Huge 78 collection (800+) to show: SAT, 10/15, at Great Escape Charlotte Avenue

Huge Collection of More Than 800 Hard-To-Find And High-Demand

78 RPM Records

will be offered for sale to the public for the first time at The Great Escape, 5400 Charlotte Avenue, Saturday, October 15th.

Too large in quantity to display in our main store’s showroom, the collection will be available for browsing in our Special Events Room from 10 am to 9 pm.

BLUES—More than 150 discs from the 1920s and all the way through the 1950s when the likes of Muddy Waters, Blind Boy Fuller, John Lee Hooker, Big Maybelle, Memphis Minnie, and many others when at their zenith.  Early releases on Okeh Records (in great condition with very glossy labels) are Viola Baker rendering “Sweet Man Blues” and little-known artists Butterbeans and Susie letting us know how they feel  “When My Sweet Man Shimmies.”

ROCK & ROLL—Chuck Berry, Fats Domino, Bill Haley and many more take us back to the magic of the 1950s.

COUNTRY (including Old-Time String Music)—Jimmy Rodgers and The Carter Family (of course), as well as other popular entertainers from the era—plus a few not so well known, such as The Roan County Ramblers, The Southern Kentucky Mountaineers; and we love Ramblin’ Red Foley singing “I Got the Freight Train Blues” on an early 1934  release from the Conqueror label.

RHYTHM & BLUES—Doo-Wops and a variety of other groups (The Midnighters, The Crows, The Penguins, etc.,) as well as solo artists Johnny Ace and Ray Charles represent this genre.

If you’re among the select group of people who collect and/or just like hearing your music played at 78 revolutions per minute, mark your calendar for this date, and please alert friends and other contacts about this happening.

FOR INFORMATION CONTACT:
The Great Escape
5400 Charlotte Avenue
Phone:  (615) 385-2116