[78-L] New Member

[Michael Biel]

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Subject: Re: [78-L] New Member
From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
Date: Mon, November 08, 2010 12:47 pm
To: 78-L Mail List <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>

Welcome aboard! Warning..as the Cheshire Cat said, we're all mad here.

dl

On 11/8/2010 12:39 PM, J Hudson wrote:
>
> Hello,
> I'm new to the group. I like shopping garage sales and thrift stores for records. More and more lately I've been finding 78s and while researching them, I found this group and thought I should join.
> Can anyone recommend a book or webpage for the care of 78s and a source other than the Internet for researching labels and artists?

For print materials, check the "Resource Catalog" on Kurt Nauck's site
78rpm.com  The basic books that are in print are listed there.  One of
the major publishers of discographies also has a great website with
resource articles  Mainspringpress.com    You will notice that many of
the discographies cut off in mid-1942 which was when there was a lengthy
ban on recording in the U.S. by the musicians' union, do depending on
the era you are interested in there are often two sets of guides.  If
you tell us the years you are most interested in we can lead you to
which sources might be most appropriate.  

Kurt has a bargain price on the booklet illustrating the Columbia
labels, and in a month or two there will be a FANTASTIC new book on
Victor labels.  The overall label book (ARLIE) is about to be revised
next year.

> I like old blues, jazz, country and gospel so that's what I've been buying. 

These are the areas where there is a lot of published guides and
discographies, again era dependent.  Tony Russell's country discography
goes on bargain sale often, so don't pay $104.

> There seems to be a lot of German music records, does any one know why that is?
> I pretty much just pass them by because I don't know anything about them.
> Thank you in advance > J Hudson 

Finding German records would likely be dependent on where you live!  If
in the U.S., are these American recordings of German music or German
imports?  There are some specialists in ethnic records that search them
out.  

What part of the country (or world) you live in also might offer you
chances to join groups of collectors and/or attend occasional record
shows such as the annual Jazz Record Bash and the semi-annual Mechanical
Music Shows in New Jersey. There's a new 78 store in Pittsburgh.  Next
Spring the Assoc for Recorded Sound Collections conference will be in
L.A.  These are all places to go. ARSC has monthly meetings in NYC, and
I am giving a detailed illustrated talk on pre-1940 record album covers
on Thurs Nov 18.  There's a group in Boston which has monthly meetings
but they are machine oriented -- but could be a good source of records. 


Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com