>
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>> Stopped in a little record store in downtown Grants Pass
>> (Oregon) Saturday and didn't find any 78s, but he directed
>> me to an antique store on 6th and 'G'.  There I found a
>> collection of about 1000 78s and I picked up about 150 of
>> them, including 10 pre-1910 Columbia labels and a dozen or
>> so 12" Blue Note and subsidiary Climax label records.
>> Also, lots of labels I've never seen before.  Picked up
>> a couple Japanese records, too.  Got Paul Whiteman
>> playing the theme from Gone With The Wind (made in Japan)
>> plus another in Japanese, AND a bunch of 49th STATE Hawaiian
>> labels with original sleeves.  I'll post pictures of
>> the most interesting labels in a day or so.
>>
>> There were also 5 American Music label records with Bunk
>> Johnson, George Lewis, and Jim Robinson.  Kind of tough
>> finding a discography for these, apparenetly they were
>> reissued a couple times as 78s and LPs up into the
>> 1970s.  As I understand it, some were reissued as 78s
>> in the 1960s??  The records I got are all 12" dia have
>> a V-??? number with an additional 3 didgit number at the top
>> of the label.  I'm sure they are vinyl.  These
>> could be the late reissues??
>>
>> The Goodwill Store next to the record shop had a small pile
>> of 78s and I found 3 ZON-O-PHONEs, including my first brown
>> 9" example.  Doesn't have a record number on it, plus
>> another 49th State label Hawaiian disc.
>>
>> Total expenditure - $163.75
>>
>> Pretty exciting stuff!  CDB
>>
>>