I wish I had seen this right away. I discarded it the day after posting. I really didn't think with it being empty that anyone would be interested. Sorry about that.

Thank you. Yeah it do. These voices and works are like ghosts of the past. A bit of history captured in sound. I do think it's important not only to have digital archives happening on all this stuff but to rescue as many of them as I can. There's a bunch about 7 hours drive out I want to pick up but can't afford. A collection of over 1000. That would be so much fun to dig through.

@@weirdspins6315 I can't say I'm much different when it comes to chasing records..All my life since I was a little turd..Getting really hard to uncover them these days..Happy Hunting and good luck

Nice score though. Hope you found some real treasure in a lot that huge...

@@weirdspins6315 I think so. Is there a definitive price guide for them? I found stuff that I like, so yes. I really needed a truck. It squated my vehicle real good.....

That was a strange day. It was breezy out when I popped the hatch for first peek. From there I grabbed an SUV and was northbound for an hour to fetch a passenger that had to go to an airport that was a u turn and 2 hours south. That turned into 10 hours of being trapped in flood conditions and trying to keep that suv above the rising water. Meantime back north my car and all inside stayed high and dry.. I got home about 4 AM. 🤣

That is a risk. He was older and typically just hung out by the speakers. A picture disc drew his attention one day and it was so cute I just took some video of it. I appreciate when he is noticed. He was my best 4 legged pal ever and was with me for 18 years. I try to include him at the end of every video. There's another one running around still, who turns up in the vids now and then but he has never taken interest in the turntable. He's a a TV watcher though...

Exactly. Some labels later catered to both format markets. Vocalion sometimes releasing both lateral and vertical compatible editions at the same time. The labels stating which version it is. I showed one of the "lateral cut* labels in a follow up to this. You seem like someone far more experienced with early 1900s press than I am... so you might be able to help on something in the 2nd vid... like Edison some of the early Victor have matching labels with multiple takes released at the same time. These are noted as existing in discogs but there is no descriptive of what to look for and where (assuming dead wax) to determine which take is on a disc... I have a couple of these press with multiple takes, but since the dead wax details are not mentioned I am not sure how to know which version at all. I am making a wild guess on why this was a common practice... thinking bottom line productivity... being audio was lathed direct to disc, maybe getting 3 good takes would make it faster to produce three acceptable pressing plates and speed up manufacture. Just my wild thoughts on that. I might be way off base. Anyway... any idea on Victor's unique identifiers?

It was common for more than one take of a recording to be released to the public in those days. In the case of Leo Reisman's "Body and Soul" (on Victor), a record number of takes were produced between July and October 1930- *17* in all!!! What was finally released were takes "13" {with Frank Luther as vocalist, and Bubber Miley performing a brief "hot" trumpet solo} from September 19, 1930..........and "17" {featuring Frances Maddux as vocalist, and another brief solo by Miley} on October 10, 1930. The rest were either "held" for future issues, or destroyed [nine of them, featuring Don Howard's vocals, were].

I heard, diamond discs with paper label needs a shellac styus and with edged a microgroove stylus.

Hi, nice seeing you here too! 😀👍

@@mrrgstuff Hello, I never expected you to be here lol.

@@digidoridvideos3672 I can't resist seeing someone rummage through a whole pile of 78s! 😅

@@mrrgstuff Me too....

In 78s it's a mix of swing, 20's and before vaudeville type stuff, a few doo wop.amd rockabilly pieces and a few bop era jazz pieces. Also some kids records. Maybe a half dozen on ten inch the rest little Goldens and voco type picture discs. Oh.... a few comedy pieces including some early generically marked "party" records. In LPs the 3 biggest areas are synth and organ progressive art rock- big emphasis on Italian artists, exploitation and b movie film music and all things Disney. Beyond this would be a decent number of wxtreme and technical metal albums, some bop jazz from mostly saf fran late 50s esrly 60s scene, and a small number of baroque classical works and comedy lps. A LOT of colored vinyl, picture discs and shaped discs throughout. Roughly 1000 cds though not all are official and so many aren't in my discogs... much of that is global metal mostly extreme butany subgenres... black, death, folk, power... not really any pop stuff like hair or glam. There's also one and twos of things like Donovan, mama's and papa's, hendrix, classic AOR type stuff on vinyl and hip hop like Missy Elliot, Dre and Jay Z on cd..CD... I tend to like a lot of things leaning toward busier, more intricate and challenging music or kids records that can be fascinating, fun and unusual.

@@weirdspins6315 Oh, cool! For my CD’s, I have mostly R&B, jazz, WWII era music, soft rock, country, and Ennio Morricone recordings. I also have a whole briefcase of country and rock cassette tapes, and even a few country 8-tracks. On a somewhat unrelated note, I make my own music, and have expressed interest in burning my own music onto CDs. What are your favorite labels? Mine are Columbia/CBS, EMI, Polydor, Decca, Odeon, and Warner Bros. Records.

Might be. If it isn't maybe I need to run into a studio somewhere and do a Satyricon cover real quick. 😁

Yeah that 1 didn't seem to be much of a survivor so it wound up going to the curb. A few other Edison diamond disks turned up in the lot though that were in a pretty nice shape.

I'm guessing the victor of Mario Lanza... more 78s will follow in a future video. This guy turns out is letting go of big chunks of a collection of about 5000 so I'll probably pay a few more visits if he doesn't find a lump buyer first...

@@weirdspins6315 nice yeah they're on RCA Victor 45 RPM version with the identical booklet but 7in. They're actually on translucent red vinyl redseal. I've actually had them for over 30 years. I think I just bought it because fascinated by the red discs and the little booklet. My first exposure to Mario Lanza as a boy got it from a flea market cheap

The very back panel of your 78 set of toast of New Orleans should have a biography about Mario Lanza too and I thought that was interesting

It does

@@weirdspins6315 cool. nice little Mario Lanza set - where he sings in English

Good luck with that restoration. Would love to see it

Thank you. Wasn't sure.

You're welcome!

It would have been extra cool to find some blanks in there. If undamaged I'd have probably contacted someone like Mac Stevens would want them... but unfortunately it was just the empty package. No discs inside. Still neat to look over...

Theft

@@jeffreysantner3717 wow. That exists... and I thought Yma Sumac's fuzz rock album was strange. My top wtf album would be Spooky Tooth's Ceremony. Love it and have no idea why. It should be incredibly irritating. 🤣

This guy was nice enough to post it online for giveaway. I got a lot more from him since then at rock bottom... he's also been very nice when I hit some hard weeks with little work and pointed me to some resources. So... I think he tried for a while to sell then put up as last ditch for the lot free to come get. If that hadn't worked out I imagine eventually it would have been a purge.

@@weirdspins6315 That’s good to know.

I have several now. They are pretty easy to find. A bit more obscure, when I was a child I would sing so my mother nicknamed me little loop after an artist called Luke the drifter. In that pile, I found a Luke the drifter record which was kind of exciting because i'd never encountered anything of the artist before To really connect myself with that nickname. It was also on the MGM label. And so after looking it up on discogs I was surprised to learn that loop the drifter was just a Is pseudonym for Hank Williams

For a very long time I was curious to see if I could find records by an artist called Luke the Drifter and found one in that pile. It was a kind of personal reason why something that my mother had given me a nickname that was related to this artist. I was surprised to learn after looking it up on disk cogs that the reason looked at drifter was on MGM the same label as Hank Williams was that there are additional recordings out there under the name Luke the drifter that was in fact a pseudonym for Hank Williams. I wasn't really aware that kind of like Miley Cyrus also being Hannah Montana that this was something that Hank Williams had done as well.