[78-L] First 78's

[George Anglin]

In the late forties, my folks were square dancers and my dad sang with the barbershop quartet group. Their records reflected these interests and they were always playing their records and I became fascinated with western swing, quartet singing and hot dance music especially twenties and thirties dance bands and of course the peerless and the american quartet which were very common on victor during the teens and early twenties. My collection contains about 8000 records and I file using 3 by 5 inch cards by artist and copying down the record numbers and the titles. I don't cross index. I file the records by label, earliest first to the latest. I'm computer savvy however I've used the card {library} system for nearly 55 years now and can't be bothered with changing anything. Yes, I'm still collecting and thanks to you-all for the reminiscing and information about your collections. George Anglin  

--- On Tue, 12/21/10, Steven C. Barr <stevenc at interlinks.net> wrote:From: Steven C. Barr <stevenc at interlinks.net>
Subject: Re: [78-L] First 78
To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Date: Tuesday, December 21, 2010, 7:21 PM

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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