I really enjoyed watching this. Thank you for posting it. The older I get the more I appreciate those relatively dark ages , pre internet, when collectors had a much more difficult time finding any sort of biographical, historical or discigraphical information pertaining to early records. When I was a kid in the seventies I read everything available at the local library. The most fortunate thing I found was their complete run of Hobbies magazine dating back to the early 1940s and I read all of them multiple times. Eventually I wrote Jim Walsh a fan letter and he actually responded by calling me on the phone and allowing me to ask him questions. I also remember hanging out in Bill Bryants basement many Saturdays in the early 1980s when he was working on information for the Fagan and Moran books which he supplied a lot of information for. He was incredibly nice and knowledgeable! If course Merritt Malvern was selling a catalog of fascinating tape recordings of lectures and programs concerned with various aspects of the early days of recorded sound... There was plenty of information available but you had to dig for it, which made every discovery really exciting!
@boxertrunks4489
8 күн бұрын
Excellent Jack. Librarian here says that it’s your book, you can write, annotate anything you want in it. Glad you mentioned “The Fabulous Phonograph”. Also as a teen ager, I borrowed over and over from the library “From Tinfoil to Stereo” by Read and Welch. Both tomes cemented my love for recorded sound. And looking for discographies became an obsession. I read discographies for artists and labels, not of first interest, but to learn. And to this day, it never stops. Thank you. And your opera 78 vids are superb.
@jfs78
8 күн бұрын
Thank you very much
@stanleycostello9610
13 күн бұрын
Fascinating. I (and many of your listeners, I suppose) would like to hear the low-down on when RCA took over Victor.
@playedon78
12 күн бұрын
I really enjoyed your talk Jack! I have been collecting for about as long as you and am fascinated with your library. For my own part, Brian Rust's books, The fabulous Phonograph, Fred Gaisberg's biography and local record histories in Australia where i live have been my "Bibles" and have their pages turned every day! I especially love the early discs you upload, which i have turned to, far too late in my collecting life. They have become so hard to find these days, but there are still not enough days left in my life to listen to and read everything i want!
@jfs78
12 күн бұрын
Thank you...
@djwein53
12 күн бұрын
Enjoyable talk, Jack! But you never identified the fist book you showed, that started you on your path.
@jfs78
12 күн бұрын
Thank you...The Fabulous Phonograph by Roland Gelatt
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