[78-L] Jack Palmer

[Michael Biel]

Jack worked very hard to keep the memory alive of his favorite
performer, Vernon Dalhart, and it comes through in the picture from ARSC
that Steve Ramm just posted. http://tinyurl.com/29faytb  It shows Jack
giving his paper wearing a hat that says Vernon Dalhart!  And he often
wore a T-shirt with Dalhart's photo. Maybe next ARSC we should all wear
a T-shirt with Jack's photo on it in his honor!!


His last ARSC posting (an accidental message) in mid October discussed
his recent acquisition of some classical CDs -- the other side of his
interests.   And his last 78-L posting was a wry comment about a
listmember's attempt at a humorous listing of the records we would want
played at our funeral.  He often mentioned his age and infirmities, but
despite disposing of much of his long-time collection, he seems to have
amassed a thousand CDs since then!  He was still going at it!


From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> Come to think of it, my copy of the Dalhart discography is still
> with the guy who might have bought a lot of Jack's 78s.  dl

Jack did have the Dalhart collection go all to one place, didn't he?  

The obit says he was gathering materials for a second edition of the
Dalhart book.  Anybody contact the family yet to see what is going to
happen with this?

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com