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Old 01-02-2007, 11:04   #16
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most records are not worth much especially those that were big sellers, obscure stuff n early stuff relating to people who become big stars later,thats summat else.
Yea I realise that Cashman, they're really just sentimental value - it was just that the yellow one was a limited edition but it's probably warped now anyway
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Old 01-02-2007, 21:50   #17
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Ah! But has anybody got any 78’s?
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Old 01-02-2007, 22:11   #18
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My brother Kevin, has still got Johnny B Goode, ( LONDON, AMERICAN ) Only make believe, Conway Twittie, ( MGM ), Hound Dog b/w Blue Suede Shose, His Masters Voice. All on 78s. in his Cot loft. Also a 78, about Manchester United, and the Busby Babes. I think he might have Johonny Duncan, footprints in the snow and Diana. Paul Anka, both on Columbia, A green label. He wont let go of them.
Has your brother ever considered getting his old 78’s put onto CD’s?

I’ve just digitised mine and stored them on a DVD for the time being until I can get round to making a few CD’s.
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Old 01-02-2007, 22:16   #19
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My brother Kevin, has still got Johnny B Goode, ( LONDON, AMERICAN ) Only make believe, Conway Twittie, ( MGM ), Hound Dog b/w Blue Suede Shose, His Masters Voice. All on 78s. in his Cot loft. Also a 78, about Manchester United, and the Busby Babes. I think he might have Johonny Duncan, footprints in the snow and Diana. Paul Anka, both on Columbia, A green label. He wont let go of them.
Went to see Johnnie Duncan and the blue grass boys at the Nelson Imp....i loved that song ,I traced her little footprints in the snow,,,,,
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Old 01-02-2007, 23:11   #20
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Ah! But has anybody got any 78’s?
I still buy 78s (on ebay)! There's nothing quite like plonking a piece of shellac down on the old turntable and watching it whizz round ten to the dozen, as you lower the needle into the grooves and hear that familiar frying bacon sound!
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Old 01-02-2007, 23:57   #21
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Re: Dead Sick.

got rid of my 78s many years ago, not worth much,also weight n storage was a factor.plus they break easy n the kids were little.
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Old 02-02-2007, 09:53   #22
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I still buy 78s (on ebay)! There's nothing quite like plonking a piece of shellac down on the old turntable and watching it whizz round ten to the dozen, as you lower the needle into the grooves and hear that familiar frying bacon sound!
Can you still get the steel needles?

That’s why anyone who has them should think about digitising the music cashy. I know that old records may be valuable in their own right but so is the music.

Anyone got any of the single sided 78’s or even the 12” ones?
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Old 02-02-2007, 13:28   #23
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Don't think you can get steel needles now. I play mine on a little portable record player with a needle which plays either vinyl or shellac.

To be quite honest, 78s are an inconvenient way to listen to music - they're heavy, unwieldy and very, very fragile and the sound quality's usually not up to much. I just like 'em!
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Old 02-02-2007, 15:24   #24
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You must be able to get needles for playing vinyl because they still sell tunrtables. Anybody know where they sell the needles?
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Old 02-02-2007, 17:07   #25
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I’m disappointed Wynnonie Harris! I thought you played your 78’s on a windup gramophone with a horn and everything and maybe even little Nipper listening with you. Think of the exercise that you could get winding the handle. To those who haven’t a clue what I’m on about, Nipper was the name of the dog as he listened to His Master’s Voice on the gramophone. Used as the HMV logo. See picture.

The sound quality may not be a patch on the sterile sounds from modern record players but it had that special olde worlde character about it that makes 78’s music so special. Well it does for old gits like me. And that is why I sampled all of my 78’s and turned them into digital sound, to preserve that sound. Apart from that the fragility of 78’s means that they are always liable to be broken accidentally and once broken that is that. Except that is not necessarily so. I have a Beniamino Gigli 78 that is cracked from the hole in the centre right across the record so there are about 200 loud licks as the stylus crosses the crack. But I have been able to eliminate each one so that you cannot hear it. Well I haven’t actually finished yet but those clicks that I have sorted, you can’t hear. They are still there, it’s just that you can’t hear them. I should finish it any year now.

The needles that were mentioned weren’t referring to styli for turntables WillowTheWhisp. You can still get those at any decent record shop. These were actual steel needles – a bit like a very fat pin without the head that got clamped in the diaphragm of the pick-up arm. Believe it or not after a number of plays of the old 78’s the steel needle had the point worn off and you had to replace it with a new one. All gramophones had a small well in the unit that held spare needles.
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Old 02-02-2007, 18:06   #26
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I still buy 78s (on ebay)! There's nothing quite like plonking a piece of shellac down on the old turntable and watching it whizz round ten to the dozen, as you lower the needle into the grooves and hear that familiar frying bacon sound!
It's odd how I can remember such an annoying sound at the time with fondnous. I especailly like to pull out old cassette tapes of songs from various records and 8 track tapes. It's got the popping and all. I remember 100 years ago when I taped the songs how I tried so hard to minimize the "frying bacon sound!"

Thank Wynonie!

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Old 02-02-2007, 19:07   #27
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When I was a teenager, in the 50s, I had loads of 78s, Elvis, Little Richard, Buddy Holly etc., etc., all the rock'n'roll hits. I got married in 1962 and didn't have a record player, or much storage space, in my new home so I left the records in my parents' attic.

In 1964 my parents moved to Feniscowles and, without a word to me, gave my collection to a jumble sale.

My son assures me that the collection I had would now be worth over £500. I never quite forgave mum and dad.
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Old 02-02-2007, 19:23   #28
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Somewhere I've got an old wooden box with "Perophone" indented into the lid. It used to contain gramophone needles and is all I have left now of an old windup gramophone with horn that I used to have. I kept it at my Gran's in the 'glory hole' where I used to play my 78s on it but when she died it was chucked out along with the rest of her stuff
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Old 02-02-2007, 21:56   #29
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and maybe even little Nipper listening with you.
JamButty, I am listening with a little nipper (7-year-old grandson) and he's just managed to put a large chip in one of my best Wynonie Harris's! Doh...back to the modern convenience of 45s!
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