[78-L] Music preferences

[David Lennick]

Isn't that a Harry Reser group?

dl

On 11/7/2011 2:34 PM, J. E. Knox wrote:
> Greetings from FixitLand!
>
> David London wrote:
>
>> I am just getting time to renew my interest in 78s and the old
>> sounds they
>> contain.  I find I am enjoying quite a range of stuff, although I
>> am not
>> sure my wife is happy with some of what I am playing :) I see it as
>> a good
>> thing, because I am not caring too much about collectability, hence
>> I can
>> buy them cheaply.
>>
>> For example, I just played and liked
>>
>> Mine - all mine,  Lee Sims, Brunswick
>> Dashing Dragoons March, Parlophone Military Orch., Parlophone
>> Valencia, Franklyn Baur, Brunswick
>> Tiptoe through the Tulips, George Sorlie, Parlophone
>> My Bonnie Heilen Maggie, Sandy MacFarlane, Brunswick
>> Tie me to your Apron Strings again, Volunteer Firemen, Brunswick
>>
>> Also I have a lot of early orchestra, Big Band, and Jazz records. Then
>> there's the classical, especially 12" 78 sets and opera.
>>
>> I'll be reading posts on this list more now as well.  Just
>> wondering if
>> others consider some of this stuff worth listening to as well.
>
> Some, yes. I too like that Volunteer Firemen record of "Tie Me To
> Your Apron Strings Again" -- your mention of it prompts me to plan on
> transferring it. My tastes tend to 1920s hot dance and jazz,
> 1930s-'40s swing/big-band/jazz; not so much for the classical stuff
> though I have certain likes in that genre. Pop vocalists I can take
> or leave.
>
> Take care,
>
>
>
> Joe
> --
> "There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and
> cats."--Albert Schweitzer
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