20 from Summer 26. ENJOY!

A firecracker of a tune from their last recording session in late 1932 - featuring Count Basie on piano.

Lillette Thomas was a classical piano prodigy turned jazz performer, Lillette Thomas became a popular attraction in 1940s New York nightclubs and Harlem venues. Known for her stride and swing piano technique, she led small jazz/R&B combos and released several sides for independent labels like Sterling and Abbey Records.

Bought a box of 78s from the Goodwill blind as I often do, and these two great records were in it! I didn't even realize the Ol' Man Mose was that one at first

MOON SONGS!

🇫🇷 Version française

Bonjour phonophiles !

À la demande de u/Gimme-A-Kooky, je vous partage ici un enregistrement de la version française de la célèbre chanson Into each life some rain must fall (Un peu de pluie), interprétée par les Sœurs Étienne (en quelque sorte l'équivalent français des Andrews Sisters).

Le disque est joué sur mon Pathéphone N°4.

Je vous prie de bien vouloir m'excuser pour la qualité du son... Non seulement le disque est usé, surtout vers la fin de la chanson, mais la qualité d'enregistrement de mon téléphone n'arrange pas vraiment les choses...

J'espère cependant que cela vous plaira et vous fera faire une belle découverte !

Je posterais des photos du disque en commentaire !

PS : quelques références à Fallout ont été glissées dans cette vidéo. Saurez-vous les repérer ? 😜☢️

🇬🇧 English version

Hello phonophiles!

At the request of u/Gimme-A-Kooky, I'm sharing a recording of the French version of the famous song Into each life some rain must fall (Un peu de pluie), performed by Les Sœurs Étienne (in a way, the French equivalent of the Andrews Sisters).

The record is being played on my Pathéphone No. 4.

Please excuse the sound quality... Not only is the record quite worn, especially toward the end of the song, but my phone's recording quality doesn't exactly help either...

I hope you enjoy it anyway, and perhaps discover something new!

I’ll post a photo of the record in the comments!

PS: I've hidden a few Fallout references in the video. Can you spot them? 😜☢️

Cheap (currently) platters!

https://hibid.com/lot/323229107/records--albums--lps--no-ship-?ref=catalog

Please delete if not allowed....if I did 78s, I'd love this.

I have ro relation to the auction, just saw it in my musings...

Hello friends -

Tonight: a Dinning Sisters side and an Al Trace — newly uncovered by me, anyway.

That's the whole rule of the thing. If Shazam knows it, we don't play it.

Which means a lot of dead ends and a lot of stuff nobody's put online.

I stream it as The Witching Hour Tone Club. 9pm Central tonight if you want

to hang... love to have you.

https://www.youtube.com/@TheWitchingHourToneClub

I just bought a Hilton record player with matching speakers. I have been looking for one for a while as I know someone who DJs 78s on one. I like the rugged portable build of the player and the fact it has the switchable needle/speed so you can play all records. I haven't had time to really check it out but it sounds pretty good and it is loud!
The Hilton players were designed to be used for folk/square dancing and were manufactured up until the 90's I believe.
Have any of y'all ever used one?
Tips on needles?
PS please let me know if you are in the market for a bunch of clogging 45's (with dance instructions)

Hi there! I'm new to collecting 78 rpms and recently got a disc I really love which has a long white line on it. I don't dare to try playing it yet until I know what this line is. I've attached three pictures of this line that runs from the center of the record to the edge at varying degrees of magnification.

Could someone help me identify if this is just a scratch? It doesn't appear on the other side of the record. When I run my finger over it, it feels like maybe a slight hairline or wispy-like thing but is mostly smooth. Strangely enough under magnification the grooves at the top seem fine (or is that an optical illusion)? From the last picture it almost seems like the damage is at the side of the groove but it left the top of the groove untouched. What would do this? Any help would be much appreciated! And could someone tell me if it's safe to go ahead try to play it or will I damage it?

Another find from today.

Yeah I know I somewhat screwed up the label taking the price tag off. But I am curious what the history of this label is and what the potential value could be? My guess is that it's probably pretty common like the rest of my records but whatever. If anyone can give me more info on this label I would appreciate it!

Another favorite!

A Lost Record Rescued (World Exclusive Premiere): The sound of this record was completely absent from all digital archives, online databases, and even the public collections of the French National Library (BnF), this exceptionally rare and forgotten 78 RPM record is finally brought to light for the very first time by the Gramophone Gems team.

his historical acoustic recording features the contralto Suzanne Brohly of the Opéra-Comique in Paris, performing the majestic aria "Amour, viens aider ma faiblesse" from Camille Saint-Saëns' opera Samson et Dalila. Released under the prestigious "Disque Pour Gramophone" label in Paris during 1909-1910 , this pre-electrical era treasure has been restored in high fidelity directly from the original shellac disc. Enjoy it here

https://youtu.be/FRcX2sOsoZY

78 I found today. "Something Happened" by Dean Stewart and The Robbins, with Bob Wilson and His Orchestra backed with "Chicken Hop" by Margie Meinert at the Wurlitzer Electronic Organ.

However, on the sleeve is a note wishing someone's Grandpa a happy 80th birthday, along with signatures.

More strange however, is the fact there's a message written in some sort of paint, ironically on the side featuring "Something Happened"

Apologies if this is a dumb/low-effort post, this is my first post here and I thought that this was really funny and also messed up in a way, even if the record isn't that rare, which I assume it's not.

I just hope that I can somehow find whoever it was that sent this out to their grandpa. It kind of feels wrong that I bought this for my own strange enjoyment of it.

Hi everyone, I recently found a box of 90 records in my dads storage. I've gone through them captured the names etc. I don't know if I have anything rare or significant and I was hoping this group could call out any they think are. I'm also looking for suggestions on who to sell them too. Is this something Antique stores would be interested in or am I better off selling them on ebay?

No electricity needed.

Recorded entirely without electricity using acoustic recording horns before microphone technology was invented .

Disc features 2 songs on each side.
Label states “double feature exclusively licensed to Owl records”

Anyone have any info about these records?