Digitized 78RPM Records

[Rumple]

I'm not sure if anyone has posted this before? it's a huge collection of digitized 78's that are downloadable.

I've just had a listen to some Ray Brown and a version of Tiger Rag by Muggsy Spanier

[url="https://archive.org/details/georgeblood&tab=collection"]HERE[/url]

[SpondonBassed]

[quote name='Rumple' timestamp='1502449142' post='3351504']
...it's a huge collection of digitized 78's that are downloadable.

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[url="https://archive.org/details/georgeblood&tab=collection"]HERE[/url]
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Many thanks, that's a great resource.

[BrunoBass]

Excellent. If you're interested the Smithsonian Institute website has a vast resource of free dowlnloads of out-of-copyright 78s and wax cylinders, it's amazing stuff. I'll try and find the link.

[BrunoBass]

[quote name='PaulGibsonBass' timestamp='1502484203' post='3351837']
Excellent. If you're interested the Smithsonian Institute website has a vast resource of free dowlnloads of out-of-copyright 78s and wax cylinders, it's amazing stuff. I'll try and find the link.
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Fill your boots!

http://www.folkways.si.edu/download-support/smithsonian

[SpondonBassed]

Now you're spoiling us. Got any Ferrero Rochers while we're here Ambassador?

[ivansc]

Before anyone asks, NO there aren't any of my early recordings on there!!!

P.S. Didnt find "Barnacle Bill The Sailor" either. Shame. I would love to find the original version of that. Had it on a 10" 78 when I was a kid.

Edited August 12, 2017 by ivansc

[BrunoBass]

[quote name='ivansc' timestamp='1502528536' post='3351991']
Before anyone asks, NO there aren't any of my early recordings on there!!!

P.S. Didnt find "Barnacle Bill The Sailor" either. Shame. I would love to find the original version of that. Had it on a 10" 78 when I was a kid.
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A quick search on YouTube brings up several versions 😊

[Rumple]

If any of you are on Twitter then you can follow the archive [url="https://twitter.com/great78project"]HERE[/url]

[SpondonBassed]

[quote name='Rumple' timestamp='1502531626' post='3352027']
If any of you are on Twitter then you can follow the archive [url="https://twitter.com/great78project"]HERE[/url]
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If I was on Twitter I'd likely be twittering about it and you'd already know but I forgive you anyway. That link in the OP is an elegant sufficiency thank you.

Heeheehee

I changed my mind about the Smithsonian link that PGB's post links out to. When I went in there for a non committal browse I kept getting teasers but nothing like the content that is in the 78 archive. Lots and lots of yakkity yak though. If I was willing to subscribe to the Smithsonian site it might be better. I'm not.

[NancyJohnson]

How long will it be before there's a 78rpm revival, I wonder?

[ivansc]

"Vinyl sounds sh*t after shellac...."

*sigh* Then we will have arguments over whether blackthorn is better than chrome plated steel for needles.

[Dad3353]

[quote name='ivansc' timestamp='1502555954' post='3352195']...
*sigh* Then we will have arguments over whether blackthorn is better than chrome plated steel for needles.
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There's no argument to be had, there. Spines from Pacific sea urchins or nothing, obviously.

[ivansc]

[quote name='PaulGibsonBass' timestamp='1502530840' post='3352019']
A quick search on YouTube brings up several versions
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Sadly none of them are the first version I ever heard.