[78-L] Your 10 best records!!^

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 >LORENCE FOSTER JENKINS: VALSE CARESSANTE ($50) not on the RCA LP or CD, not listed in Melotone's brochure, possibly 4 known copies
Possibly only 4 people will admit to owning it?
DJD

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-----Original Message-----
From: David Lennick [mailto:dlennick at sympatico.ca]
Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2011 11:14 PM
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Subject: Re: [78-L] Your 10 best records!!

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 copiesENRIQUE 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.dlOn 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"> 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">>> 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>>_______________________________________________78-L mailing list78-L at klickitat.78online.comhttp://klickitat.78online.com/mailman/listinfo/78-l