[78-L] Questions: 78 RPM production in the 1950's

[Erwin Kluwer]

Interesting observation: My dad told me that in the fifties in The
Netherlands a lot of the "less cultural" music : bebop, R&B ... actually
black music... wasn't even imported directly truogh the official channels...
You only could find Blue Note LPs or blues , etc second hand (also
in "official" record shops too). They were mostly brought in form sailors or
other people going to the US regularly (like on board of ships of the
Holland- America line). This was a kind of underground distribution
system... Even second hand Blue Note Lps were selling for 25 guilders then
which was half a month salary of a lot of people then... Almost everything
else was still on 78...Maybe not sold or dumped in the US but cherised over
here!!!

Erwin

On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 5:17 PM, Steven C. Barr <stevenc at interlinks.net>wrote:

> From: "Cary Ginell" <soundthink at live.com>
> > My favorite haunt was an old man in Fort Worth who had a barn that was
> > literally filled with nothing but 78s. There were shelves of records that
> > went up to the ceiling, piles of records in aisles waist high like snow
> > banks, and the whole place was carpeted with broken records so every time
> > you walked or moved your feet there was a crunching sound. I got lots of
> > nice stuff from him - he used Docks' first edition as a pricing guide,
> > which means I did well on Bluebirds and Vocalions. The most expensive
> item
> > I bought from him was Blind Willie McTell's "Stole Rider Blues" on Victor
> > for $40. Most everything else was less than $10. This was in the early
> 80s
> > and he has long since passed away but I always wondered what happened to
> > all those thousands of records that I left there.
> >
> This sounds a lot like Jim Hadfield's place well east of Toronto (as
> Lennick
> can attest!). He had a barn FULL of 78's and some "better" stuff in his
> house...and VERY reasonable prices as well. This is where I got my
> "Radiex records are now electrically recorded!" promo/sample record
> (which seems to be unknown otherwise...?!). Jim knew of my interest
> in GG stuff, and had set this 78 aside for me; IIRC it cost me $3...!
>
> Steven C. Barr
>
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