[78-L] First 78

[Steven C. Barr]

From: "Robert M. Bratcher Jr." <rbratcherjr at yahoo.com>
> What did you play your dads 78's on when you were 3 or 4 years old? Some 
> kind of
windup phono? A childs phonograph? Or maybe o 40's or 50's era (modern then)
electric phono? My first record player was a hand me down from the early 
50's
that my dad & his brother owned together. I don't remember much about it 
other
than it was dark brown, a changer & a tabletop model. Yes I still have the
records that I played on it when I was little but that old phono is long 
gone. I
was born in 1959 & had that record player when I was about 4 or 5 years old.
Wasn't allowed to play my dads reords back then though so you were very 
lucky.
>
No...my dad had purchased a top-of-the-line RCA Victor console 
radio-phonograph
set around 1941; this was what he (and I) played 78's on! I wish I still had 
it; AFAIK
it was discarded when the family moved from Chicago to Waynesville?!

Steven C. Barr



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From: Steven C. Barr <stevenc at interlinks.net>
To: 78-L Mail List <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Sent: Tue, December 21, 2010 7:21:54 PM
Subject: Re: [78-L] First 78

Now as far as "first 78 acquired" this is different! My father had some 300
or so 78's (which I inherited by
default...no one else wanted them...!). I was allowed to play them as a VERY
young child (of 4 or so); one
of my favourites was a Brunswick of the Mills Brothers "Good-Bye Blues" (as
well as his album-set reissues
of the Boswell Sisters!) I still own all of these (and MANY more!!). Among
the first 78's I bought
(about 25 at a flea market) was the Columbia of Guy Lombardo's "Sweethearts
On Parade;" this set
me looking for more 20's/early 30's Lombardo discs...!

Steven C. Barr



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