[78-L] Oldtimers query

[David Lennick]

As always, thanks to Ron for keeping things moving, cleaning out the hamster 
cage and all the other stuff over the years.

I've kept a number of messages in various folders that I thought I might need 
at some time (and of course have never referred back)..the oldest seem to be 
from November 2000. Here's one.

On 11/16/2000 11:18 AM, Paul Stamler wrote:

> In a message dated 11/16/00 1:56:02 AM EST, dlennick at sympatico.ca writes:
>
>> What are the details of the Nelson Eddy clothing drive item? I have a l0"
>>   Canadian Compo pressing on which Eddy sings Irving Caesar's "Have You Got
>> Old
>>   Clothes", done for the National Clothing Drive. No date given, c. l949 or
>> l950
>>   I'd guess since I've had the disc since about then.
> Same song; here's what the label says:
>
> RECORDED, PROCESSED AND MANUFACTURED ON WESTERN ELECTRIC EQUIPMENT
> under Western Electric Company license
> VICTORY CLOTHING COLLECTION
> (January 7-31)
> Campaign Song
> HAVE YOU GOT OLD CLOTHES
> Sung by NELSON EDDY
> with Robert Armbruster's Orchestra and Chorus
> Master 44814
> [penciled in:] 2:19     2-1/2 R
> Cleared for radio by AFM and ASCAP
> [penciled in:] Lateral
> Reproduce at 78 r.p.m.
> World Broadcasting System, Inc.
> 711 Fifth Avenue, New York 22, N.Y.
>
> [and a penciled-in arrow, presumably pointing to the cue point]
>
> That sounds like WWII era to me. And the pencilling-in clearly comes from a
> radio station.
>
> Peace.
> Paul
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On 4/9/2019 6:45 PM, ron at fial.com.invalid wrote:
> The 78-L list started in 1992.   Douglas Elliott started it and it was hosted on the Cornell
> University's email server.  At some point later  either Columbia kicked it off their mainframe
> computer or it became too time consuming for Doug, and he got me to take it over.  I think it
> initially used themainframe Listserv mailing list software written by Eric Thomas, later ported
> to Unix machines by L-Serve. Doug E. would have most information about it and the
> beginnings.
>
>
> Initially I moved the list to various maillist server companies, some were very hard to deal
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> Later when Sendmail has some serious security problems and became too complex to
> maintain, I moved it to SusE Linux running the Mailman mail-list software, running with the
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> learned to do this the hard way.
>
> I do have a collection of about 7,000  78s, all shelved, takes up and entire half of my two car
> garage.  I have two Victorolas and a nice Orthophonic, and Dual and Audio Technica
> turntables with cartridges and 78 styli.  I am an electronics designer first, but my wife and I
> are past choral singers, done musicals and operas, even toured the far east in a USO show.
> We enjoy all types of music (well, country not so much :)
>
> Regards,
>     Ron Fial
> ____________________
>
>
> On 3 Apr 2019 at 13:04, Kurt Nauck wrote:
>
>> It appears that I have only been on 78-L since 1998. Can any of you
>> older codgers tell me when 78-L began and if Cornell was the original host?
>>
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