> On 12 November 2019 at 04:51 Mark Roberts <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Dale H. Cook wrote: > > >On 11/11/2019 6:41 PM, Larry Colen wrote: > > > >> 78RPM? > > > >Larry - > > > >You must be a young whippersnapper. Paul said vinyl, and 78s are almost > >always shellac. The major exceptions were 78s pressed during and shortly > >after WWII, when shellac was in short supply, and some were pressed in > >vinyl. :-) > > Those shellac discs were notoriously fragile. For example, if you were > to be at a party and accidentally sit on a pile of 78's by the famed > Scots accordionist Jimmy Shands you would certainly earn the wrath of > Richard Thompson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eNbmcVXtRM
Shands is plural, for the more-than-one-discs. The person was (Sir)Jimmy Shand. And his band. https://youtu.be/B0PeGus0dbU Records produced by (Sir) George Martin, he released a single a month for a while in the 1950s whilst gigging the UK on a daily basis until the early 1970s. Why the Richard Thompson link? Apart from the music, Jimmy was a very keen motorcyclist.... -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
