[78-L] Old Geezers

[George Anglin]

Have no fear fellow 78 collectors. My two 5 year old boys love playing my records and enjoy the dance music of the twenties and early thirties. The fact that they can place a shiny round object with a pretty label onto a turntable, drop the needle and instantly hear music really gets to them. Their two favorite tunes are ;Collegiate Love and Mysterious Mose;, both by Ted Weems and his orchestra, about 1928. I know who's inheriting my collection. George Anglin

--- On Sat, 3/24/12, Philip Carli <Philip_Carli at pittsford.monroe.edu> wrote:

From: Philip Carli <Philip_Carli at pittsford.monroe.edu>
Subject: Re: [78-L] Old Geezers
To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Date: Saturday, March 24, 2012, 1:59 AM

I certainly don't listen to records over and over and over, and with exceptions I don't think listeners did then.  And serious record purchasers did change needles frequently, especially those who bought classical discs. In one of Robertson Davies' novels he refers to a schoolgirl  listening to 78 classical sets in a schoolroom and being careful because she loved the music so much, and in another one fellow with a portable in his room at Oxford (where Davies went) uses velvet to clean discs and plays them with thorn needles.  Dance records were more casually treated, but needles were CHEAP, even in the Depression, and you could buy them everywhere, even at drugstores and some newsstands.  I'm surprised so many records turn up in decent shape after 80+ years, but I think people cared for their possessions more years ago and didn't have such a "throwaway" attitude as to-day.  PC
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From: 78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com [78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com] on behalf of neechevoneeznayou at gmail.com [neechevoneeznayou at gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, March 23, 2012 5:22 PM
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Subject: Re: [78-L] Old Geezers

Yes they do sound wunnerful, but they still sound like a Credenza. I'm
convinced that many acousticals turn up in wonderful condition because
no one cared to hear the music after just a few plays. How many people
were really that diligent about changing the needle, especially during
the depression? (if they could even afford records at all)

joe salerno

On 3/23/2012 1:00 PM, David Lennick wrote:
> But many electricals sound wonderful when played on a Credenza. and many
> acousticals turn up looking pretty clean if the original owner was diligent
> about changing the needles.
>
> dl
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