Oct. 13—Richard Hinds settles the tonearm gently into the grooves of the 78 record, and the music of Jelly Roll Morton and the Red Hot Peppers rises from the rotating disc and buzzes the room. " ...
Back in the mid-90s most local music stores heeded the consensus that vinyl was dead and stopped carrying it—not an unreasonable decision, particularly considering that the major labels had abandoned ...
1 Reba McEntire Drops Previously Unreleased ANNIE GET YOUR GUN Songs Longtime Blues record collector and expert John Tefteller was the winning bidder at $37,100.00 for a super rare Blues 78 rpm record ...
Reader Gary Kampel motivated me to take on a project I’d been meaning to get to for years. That motivation took this form: My older sister shipped me a box of old double-sided 78 RPM shellac records ...
In 1952, a twenty-nine-year-old record collector named Harry Everett Smith squirreled himself away in a two-room office at 111 West Forty-Seventh Street, chewing on peyote buttons and compiling a ...
Made of ground stone mixed with carbon black and the secretion of the South Asian lac beetle, 78 RPM discs were the dominant sound-recording medium for a half-century. Nowadays, we often think of them ...
The Internet Archive, in partnership with George Blood LP, has been working since 2016 to digitize thousands of 78rpm records, some of which were made in the early 1900s. Over 250,000 records have ...
Midway through her thoughtful, entertaining history of obsessed music collectors and their quest for rare early 78 rpm records, writer Amanda Petrusich has a revelation. Focusing on one particular ...
Music journalist Amanda Petrusich joins guest host Stephen Quinn to discuss the obsessive world of 78 RPM record collectors, their ongoing search for authenticity, and how the interests of these ...
WHAT: ABQ 78 Spinners present a 78 rpm record sale; no vinyl, tapes or CDs; live music by the New Ridge Place Ramblers; part of sale proceeds donated to Wheels Museum WHEN: 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday, Oct ...