[78-L] Your 10 best records!!

[Steven C. Barr]

From: "Erwin Kluwer" <ekluwer at gmail.com>
> 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....
>
One immediately comes to mind (mainly because I have never seen any
documentation of it!):

I own a promotional Radiex disd which announces that
"Radiex records are now electrically recorded!" No catalog number
and no matrix numbers...just "1" and "2"...! Song titles would
suggest late 1925; I think it uses sides cut for Emerson (i.e.
their 3xxx control series?).

Other than that, I specifically avoid "rare jazz records" for two
reasons...! First. virtually all of them have been reissued; second,
my goal is AS MANY 78's as possible...and NOT the "I got
this record and you DON'T...nyah nyah nyah!"

I also own an "Okie" record which may well be the last surviving
example of this label? It is a "hillbilly" record; I suspect the label
(based in East Chicago, IN per its label) purveyed country music
to homesick "okies" working in the steel mills in/around Gary, IN?!

Oddly enough, one of my personal favourites is the original Guy
Lombardo recording of "Sweethearts On Parade" c. 1927. This
was one of my VERY first Lombardo Columbias...and I can
still perform a very good impression of Carmen's vocal...!
This was one of the first 78's I bought back c.1972!

Steven C. Barr