Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Auction artefact #2: The Land of 78 rpm

I took a few more tentative steps into the record box (one of them, anyway) and tumbled into another era.
There are a couple of dozen old 78s, all surprisingly heavy (about twice the weight of a regular album). They're mostly in plain sleeves but some of them have quite lovely packaging (Australian, to boot).
I wish we had the technology to give this a spin:


God bless YouTube for sharing The Donkey Serenade with everyone.

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