[78-L] Why Do I Care About 78's?

[Rodger J Holtin]

You're catching on, Dave.  Congratulations.  This will keep you busy for years.  Look in Goodwill and places like that and you may dig up a turntable that will play 78s.  Or jump off the board into the deep end and check out a new one with Kurt Nauck at 78rpm.com or somebody like that.  Keep looking.  

I built spreadsheets to catalog my stuff by copying form these charts:

http://www.78discography.com/ 

I like Alma Gluck, too.   Gluck rhymes with Luke.   Here's one of my favorites

https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/matrix/detail/200014840/B-14549-Little_grey_home_in_the_West 

Rodger Holtin
78-L Member Since MCMXCVIII

For Best Results Use Victor Needles

-----Original Message-----
From: 78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com [mailto:78-l-bounces at klickitat.78online.com] On Behalf Of DKing
Sent: Friday, March 6, 2020 11:09 PM
To: 78-L Mail List <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Subject: [78-L] Why Do I Care About 78's?


Hello Everyone,

It’s my turn to tell (or repeat?) how I came to be fascinated with 78’s.

I knew very little about 78’s except for dim memories of having seen the old records my grandmother had, back in the 1950’s.

So I went from barely having seen a swimming pool to jumping Into the deep end of the pool.

A few years ago a local couple wanted to find someone to take boxes of old records off their hands, as they found them all in old house they’d purchased here in California.

Hoping to prevent them from being thrown out, I “rescued” them and the load filled up the back of my Subaru Forester, even with the back seats folded down.  Boxes of records, loose records!, a few 12”, but mostly 10”.

Eventually I found the time & energy to try and make sense of them and find online websites to help me put them all into an Excel spreadsheet.

I don’t have a turntable that will play 78’s, but found that some online resources (incl. the Library of Congress) have good recordings of many records so listened to some of them there.

Liked some of what I heard, actually more than I expected to.
And, I’m amazed at how much old music is out there on YouTube, even from some of the very old recordings - and they sometimes include helpful notes about them.

This record hooked me:  a one-sided Victrola recording of Alma Gluck singing “Nightingale Song”, issued in 1919:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CylnxObdNd4 <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CylnxObdNd4>

For the record, I’m not crazy about the bird sound on that recording, which thankfully isn’t heard all the time.

Alma Gluck has an amazing voice to my untrained ear, and I’d never even heard of her. So I had to find out what other gems might be among all those records.

I’m still not done slogging my way through to what will probably be almost 1,000 records - although I know that some of the most recent ones aren’t shellac, but appear to be early plastic / vinyl records from the 1940’s & 1950’s.

So, thank you Ms. Gluck.  I wish I’d been able to hear you perform in person.

Dave King
New Member

NOTE:  Alma Gluck was married to Efrem Zimbalist Sr., and their son was the actor Efrem Zimbalist Jr.


_______________________________________________
78-L mailing list
78-L at klickitat.78online.com
http://klickitat.78online.com/mailman/listinfo/78-l


-- 
This email has been checked for viruses by AVG.
https://www.avg.com