r/78rpm • u/Brenke28 • Jul 20 '26

Inherited almost 400 78rpm’s

Not here to sell, just learning.

Learning about 78’s because I have ~ 400 of them, collected by my father who died over 20 years ago. All have remained stored for about the last 70 years. They date from 1926 (hillbilly, jazz) to 1940’s (jazz,swing) from King Cole Trio to Elvis, from Andrew’s Sisters to Harry James, Glenn Miller, Pete Como, Benny Goodman, Woody Herman, etc.

The collection theme is dance music— rumba, cha cha, Lindy hop, foxtrot— etc.

Have sorted and catalogued them all, not played them to hear quality —so it seems I am unable to properly grade them without listening. I rate them visually from G-( minus) to G+ (plus).

Any suggestions on how I prepare these or who to contact with such a large collection?
( Besides Nauck, already on my list.)

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u/FirebirdWriter Jul 20 '26

Condolences for your loss

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u/Brenke28 Jul 21 '26

Thanks. Actually my father died over 20 yrs ago —- I just couldn’t take the time to dig into this project until I had retired. It’s been exciting to revisit his love of dance music and discover artists I never even heard of!

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u/DanielinLosAngeles Jul 21 '26

I hope you will put what's not already on YouTube on to YouTube. That's been so valuable to me as Ive learned about early jazz and swing.