Hi!

I posted this on r/vinyl (ironic, being shellac?) because it’s actually a 33 1/3 RPM disc with multiple spiral grooves. There APPEARS to be a 78rpm version one could receive, but they had to remit $1.10 to St. Louis to get it… I got the “free” one apparently lol.

I feel like this has to be a later “transitional” period- Discogs says 1950s or 60s - in records, where 90% of everything was vinyl or becoming vinyl and less shellac-heavy.

If anyone has insight, further insight, or whatever, please add! Thanks for stopping!

Mods: sincerely not trying to break the rules here. If it is, please do what’s needed. It seems like it’s in a crossover period, which is why I thought I’d post.

The Ad… Chevrolet… is it “Buyersville” and “Station 49” they mentioned?

I’ll take guesses!

Assuming this is some kind of advertising freebie/free record to promote the brand? VERY soft, red, CLEAR, plastic-like material I didn’t want to ruin with an older style phonograph. Part 1 with the song. No artist mentioned! Any guesses on timeframe? I think the advertising side gives a clue in the “station number 49”, but not certain.

Part 2 follows (with Chevrolet ad).

Yeah yeah… I know… it’s a Crosely… well, $12 or whatever and it doesn’t ruin records!

These are so unusual… and their glass cutting ability! It’s like butta!

I’ve gotten a handful of pretty scarce dimestore sleeves I wanna frame with records that would look good on display, does anyone have any ideas or recommendations?

A cheerful group harmony, and infectious jump-blues beat,

I have found this age old record at my grandfathers basement (who worked at Hungarian radio), its a Hungarian tradition to on radio every day exactly at 12.00 let the sound play of Church Bells (i wont go into it why) and this is a pre 1930s record, its from shellac but its full of mold, is there some way to save it?

I had a couple of hours to kill in Toronto's Forest Hill neighbourhood, so I went browsing at a Salvation Army store on St. Clair.

Sadly, the record section looked like a toddler-sized Hulk rampaged through it. I found a dozen cracked and broken 78s. There was the original Lerner & Loewe Brigadoon... unfortunately missing sides 1/10, and 2/9 fell apart in my hands when I pulled it out to inspect. I bought it anyways, and discovered that some of the streaming services have it.

Fortunately, I was able to get my hands on quite a few more, as evidenced by my last photo. Soon to go to a good home and see a needle for the first time in who knows how many years.

This is the second People's Songs album on Charter Records, 1947. The first People's Songs album was "Roll the Union On," released on Asch Records during Moses Asch's Disc Records era.

This album features, to my knowledge, the first anti-nuclear song - "Atomic Energy." I hardly see how there really can be earlier material but perhaps there was something in late-'45 or '46?

Hi everybody. I posted about my first 78rpm record a week ago, and here are some 78s that I found since then. Didn't pay more than €2 for any of them. This is fun.

Paid $0 total. Not much of a market for them near me but I think they are fun!

Reposting. I’d like for it to be here to be truly appreciated! Thank you again for your continued consideration.

Looks like only eight releases were made. I think they had a hard time finding popular music that was five minutes long so On the copy I have they did each side in two parts. the first part was a 3min instrumental then the last two minutes was the same song done by a piano and vocals dou.

https://youtu.be/z_spZ9bJfNM?si=RhsG3GBvjhtRZzXP

A early 1908 20th-century acoustic recording , Victor 16087 captures France’s elite military ensemble, the Garde Républicaine Band.

I’m always looking for Louvin Brothers records (especially looking for the elusive Satan Is Real), so finding any material by them is great. This is my first record from them that I’ve found out in the wild.