45worlds Forum - View Single Post - What is your background in 78rpm records? How did you come to collect 78rpm records?

15th Aug 2017, 7:30 AM
	LaurenceD SUBS Member since Aug 2011 7708 Points Moderator	Long story: I had little interest in 78s until a friend (the father of an old schoolmate) and I got to talking about music and he mentioned that he had hundreds of them in boxes in the garage and was no longer able to play them. He was nearly blind and didn't have the wherewithal to set up a turntable and such, so I said that this sounded like an interesting project and I would then educate myself and put something together so that I could digitize them and burn some CDs of his favorite recordings. I took them all home, cleaned them and started to work. Beginning with his favorite artists, I managed to get his Duke Ellington, Woody Herman, Sarah Vaughan, & JATP recordings done and returned those CDs and 78s before he passed away. As I'm inclined to do, I also researched each recording to ascertain the recording date and participants where possible. This got me started on 78s. Plus, my damaged hearing makes older 'organic' recordings sound more appealing than, say, a Milli Vanilli record with all of that electronic stuff generated from sequencers. So with all due respect to the 60s and 70s, I now enjoy hearing all that music that I missed out on because I wasn't born yet! Edited by moderator on 15th Aug 2017, 3:20 PM

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