[78-L] Record Torture

[David Lennick]

No antifreeze near 78s..check. Jeez, it's always something.

dl

On 1/6/2012 4:18 PM, David Weiner wrote:
> Moral - don't keep Lombardos in a cold, drippy garage&  don't sleep in the
> subway, darlin'!
>
> Dave Weiner
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: 78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com
> [mailto:78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com] On Behalf Of Steve Williams
> Sent: Friday, January 06, 2012 4:12 PM
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Subject: [78-L] Record Torture
>
> I happened to encounter a mystery just the other day, I opened a thin box of
> about 25 78s, mostly Guy Lombardo laminated Columbias, and a couple of red
> and black wax Microphones.  The Montreal pressings are fine, but every one
> of the Columbias is incredibly fragile, they were breaking and crumblng just
> by holding them by the edge and two thirds towards the spindle, they can be
> broken easily between thumb and two fingers, with brown dust falling out of
> the core.  There's no chance to play them.  I've never heard of this before
> but I haven't seen these records for years, and using visual recollection of
> when I was emptying out the garage for the Move, it's POSSIBLE they were
> kept buried in the garage near a leaking bottle of antifreeze.  That's all I
> can say.  I've encountered noisy HMVs, I bought a box of apparently unplayed
> Paul Robeson and Noel Cowards, including South African pressings, all in the
> original sleeves, from Bee-Bee's in St.Lawrence Market, they were all noiser
> than the US Victors even when the latter had normal wear.
>
> Steve Williams  ..