tonio Posted January 21, 2008 Share Posted January 21, 2008 Got about 40 old 78's,lots of Bing crosby,Vera Lynn,George Formby. What should I do with them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asaw Posted January 21, 2008 Share Posted January 21, 2008 Make them into plant pots- holders as they did in the 50's. heat them then shape them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texas Posted January 21, 2008 Share Posted January 21, 2008 Hang on to 'em tonio, if they're in good nick they could be worth a few bob (how old fashioned is that?) If they're any good they can be transfered onto a CD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melthebell Posted January 21, 2008 Share Posted January 21, 2008 sadly 78s are only really worth something if they are early records by big name artists (cliff richard, beatles, elvis etc) or were at the turning point between 78s and 45s.....ie the later 78s are rarer and the earlier 45s are rarer. pity i aint in sheff id have loved the george formby...hes cool for a laugh mind u i have a 33rpm lp of his anyway if theyre in decent condition sell em on ebay, theres also a proper music auction site (ive forgotten the name tho) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goldenfleece Posted January 21, 2008 Share Posted January 21, 2008 if you want rid can I have them? I have an old radiogram that can actually play these things..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alastair Posted January 21, 2008 Share Posted January 21, 2008 Sadly they'll not be worth the effort of selling them. Take them to a charity shop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allen Posted January 22, 2008 Share Posted January 22, 2008 I doubt they are worth ow't. Some years ago I wrote to Sotherby's about my collection of 78's.....mostly classical stuff. Some were bound, and what I considered collectors items. Amongst them was the Kings Christmas Speech from year dot (must check the date), and another was Dame Somebodyorother's (Opera singer) retirement speech. I catalogued them all, and was hoping for a pleasant surprise. I got one, lol. They valued them at about 10 pence each. I kept the two affore mentioned and skipped the rest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shakespeare Posted January 22, 2008 Share Posted January 22, 2008 Got about 40 old 78's,lots of Bing crosby,Vera Lynn,George Formby. What should I do with them? Don't know about the rest but if Hollywood make a movie about Bing and it's a hit then I suspect his records will shoot up in value. I think it's only a question of time before a 'Bing' biopic comes out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tazz070299 Posted January 22, 2008 Share Posted January 22, 2008 Why don't you try eBay? Offer them as a single lot, (pick up only) and if you only get £20 then it's better than a kick in the teeth! Tazz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melthebell Posted January 22, 2008 Share Posted January 22, 2008 I doubt they are worth ow't. Some years ago I wrote to Sotherby's about my collection of 78's.....mostly classical stuff. Some were bound, and what I considered collectors items. Amongst them was the Kings Christmas Speech from year dot (must check the date), and another was Dame Somebodyorother's (Opera singer) retirement speech. I catalogued them all, and was hoping for a pleasant surprise. I got one, lol. They valued them at about 10 pence each. I kept the two affore mentioned and skipped the rest. as i said above, they have to be "name" artists to be worth anything. or really rare / collectible like rare blues and jazz theres the rarest record in the world...a blues 78 Blind Joe Reynolds Long Lost Paramount Blues Record Found Back in the earliest days of recording Blues music, the 1920's, the most famous and desirable records were recorded by the Paramount label of Port Washington, Wisconsin. All the classic songs from Blind Lemon Jefferson, Blind Blake, Charlie Patton, Skip James and the legendary Son House were recorded and released by Paramount. In many cases very few copies were sold as this was a time in history in which Blues was not popular with the majority of Americans and a raging Depression prevented even the targeted African American audience from having the money to buy them. Today these Paramount recordings remain some of the best performances of all time and some of the hardest and rarest records in the world to find. In November 1929 at the Paramount Recording Studios in Grafton, Wisconsin, four songs were recorded at 78 rpm by a Louisiana street musician named Joe Sheppard who, on the run from the law, used the name Blind Joe Reynolds. Within a year, the four songs were released on two records. Neither record sold well, but almost 40 years later, one of the two attracted the attention of Eric Clapton who heard the song "Outside Woman Blues" on a reissue album produced by Blues collectors. In 1967, Clapton and his Cream bandmates Ginger Baker and Jack Bruce recorded a more modern day version of "Outside Woman Blues" on their classic LP "Disraeli Gears." The second record recorded in Wisconsin on that November day, "Ninety Nine Blues" backed with "Cold Woman Blues" has been lost since it was first released in October of 1930. Blues historians and record collectors have been searching for that second Paramount recording since the early 1940's and it is considered priceless. No copies in any condition were ever located . . . until recently. Bruce Smith, a school teacher from Ohio with an appreciation for old Blues records, was attending a teachers' conference in Nashville.With an hour to kill before catching a flight home from a school conference, he wandered into the Nashville Flea Market and found the record in a stack of old 78's. The records were without sleeves and not in particularly good condition, but the price was right at $1.00 each. He purchased three records-two were common Blues records of the 1930's and the third was the long lost Blind Joe Reynolds (Paramount Release #12983.) Unaware of its value, he purchased it simply because it "looked interesting." Not realizing quite what he had, the teacher began searching the internet to figure out exactly who Blind Joe Reynolds was and if this record might be of some significance. One site referred him to Gayle Dean Wardlow's book "Chasin' That Devil Music" published by Miller Freeman Books in 1998. A chapter in that book called "A Devil of a Joe" tells the story of Blind Joe Reynolds and the significance of his recordings. It also said that there was a missing Blind Joe Reynolds recording, which turned out to be the one purchased at the flea market. Realizing he had stumbled upon a rare find, Smith contacted Tefteller for an appraisal, but ended up selling it to him for an undisclosed amount. As it is the only known copy to exist, Tefteller now refers to "Ninety Nine Blues" as the "crown jewel" of his collection. Richard Nevins of the Yazoo label (the largest distributor of reissues of classic Blues and Country music from the 1920's) called "Cold Woman Blues" a "masterpiece." Both sides of the recording have now been remastered and will soon appear on a Yazoo label compilation CD. Pete Whelan, publisher of the bible for Blues 78 collectors, "78 Quarterly," pronounced the newly discovered record "better than 'Outside Woman Blues.' " "Sometimes songs can be long lost for good reason-they are not very good and didn't sell well because of it," Tefteller explained. "But not so in this case-this is a GREAT record. Reynolds plays a mean slide and really mumbles his way to immortality on 'Cold Woman Blues.' The significance of this record is mind-boggling! It may not be as important to Blues history as finding the long lost Son House Paramount recording of 'Clarksdale Moan,' but it's real close!" Tefteller predicts that the record will become a favorite of Blues fans worldwide and that someone, maybe even Clapton, will record a new version of it. He has uploaded both sides of the record onto his website (tefteller.com) and they can be heard there. Blues lovers all over the world are encouraged to log on and listen. He said, "I'm just glad to be able to share it with the world." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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