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78rpm Disc Transfers To Share

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Years back, I operated a small record label that restored and released music from the 78rpm era on CD. I’m not doing anything with the tracks any more, so I figured I should share them with folks. Each set includes a PDF with the cover set up to print out and the individual tracks in MP3 format. I apologize for the font substitution on the covers. I created this on a computer that is long gone. Likewise I apologize for not tagging the MP3s. If someone wants to do that and send them back to me, I’ll swap them in place of the ones there now.

I have about a dozen titles I’d be happy to share if anyone is interested. Here’s a list…

CL 1001 Variations (Schnabel Diabelli and Eroica) CL 1002 Wagner Between The Wars CL 1003 Stravinsky Firebird Rite of Spring (conducted by Stravinsky) CL 1004 Handel Concerti Grossi Op 6 (Busch) CL 1005 Mahler Sym No 9 (Walter / VPO) CL 1006 Sibelius (Kajanus) CL 1007 Mendelssohn Schubert (Reformation Symphony) DB 1001 Sheiks & Vamps (20s Dance Bands) DB 1002 Dancing The Devil Away (20s Dance Bands) OP 1001 Melchior & Flagstad (Tristan) OP 1002 Walkure » Continue Reading.

Records With History

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I thought it might be fun to hear about records in your collection that have history behind them. I’ll start it out…

About ten years ago, I would scour eBay for batches of old 78s to play on my acoustic phonograph. I wouldn’t pick and choose titles, I’d just depend on the luck of the draw and look for batches that seemed to have lots of interesting stuff. (Shipping is cheaper in a batch.) I saw a batch advertised that had a lot of 12 inch Victor Red Seals… Enrico Caruso and other great opera singers from the beginning of the 20th century. It was cheap so I bid the minimum and won the batch. Before the seller shipped, I asked him if he had any other 78s he’d like to sell so it could all go in one box. He asked me my interest and if I was a dealer, and I explained that I had just bought a beautiful Walnut Brunswick phonograph and I was looking for records to play on it. He PMed me back and said that he had one album binder of records but they were very special. He had no way to play them, » Continue Reading.