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What are the most haunting 78s you own (or have heard)?
Posted: Wed Jun 26, 2024 5:44 pm
by Woody
What are some of the most haunting 78s in your collection (or that you’ve heard)? You know the kind of stuff I mean—like Skip James’s “Devil Got My Woman” and Al Bowlly’s “Midnight, the Stars, and You”?
Re: What are the most haunting 78s you own (or have heard)?
Posted: Wed Jun 26, 2024 6:54 pm
by Jmcmahan67
You just said it.., “Midnight, the Stars and you” is my most haunting…. Also, “A Pretty White Rose” by the Kentucky Ramblers on Paramount is a rather haunting melody.
Re: What are the most haunting 78s you own (or have heard)?
Posted: Wed Jun 26, 2024 6:56 pm
by Roaring20s
Here are a few I have ...
Blind Willie Johnson - Dark Was The Night Cold Was The Ground
Peg Leg Howell - Moanin' and Groanin' Blues
Blind Willie Johnson - Trouble Will Soon Be Over
Luke Jordan - Cocaine Blues
Merline Johnson - Sold It To The Devil
Sleepy John Estes - Someday Baby Blues
James.
Re: What are the most haunting 78s you own (or have heard)?
Posted: Wed Jun 26, 2024 7:31 pm
by zipcord
Nice selections, James
I like your musical palette
Re: What are the most haunting 78s you own (or have heard)?
Posted: Wed Jun 26, 2024 7:39 pm
by gramophone-georg
Billie Holiday, "Strange Fruit"
Artie Shaw "Gloomy Sunday" and "Nightmare"
Re: What are the most haunting 78s you own (or have heard)?
Posted: Wed Jun 26, 2024 9:10 pm
by Roaring20s
zipcord wrote: Wed Jun 26, 2024 7:31 pm
Nice selections, James
I like your musical palette
Thanks!
That one grabs one's attention!
Haunting, as in a ear worm ...
Will Bradley - Celery Stalks at Midnight
Re: What are the most haunting 78s you own (or have heard)?
Posted: Wed Jun 26, 2024 9:41 pm
by CharliePhono
Wayne King -- Swamp Ghosts
Re "Celery Stalks," etc., that is one of my all-time favorites!
Re: What are the most haunting 78s you own (or have heard)?
Posted: Wed Jun 26, 2024 9:47 pm
by Roaring20s
A few more of mine ...
Narmour & Smith - Winona Echoes
Josh White - Lord, I Want To Die Easy
Chu Berry - Maelstrom
J. E. Mainer's Mountaineers - This World Is Not My Home
Joe Sullivan Quintette - Heavy Laden
Again, more of an ear worm ...
Bill Boyd - Tableau Clog Dance
Re: What are the most haunting 78s you own (or have heard)?
Posted: Wed Jun 26, 2024 11:49 pm
by dennis
Out of the Dusk to You. Henry Burr. 1940.
Re: What are the most haunting 78s you own (or have heard)?
Posted: Thu Jun 27, 2024 3:20 am
by epigramophone
Decca K1466. Orfeo ed Euridice (Gluck) "What is Life?" sung by Kathleen Ferrier (1912-1953).
You would need a heart of stone not to be moved and haunted by this. Kathleen Ferrier became world famous for her portrayal of Orfeo, and continued to perform the role even when in pain from the terminal cancer to which she succumbed at the early age of 41.