[78-L] Your 10 best records!!

[David Lennick]

I have paid BEEG bucks on a few occasions (or persuaded the label to foot the 
cost) for records I needed in compilations. Such as..

ETHEL MERMAN: I GOTTA RIGHT TO SING THE BLUES/SATAN'S LI'L LAMB ($50)

VICTOR CONCERT ORCHESTRA: TWO AMERICAN SKETCHES/SONG OF THE BAYOU, signed by 
composers, white label ($50)

FLORENCE FOSTER JENKINS: VALSE CARESSANTE ($50) not on the RCA LP or CD, not 
listed in Melotone's brochure, possibly 4 known copies

ENRIQUE FERNANDEZ ARBOS/MADRID SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: EL ALBAICIN (Spanish 
Columbia 78, missing from US issues of "Iberia", impossible to find) ($50)

And I've traded with Kurt for much higher values on items loike the Rudolph 
Valentino and Laurel & Hardy records.

dl

On 1/11/2011 11:53 PM, Taylor Bowie wrote:
> 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
>>