I am open to trading for 78 rpm records or antique sheet music, prewar jazz. Also, if your looking for a specific record that is not listed on the site, contact me and send me your want lists and i will be on the hunt for you. Explore african sound heritage with this amazing mix of 78rpm records spanning everything from basic yiddish lessons like. Old 78rpm records worth little to collectors archive.
The great 78 project have managed to preserve the sounds of brittle 78 rpm records by creating digital archive of over 78,000 recordings of early 20th century music. The history of 78 rpm recordings yale university library. Listen to this collection of 78rpm records, cylinder recordings, and other recordings from the early 20th century. Saturday, october 4, 2008 those glorious 78 rpm records. Explore african sound heritage with this amazing mix of 78rpm records spanning everything from basic yiddish lessons like kosher kalories featuring.
Still, many command good prices on ebay and other sites, while others fail. Called 78s for short, they were first created in 1898. The files on this page were created using adobe acrobat. Details about lot of 10 1920s40s 78 rpm records shellac for victrola old free shipping. Ethnic african, caribbean and jewish 78s, particularly 1920s30s caribbean. In fact most 78s have little, if any, value to us but we will pay top dollar to purchase the types of vintage shellac, victrola or 78 rpm records we want. Get the best deals on antique 78 rpm music records when you shop the largest online selection at. Use the search bar to find labels, artists or label numbers. See more ideas about jazz blues, extended play and album.
Listen to more than 25,000 digitized 78rpm records for free if you havent heard of it already, the great 78 project is a collection of digitized 78rpm discs that the internet archive has been putting together for almost a year with the help of of volunteer collectors, george blood lp and the archive of contemporary music. We will pay top dollar to purchase the types of vintage 78 rpm records. The boston public library collection has music that was recorded on 78 rpm records from the early 1900s as well as music through the 1980s recorded on lps. Although the 78s we buy are over 50 years old, only certain 78 rpm records are of interest to us. Most people also know that records come in two different speeds the majority records are played at 33 revolutions per minute rpm, while some, usually singles or special editions, are played at 45 rpm. For approximately fifty years, these records carried recorded music, sound, and speech into homes around the world.
How to play 78s tips on playing 78 rpm records pro. Free shipping on many items browse your favorite brands. From about 1898 to the 1950s, an estimated 3 million sides 3 minute recordings have been. Old time record shack buy 78 rpm phonograph records. These recordings were contributed to the archive by users through the open source audio collection. Feel free to make an offer on a 78 or a bundle of them. I have 123 old 78 rpm records, including guy lombardo, frankielaine, vaughn monroe, doris day, perry como and even onefrank sinatra with the hugo winterhalter orchestra 63artists and five. This was the earliest format that wed recognise as a record. The great 78 project is a exciting new resource, since it not only archives a large corpus of important historical music which would otherwise be lost, but does so digitally, enabling us to apply the latest in computing techniques to the study of its high quality audio files.
They are almost always made of a different material than the vinyl that most people would be familiar with. Your ancestors gramophone played 78 records as far back. The great 78 project is a new project by the internet archive to preserve 78 rpm records that has released about 26000 records as of today. The great 78 project community preservation, research. I generally found 78 to be a bit noisy for my liking. Search the historic music 78rpm label gallery below to find pictures of some of the 78 rpm record labels we dont buy such as 45 rpm records from the 1950s thru the 1990s, big band, opera, orchestral or show music album sets, lps or record albums from the 1950s through the 1990s or childrens records. The 50 most valuable 78 rpm records for last week price guide for rare vinyl records, cds, cassettes, reeltoreel and more. Download or listen to boston public librarys 48,000. Make offer very old one sided columbia acoustic 78 by byron harlan and near.
Discover and download over 30,000 original 78rpm records. Preservation the great 78 project discovery records. Valueyourmusic the 50 most valuable 78 rpm records for. We urge you to register here for notifications of upcoming auctions. Dont ever let anybody tell you that 78 records cant sound amazing. I started collecting old 78 records when i found them thrown in corners, on floors broken and scratched at flea markets and antique stores. Welcome to the first in a new series at tone in grooves, focusing exclusively on 78 rpm records.
Perdikopoulos prewar decca odeon 31074 greekexotica 10 78rpm sold for 32. Did you scroll all this way to get facts about 78 rpm records. The collection includes classical, pop, rock, jazz, hillbilly music, early brass bands, and opera. Audacity should do it, although i have never use it. Many previously unheard recordings are now available for free to stream or download. Transferring old 78rpm records to cd july 2016 forums. The 78 period, notes yale library, lasted between 1898 and the late 1950s, when the 33 12 rpm longplaying record fully edged out the older model. Including the original larry david, hawaiian luau jams, and more the great 78 project, dedicated to the preservation, and discovery of 78rpm records, has put over 30,000 78 records online, all of which can be downloaded listen next. Welcome to old time record shack we have hundreds of 78 rpm records for sale at fair and decent prices. Earliest speeds of rotation varied widely, but by 1910 most records were recorded at about 78 to 80 rpm. The project will publish a new digitized 78 rpm record every 10 minutes, and announces new publications on the projects official twitter account.
Listen to more than 25,000 digitized 78rpm records for free. Through the great 78 project the internet archive has begun to digitize 78rpm discs for preservation, research, and discovery with the help of george blood, l. Classical 78 rpm records we will be featuring regular auctions of classical 78 rpm records vocals, instrumentals, orchestral and personality recordings from the first half of the 20th century. Get the best deals on one sided 78 records when you shop the largest online selection at. If you are unable to view acrobat files, simply click on the acrobat reader icon below to install free software that will enable you to read and print the catalog. From blues and jazz, to classical and gospel, the growing collection will take you back in time. From about 1898 to the 1950s, an estimated 3 million sides 3 minute recordings. According to the projects homepage, project members have access to more than 200000 records. Click here for my first black swan label record, this one featuring gospel music by herbert black click here for a comparison of a batwing and scroll victor 12 inch blue label 78 rpm with the same pressings, the first originally issued about 1926, the 2nd about 1935 click here for cy walters first solo album recorded and issued by the liberty music shop in new york, c. Still, many command good prices on ebay and other sites, while others fail to sell or sell at far below original retail. The most common 78 rpm records material is plastic. The type of 78 rpm labels we buy are pre1940s blues, jazz, gospel, hotdance, jug band, country, coon songs, ragtime, cajun, irish, greek and certain personality. Before itunes, cds, 8tracks, lps, or even seveninch eps, 78s were the main medium for recorded music.
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