[78-L] Your 10 best records!!

[Erwin Kluwer]

My ideal 78 is the one that


has great great music

is of great historical cultural/musical importance

orginal/earliest pressing

is rare

in great shape

(examples that fit my criteria are: almost immaculate copies of King Oliver
Gennet's, first stamper/flush label G&T's Caruso, Plancon, etc,  certain
Berliners (earliest Ragtime, Black artists, "real" opera stars: Sobinov,
Didur. Kastorski, etc), certain Paramounts of course, etc to name a few...


These are quite some demands  so I buy incredible selective... I might have
the smallest collection of everybody out there.... Sometime I have to wait
for years (decades even)  for the right specimen turns up. I sometimes feel
like an archeologist seraching/digging forever, waiting for something to
show up... But when it's there I spend the money.... (I had time to save it
up anyway)...


But this is probably  just my personal distorted way of dealing with the the
end we all have to face....

Erwin





On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 6:42 AM, Cary Ginell <soundthink at live.com> wrote:

>
> We should add that there are really two types of collectors out there: the
> "music" collectors and the "object" collectors. The music collectors might
> be satisfied with a second pressing so long as the music sounds good. An
> "object" collector will take an original, noisier pressing, so long as the
> label is original. I tend to straddle that line. I'm not much of a Paramount
> guy because of the poor sound quality and prefer spending less for cleaned
> up LPs or CDs in order to get the music, however, there's nothing like
> putting an N- black Columbia on the turntable and giving it a whirl. There's
> a certain sensory satisfaction about playing particularly well-made records
> with attractive labels that no reissue, LP, or CD can duplicate. Some
> labels, like Sun or Chess, nearly always sound better on 78, unless they are
> jukeboxed so much you could probably play both sides at the same time.
>
> Cary Ginell
>
> > From: bowiebks at isomedia.com
> > To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> > Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 20:53:26 -0800
>  > Subject: Re: [78-L] Your 10 best records!!
> >
> > 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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