[78-L] Best way to clean 78s

[David Lennick]

Part of an off-list correspondence between Jamie and myself. Not to worry. Go 
on with your daily lives.

dl

On 12/30/2010 12:49 AM, Jamie Kelly wrote:
> I'm the last unit yes that was lucky....
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: 78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com
> [mailto:78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com] On Behalf Of David Lennick
> Sent: Thursday, 30 December 2010 4:24 PM
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> Subject: Re: [78-L] Best way to clean 78s
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> There's one version of Uncle Tom's Cabin which goes out of its way to be as
> filthy as possible. This is the one with piano accompaniment. There are a
> couple of others (one by "The Odele Sisters" if I'm recalling correctly)
> that
> are also pointlessly filthy.
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> And then there are those Sonora Victor pressings, which nothing will clean
> up...
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> dl
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> On 12/29/2010 11:49 PM, Robert M. Bratcher Jr. wrote:
>> I heard one or two on Youtube that were too dirty (in language) for my
> personal
>> tastes.
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>> ________________________________
>> From: Steven C. Barr<stevenc at interlinks.net>
>> To: 78-L Mail List<78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
>> Sent: Wed, December 29, 2010 8:45:27 PM
>> Subject: Re: [78-L] Best way to clean 78s
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>> From: "Robert M. Bratcher Jr."<rbratcherjr at yahoo.com>
>>> Ya know, I'd love to hear just how dirty a party record can get. Never
>>> heard one
>> before.....
>>>
>> I learned (and still perform given the chance) a blues tune from a Party
>> record! The
>> original was on the "Whiz" label...and showed only its title "Garbage
> Man!"
>> The
>> lyrics are more suggestive than obscene ("Up the hill I pushed a cart -
>> pushed it
>> so hard it made me [silence]"). I re-wrote them in a similar fashion (I
> sing
>> "F...reeze")
>> and "covered" the result on my second blues-CD release!
>>
>> Alsonote that David Diehl has a web site "The Blue Pages" devoted to party
>> records!
>>
>> Steven C. Barr
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