[78-L] 78s on cd questions, reissue records, phono cut, etc

[Robert Godridge]

Hi Bryan,

You shouldn't disown the harmony cd it's great. problem is it likes to
skip quite badly on my laptop's cd drive, though not on an older cd
player I have.
I'll look out for the batwing melodies cd I'd like to hear that,
especially as my main interest is acoustical popular recordings.

To be honest I have heard in passing of rivermont, but will check it
out now. I like cds that leave the 78s alone for the most part though
retrieval/jazz oracle/timeless do a fantastic job too.

if anyone has any ideas about the other discs I'd love to know more
about them. they came from one collection of pretty rare cds.
thanks,
Rob

On 10/27/14, Bryan Wright <bryan at claxtonola.com.invalid> wrote:
>
> I'm surprised to hear copies of "Harmony Dance Bands" are still floating
> around. That was my pioneer effort at reissuing 78s a dozen or more years
> ago. That and a collection called "Batwing Melodies" were the only two
> issues on Phono-Cut. In total, I'd say fewer than two hundred copies of each
> were made. I've long since disowned them -- haha.
>
> Since 2004, I've been running Rivermont Records, offering reissues mostly of
> 1920s jazz and dance bands. Needless to say, the sound quality is vastly
> superior to the two early Phono-Cut releases, and the Rivermont discs are
> packaged with substantial booklets. They are also professionally pressed
> (they are *not* CD-R discs). In addition to nine "Big Broadcast" CDs that
> offer a potpourri of 1920s and '30s pop and jazz, the catalogue contains
> discs devoted to 1920s bandleaders Isham Jones, Charley Straight, Frank
> Westphal, Irving Aaronson, Lou Gold, Paul Specht, Harry Yerkes (The Happy
> Six), and others. More information (and a complete catalogue with sound
> samples) is available at:
>
> http://www.rivermontrecords.com
>
> Best,
> Bryan W.
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