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> Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2011 08:45:12 -0800
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Travesty...
>
> I just listed the Charleston on ebay yesterday and it is at $20 already. A
> lot of others like it too. Of course the song is popular, but this version is
> extremely '20s jazzy'.
> My taste is pretty eclectic. Some collect to get great numbers of records, I
> collect pretty much only what I like. I buy some things for resale too of
> course, but if a record is rare and I don't care for the music, I won't keep
> it just for the rarity issue.
> John
>
> --- On Sun, 1/16/11, Vinyl Visions <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> From: Vinyl Visions <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Travesty...
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Sunday, January 16, 2011, 8:13 AM
>
>
> Not bad... your taste in music is similar to mine, according to the titles
> you mentioned. I like 20's blues and jazz - Ben Selvin is one of my favorites.
>
> > Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2011 00:35:35 -0800
> > From: [email protected]
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Travesty...
> >
> > There was Mamie Smith singing Crazy Blues..Ben Selvin on Vocalion playing
> > the Charleston, and Sousa's Band playing Maple Leaf Rag...ummm...there are
> > a lot of others I haven't gone through yet. I am sure there'll be some nice
> > stuff. There were 15 boxes, about 300 records or so. I also bought 33
> > Diamond Discs, nothing spectacular but all in very good condition. nicer
> > than most I have seen. Also bought 147 cylinder records, both 2 and 4
> > minute. no 5000s though.
> > John
> >
> > --- On Sat, 1/15/11, Vinyl Visions <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > From: Vinyl Visions <[email protected]>
> > Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Travesty...
> > To: [email protected]
> > Date: Saturday, January 15, 2011, 7:38 PM
> >
> >
> > I forgot to ask: did you get any good records?
> >
> > > From: [email protected]
> > > To: [email protected]
> > > Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2011 22:05:13 -0500
> > > Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Travesty...
> > >
> > >
> > > Nothing like some steel wool and maybe a little cleanser to really bring
> > > out the shine in gold leaf... :)
> > >
> > > > Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2011 18:58:42 -0800
> > > > From: [email protected]
> > > > To: [email protected]
> > > > Subject: [Phono-L] Travesty...
> > > >
> > > > Hey everyone!
> > > > I went to buy some records locally that were being sold by the daugher
> > > > of the man that owned them. He passed away 20 years ago and all has
> > > > been in storage. The real story is that she had sold his phonographs a
> > > > few years back, and one was a...well, she said "there was this one
> > > > Victrola that was all gold leafed.." I asked if it had paintings on the
> > > > front and sides. She said it did. So it was a Vernis Martin...and she
> > > > sold it to some guy for $7500.00. he flew to LA to see it, and she said
> > > > he was sorta disappointed in the condition on one side because "My
> > > > mother tried to clean it with steel wool"!!!!!!!!!! he bought it anyway
> > > > though.
> > > > John Robles
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