Old 78 rpm

Subject: Old 78 rpm
From: Roberto
Date: 18 Jun 03 - 04:45 AM

Can somebody tell me where to look to buy old 78 rpm, pre-war blues, irish and folk? Thank you. Roberto

Subject: RE: Old 78 rpm
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 18 Jun 03 - 04:58 AM

It might depend on which country you live in. If you give more information, you might get specific information local to you!
Quack!
GtD.

Subject: RE: Old 78 rpm
From: Roberto
Date: 18 Jun 03 - 09:01 AM

I live in Italy. Roberto

Subject: RE: Old 78 rpm
From: artbrooks
Date: 18 Jun 03 - 09:17 AM

Try www.ebay.com, and search for "78 rpm." There is a lot there to browse through.

Subject: RE: Old 78 rpm
From: wysiwyg
Date: 18 Jun 03 - 10:45 AM

If you visit this site you can hear a lot of old 78's online and there are links from there to sources for re-issues.

HONKING DUCK

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~Susan

Subject: RE: Old 78 rpm
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 19 Jun 03 - 02:16 AM

There are a lot of them for sale at used bookstores in the U.S. Half Price Books has quite a few. Don't know if any of them are available online, however.

SRS

Subject: RE: Old 78 rpm
From: Steve Parkes
Date: 19 Jun 03 - 03:35 AM

"old 78s" is a bit of a tautology! But they still made them up to 1957 in Britain (we didn't have as much money as them Yanks), and in India the early Beatles singles were issued on 78. You can get realtively recent recordings on 78, although the very last ones were on vinyl, not shellac. They're all becoming rarer now, of course.

Steve

Subject: RE: Old 78 rpm
From: GUEST,Bystander
Date: 19 Jun 03 - 06:59 AM

For old blues 78's subscribe to VJM, the quarterly world wide jazz and blues auction magazine. Details on www.vjm.biz.
Just for the record (coarse groove of course!), 78's were still made and could be bought in Britain up till 1960. Nothing to do with not having as much money as the Yanks (both formats cost about the same anyway). They carried on making them mainly for export to third world countries where they had no electricity and still used wind-up machines.

Subject: RE: Old 78 rpm
From: SINSULL
Date: 19 Jun 03 - 07:07 AM

Ebay. I buy them there all the time. Pay attention to the condition description.

Subject: RE: Old 78 rpm
From: GUEST,noddy
Date: 19 Jun 03 - 08:12 AM

Any NEW 78s out there?????

Subject: RE: Old 78 rpm
From: Steve Parkes
Date: 19 Jun 03 - 08:23 AM

Bystander, the Americans (allegedly) had the new electric three-speed phonographs from the late 40s, which were affordable to more people because of the higher standard of living, while we benighted Brits were still exporting essential products like whisky and cars to pay for the war damage we suffered (and the lease-lend tanks and ships!).

Noddy, when the 12" singles became popular in te late 70s, teer was some talk of bringing back the 78 for better sound quality (on vinyl, with microgroove & stereo). There may have been sone experimental ones pressed, but I've never heard of any being sold. All the ones I've got are definitely old!

Steve

Subject: RE: Old 78 rpm
From: Roberto
Date: 19 Jun 03 - 02:30 PM

Old=I meant from the 20's and 30's. I thought it was clear, because I had specified I am looking for pre-war blues and Irish recordings (that I haven't specified: I'm looking for Paddy Killoran, Michael Coleman, James Morrison, ecc). Thanks for the information. Roberto

Subject: RE: Old 78 rpm
From: Burke
Date: 19 Jun 03 - 05:45 PM

Do you want the actual 78's or are reissues OK. Document has done a lot of early blues, jazz, etc.

Subject: RE: Old 78 rpm
From: CraigS
Date: 19 Jun 03 - 07:34 PM

For blues, blues reissues and some other interesting stuff, Redlick Records are good. Their website, www.redlick.co.uk, is naff - no track listings, and half the orders placed on the website get lost   (ie. they don't send them because they don't know you've placed them). But find what you are looking for there and it costs less than elsewhere, make a telephone order and it's there in a couple of days. Very good for international orders, too.

Subject: RE: Old 78 rpm
From: Mark Cohen
Date: 20 Jun 03 - 05:24 AM

Thread creep alert: Does anybody know why phonograph speeds were standardized at 78, 45, 33 1/3, and 16 RPM? I've always wondered if there's a better answer than, "because that's how they did it." Obviously, 33 1/3 is one-third of 100 (so....?), and 16 (used mostly for spoken recordings, I believe, like talking books) is about half of that. But that doesn't seem to be an answer.

Aloha,
Mark