[78-L] Your 10 best records!!

[Taylor Bowie]

I'm more or less in sympathy with Mr. Barr on the subject of the famous jazz 
rarities.  It's not that I don't want 'em,  but...I usually can't bring 
myself to pay hundreds of dollars for some classic Morton or Oliver or 
whatever when for the same kind of money I might buy a dozen or more really 
fine dance band records which haven't and most likely won't be reissued.

There are exceptions,  of course,  but that's been my general pattern of 
behavior for some time.

One of the exceptions:  I did pay a shit-load for a N- copy of the Celestin 
Columbia of "It's Jam Up" as that is a record that really presses all my 
buttons...in a good way.

Taylor




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steven C. Barr" <stevenc at interlinks.net>
To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2011 8:38 PM
Subject: Re: [78-L] Your 10 best records!!


> 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
>
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