GONE: 150+ 78pm records 1910s to 1950s

[Morell1]

I also prefer the earlier Bing Crosby Victor scroll records, a couple of which were in this batch. I also pondered whether to include the Bing Crosby/Andrews Sisters Christmas records in this giveaway but decided I should keep them out of a sense of duty. I listened to them on an LP during my childhood but haven't really listened to them since.

As for Sinatra, this batch had two records--early Sinatra on a 1940s British Columbia pressing and a later Columbia pressing. I much preferred the earlier pressing.

My favorite records are jazz from the late 20s--Louis Armstrong Okeh records, Jelly Roll Morton, Miff Mole, electrically-recorded Fletcher Henderson, Duke Ellington on Victor scroll, etc. I'll never let those out of my grip. I also like older international records from the 20s--Yiddish, Polish, Irish, Ukrainian, Argentine, etc.

I started collecting some 2-minute cylinders when I was 11 or 12, because I had bought an Edison Home Phonograph with lawn-mowing earnings. That had been the beginning and end of my collecting until I reached my late 20s and bought a beat-up VV-80 floor model from a friend for $25. The cylinders were fun for demonstration purposes. For me, the 78s were the true discovery, and good ones were plentiful in the '90s.