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Intro to 1930’s Blues, Jazz and Country Musicians
Selections: Louis Armstrong – Lazy River Kokomo Arnold – Milk Cow Blues Mildred Bailey – St. Louis Blues Cab Calloway – Reefer Man Leroy Carr – New How Long, How Long Blues Carter Family – Keep On The Sunny Side Casa Loma Orchestra – White Jazz Robert Cooper – West Dallas Drag No. 2 Delmore…
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Early 1900’s Opera & Classical Music 78s & LPs
A few weeks ago a gent contacted us from Waco and asked if we would be willing to accept a large collection of opera & classical 78s from the early 1900s as well as some LPs. He didn’t want to take them to the thrift store as they meant so much to his family member.…
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Flattening Old 78s
The other day a friend of mine tipped me off on some very warped, dirty 78s he saw at a thrift store. He sent me some pics. They were in an old worn out gramophone and even though it looked unpromising, I stopped by. When I arrived they were indeed beat up (warped, extremely dirty,…
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1938 RCA Model 70-B
By far the workhorse of the broadcast transcription turntables I picked up is this 1938 RCA Model 70-B. There were four iterations of RCA broadcast turntables (Model 70-A through 70-D). The RCA 70-A was introduced in the mid 1930’s. By 1938 RCA had rolled out the 70-B. Somewhere down the line in the 1950s a…
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16″ Lacquer Presto Cut Records from the 1940’s
Earlier this month, I picked up some 16″ transcription records that were at a local estate sale for a gentleman named Joe. Joe was in the Navy, trained on aircraft electronics (radar was his thing), repaired radios, mechanical calculators, TVs, and was essentially one of those guys that could fix or build most anything. Joe…