[78-L] Your 10 best records!!

[J. E. Knox]

Greetings from FixitLand!

Erwin Kluwer wrote:

> It's showtime!!
>
> Please list your 10 most rare, expensive, one of a kind records...
>
> Be as exhibitionistic, unashamed and totally out to drive people to  
> outright
> sickjealousy as humanly possible....

Oof. Do I *have* ten "most rare, expensive, one-of-a-kind records"?

Lessee...I have at least ten Columbia test pressings of unissued  
Benny Goodman takes, and several other unissued tests by other  
artists; does that count?

I paid more than I probably should have for at least four single 78s  
(Victor 20944, 22960; Columbia 3051-D, 3058-D); does that count? (A  
few years ago I was, at $1275, high bidder for BG's "Pop-Corn  
Man" [Victor 25808] on the Dock-o'-the-'Bay for about thirty  
seconds...<grin>...It was a pretty heady experience that won't EVER  
be duplicated!)

At least three, maybe four items in my collection have "book" values  
(whatever that means) over $100, though I didn't pay anywhere near  
that for 'em; does that count?

Russ Connor sez (in his BG books) that only one copy is known of an  
August 1936 white-label recording ("Here's Love In Your Eye"/"Night  
In Manhattan") stemming from the film "The Big Broadcast of 1937." I  
have a (the?) copy; does that count?

Most of my 25,000-item cache are run-of-the-mill big-band, swing, hot  
dance or plain-ol' pop sides that don't fit your criteria.

As for the subject line...are any of the above my "best" records?  
Dunno. I play others more frequently. To paraphrase a common saying:  
"Best" is in the ear of the listener.

> My list will follow soon...

Looking forward to it!

Take care,



Joe
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