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Irish Revolutionary LPs - These People Are Serious

 

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Wow, A whole month has gone by.

I've not posted a thing for an entire month.  Here's why...

My computer has been giving me HELL for weeks.  I finally wiped the hard drive clean and I'm starting fresh.

I've been listing records on eBay consistently and it has taken all of my extra time.

I've had multiple fake bids on multiple items and correcting the problem has taken any  tiny bit of extra time I had left.

With all of that said, I hope to begin a regular routine of posts starting soon.  I know I have only 5 followers, but you have to start somewhere and to not post for so long is bad business and bad taste. 

Thank you for your patience.

Some Blue Note West 63rds, Waltz For Debby and Tropicalia

Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers at the jazz corner world Vol. 1

Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers at the jazz corner of the world Vol.2

Art Blakey - A Night At Birdland Vol. 2

Art Blakey - A Night At Birdland Vol.1

Bill Evans Trio - Waltz for Debby

Gilberto Gil - 1968

More Okeh Jazz 78s Listed Tonight!

California Ramblers

Louis Armstrong

Louis Armstrong

Okeh Syncopators

Louis Armstrong

Okeh has become one of my very favorite labels.  Country, Blues, Jazz...It can all be found on Okeh.  And when the record is clean, Okeh is one of the best sounding records from the era.

Tonight's Ebay Auctions - Some Nice Rare E Trumbauers!

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VPI 16.5 - Record Cleaning Machine - For 78s?

I bought this machine from a friend six years ago and have used it periodically on LPs with mixed results.  It gets all the surface dirt and dust off the record, but I can never seem to get out those faint pops and crackles from the deep hidden dirt particles.  For the longest time I thought the VPI wouldn't work on 78s.  Much to my suprise and delight, it does an amazing job on shellac.  I pulled a couple of Frankie Trumbauer Brunswicks out of the stacks.  Both these records looked great after cleaning and played E+ or better.  No noise from dirt.  The VPI doesn't work miracles.  A V record is still a V record even if it's clean.  But for the E records in your collection the VPI may very well make those records sound New.

I recommend the Nitty Gritty Pure 1 record cleaning solution as well.  It's made for 78s and does no damage.  It's available at www.needledoctor.com

Tonight's Ebay Listings:

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Ebay Auctions Starting Today: Some Free Jazz

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EBAY Auctions Starting Today

Marcello Melis and  Mario Schiano - Perdas De Fogu

Noise - Self Titled - Private Press - Sealed

Ms. DJ - Clappers 12' - Seales

Josiah Spaulding - Private Press Folk - Signed

Sonny Fortune - Long Before Our Mothers Cried - Strata East

Nick Perls - Signed Letter of Correspondence

It looks like my man Bill was trying to trade some records by white artists for records by black blues artists.  Is it me or does Nick's reply seem kind of hostile?

Nick Perls was the founder and main man behind the famed Yazoo record label.  If you love country blues, you probably have a Yazoo LP or CD in your collection.  Before they were bought out by Shanachie, most of the 78s Yazoo reissued came from the collections of Nick Perls and his friends and associates.

Check out the Wiki entry here:


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Perls

Red Nichols and Jack Teagarden Promo Cards

Red Nichols

Jack Teagarden

These seem to be some kind of promtional post cards from the 30s or 40s.

They are much sharper in appearance than the scan allows for.

Bix Promo Sign

I found this on a shelf in the large collection of Bill's.  It needed a small repair, but is in nice shape.  I don't know when this was made, but I'd guess in the 1930's

The Hot Platter Club - NJ

I never met any of these guys, but I wish I had.    I was probably around 3yrs. old when this was taken.

Bill George is third from the right in the bottom picture. (with the glasses)

Bill George - Record Collector of the Highest Order

This is a caricature drawn when Bill was, I believe, a Freshman at Rutgers University, circa 1946.
Decades later, he would go on to amass a collection of 78 discs numbering over 12,000.  It's from that collection that I am pulling most of the 78s you'll see here.

Thank you Bill

(and you too Joan)

Publish Post

Larry Levitz - Makes the Paper (again?)

 Great article and video.  I've bought shellac from both of these guys.  Combined their knowledge of antique phonographs is just ridiculous.  look 'em up.

http://nbs.gmnews.com/news/2010-08-18/Front_Page/Music_to_the_ears.html

Best Place Online for 78 Gear, Carts, etc.

If you love old records and want to hear them at their best quality audio, definitely check out the link below.

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Kevin is a nice guy and really knows his stuff.

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