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