From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V8 #212 Reply-To: loud-fans@smoe.org Sender: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk loud-fans-digest Tuesday, November 10 2009 Volume 08 : Number 212 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [loud-fans] Eureka! [Markwstaples@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2009 14:27:01 EST From: Markwstaples@aol.com Subject: [loud-fans] Eureka! Cleaning out the attic has proven to be terriffic in terms of finding stuff put away and long forgotten. Weird for me has been going through some of my dad's things--he's been dead for 25 years. I discovered (and am in the process of listening to) a box with dozens of 78s that date back to the early 50s, maybe earlier--lots on the Atlantic label. Some artists are: (my dad was into R&B) Sarah Vaughan, Wynonie Harris, The Dominoes, The Midnighters, Dinah Washington, Tiny Bradshaw, The Checkers, Floyd Dixon and His Band, Sonny Thompson, Joe Liggins and The Honeydrippers, John Greer and The Rhythm Rockers, Roy Brown and His Mighty Mighty Men, Ruth Brown and Her Rythmakers, Billy Ward and His Dominoes, The Clovers, Clyde McPhatter and The Drifters, Billy Mitchell, etc. Also, he kept everything from his days at High Point College (a school in NC)--cool early fifties styled textbooks, his papers, notes, etc.. I feel like I've found the greatest find at a thrift store but didn't have to pay for any of it! These things were put up there in 1967, and haven't been touched since. Bliss at 78 rpm, - --Mark "On the other hand, suppose their industries and products were more advanced and superior to ours. Our markets might be flooded with with unexcelled products at rock-bottom prices. This would put us in an uneasy situation; but before we get desperate and since this is 1955, let's leave the problem for our children's children to cope with. They will more likely be better prepared to handle the situation anyway." (or maybe not--from a Marketing paper my dad wrote in college--can you say Japan and China, anyone?) ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V8 #212 *******************************