[78-L] Silly Season on eBay

[simmonssomer]

Well, The Triangle Club Orchestra comprised of Princeton undergraduate 
musicians made some pretty
decent jazz records on "P" Columbias. One or two of them even featured 
Jimmie Stewart 's shaky vocalizing.

Al Simmons

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steven C. Barr" <stevenc at interlinks.net>
To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2011 11:07 PM
Subject: Re: [78-L] Silly Season on eBay


> From: "agp" <agp2176 at verizon.net>
>> This one boggles my mind
>>
>> The description on it says:
>>
>> Personal Record; 126-P 2 people we probably don't know
>>
>> The  URL is:
>>
> Point is (which the seller probably doesn't know...?!) that ANYBODY
> with the necessary funds could have a "Personal Record" made by
> Columbia (or several other record companies...!). How GOOD the
> artist was/wasn't was NOT a factor...all the company wanted was
> the money...! The resulting 78's are only of interest to 
> "ultra-collectors"
> like myself...whose aim is, as Lennick puts it, EFREM!! In my own
> case, that should be EF78(n-c)REM..."n-c" meaning NON-classical...!
>
> Steven C. Barr
> And no, I'm not planning on bidding on this...my experience with "xBay"
> has been a sad litany of losing to bidders with "autosnipe" apps...!
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