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

[Anthony Pavick]

Sorry - but that was released in 1956

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Thatcher Graham <thatcher at mediaguide.com> wrote:

When I frist began collecting I found a 78 of George Hamilton IV "A Rose and a Baby Ruth/If You Don't Know" on ABC-Paramount. That song came out in 1960. It was my first hint that they were pressing shellac much longer than I had assumed. -- Thatcher Graham Senior Field Engineer ph. 610-578-0800 x214 cell: 484-354-6918 fx. 610-578-0804 Mediaguide 640 Freedom Business Ctr. STE 305 King of Prussia, PA 19406 On 4/6/2011 2:01 PM, Erwin Kluwer wrote: > 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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