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

[David Lennick]

On 1/12/2011 11:32 AM, david.diehl at hensteeth.com wrote:
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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

Can you blame us?

dl
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> From: David Lennick [mailto:dlennick at sympatico.ca]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2011 11:14 PM
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> 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 k
>   ind 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 Radie
x disd which announces th
>   at>>  "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 C
>   armen'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
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