[78-L] Average age

[Dan Van Landingham]

The only thing I still have no clue of in terms of actual monetary value are 
what few Glenn Miller 78s I do
have in my collection like my Brunswick copy of "Sweet Stranger".I had Les 
Docks' book on 78s and 

he claimed Miller's records had no value to speak of.I guess it was due to the 
fact RCA had constantly
reissued everything the man recorded between 1938 and '42.What I am wondering 
about is the one 10
record set I bought at a Salvation Army thrift store in Coos Bay,Oregon a couple 
of years ago.The rec-
ord is the silver "collector's series".I had several different "collector's 
series" 10 inch albums at one time
by Bunny Berigan,Muggsy Spanier plus an RCA 10 inch album of George Gershwin 
doing the 1927 v-
ersion of "Rhapsody in Blue" with the 1929 version of "An American in Paris" on 
the reverse.I gave that
album to Skeets Herfurt around thirty years ago as he played in an orchestra 
where Gershwin conducted.
As I understand it,that was around 1936 when Skeets was with Jimmy Dorsey doing 
the movie 'Pennies
From Heaven" with Bing Crosby and Satchmo.He told me how the bass clarinetist 
wasn't playing his 

part correctly and Skeets played it for him.The man wasn't punching out the bass 
clarinet part.As for
Miller,I surmise it's his fan base who buys his records.The aforementioned 10 
record set came out arou-
nd the time of the "Glenn Miller Story".The set was bound in a glosssy white 
vinyl and was in two voluu-
mes.I also had it in 45 set but that album was incomplete and dated from 1955 as 
it had the glossy black
label with the logo in colour with lettering in silver.The set was of Miller 
radio programmes from 1938 t-
hrough 1942.




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From: Steven <stevenc at interlinks.net>
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Sent: Thu, November 11, 2010 3:45:54 PM
Subject: Re: [78-L] Average age

From: Michael Biel 
> From: Donna Halper <dlh at donnahalper.com>
> > I would imagine that like stamp collecting, most 78 collectors are 
> > baby boomers or older, since they are the ones who probably grew up 
> > in homes that had 78s or where they were encouraged to have a hobby 
> > like stamp collecting.
>
> Stamp collectors have also noted the lack of young stamp collectors. 
They don't see stamps anymore.  In fact, they don't see MAIL anymore!!!!
>
The basic fact is this...if ANYTHING exists in a reasonable number of
easily discerned varieties, SOMEwhere there will be SOMEone who
sets out to acquire an example of each! This has been further
confused by 21st century reality...which states that SOMEone(s)
will set up a business selling the aforesaid items at a significant
profit (and that some other <deleted? will publish an "Official
Price Guide"thereunto...?!).

Steven C. Barr
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