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

[DKing]

Rodger that’s a beautiful song, made more so by lack of annoying bird calls as in “Nightingale Song”.  I particularly admire Gluck’s high notes.  Thanks very much!

I owe others here some feedback on their messages about why they like 78’s or how they began listening to them  - and I’ll try to consolidate that into one message, so you’re not flooded with separate emails.

Dave King
New Member


> On Mar 6, 2020, at 11:07 PM, Rodger J Holtin <rjh334578 at gmail.com.invalid> wrote:
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> 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:
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> http://www.78discography.com/ 
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> 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
> 
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> 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
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> Subject: [78-L] Why Do I Care About 78's?
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> 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:
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> 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.
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