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14th Jun 2023, 2:32 AM
	mojofilter Member since Jul 2012 1434 Points	78s were the first records I heard. I don't remember that my father had any, but my mother was a Doris Day fan (scrapbooks and everything), and she liked Frank Sinatra on Columbia, Jo Stafford, Patti Page, Perry Como, Kay Kyser, Sammy Kaye and Roger Williams, '50s crooners and vocal groups, and big band music. One of her brothers, I never found out which one, was into early C&W, R&R and R&B. In the cabinet under the record player at my grandmother's house were a couple dozen 78s. This is where I first heard "Come Go With Me" by the Del-Vikings, "Ka Ding Dong" by The Diamonds, "I Dreamed Of A Hillbilly Heaven" b/w "Stealing" by Eddie Dean, "So Rare" b/w Sophisticated Swing" by Jimmy Dorsey, "The Swingin' Shepherd Blues" by Moe Koffman, "Don't Forbid Me" and "Chains Of Love" by Pat Boone, "Blueberry Hill" by Fats Domino and "Guitar Boogie Shuffle" by The Virtues. There's a good possibility it was the uncle who named his daughter Nadine after the Chuck Berry song. One of the major regrets of my life is that I couldn't take the 50,000 78s in near-mint shape that a man I worked with wanted to leave me when he died. I have nowhere to put that many records, and the weight would have cracked the foundation of my house (it sits on a concrete slab). I have no idea what happened to them.