Sure enough, when I arrived at his place in New Hampshire, he showed me to an outbuilding tottering with shellac. “Always only $1 each, even if you find a rarity. He assured me that he had a barn-full more back home. Not long after we moved to Boston in 2005, picking through the crates of random 78s he’d brought along for the ride, I met an old gramophone dealer at Brimfield Antique Market. In the heyday of the technology, the city lacked the huge swells of immigration that convinced New York City record companies to churn out thousands of ethnic titles in the teens and ‘20s. In the late 1990s in London, when I began to collect shellac, good ethnic 78s were scarce. Old World Music Classics #29 Nie Zna Śmierci Pan Żywota- Kwartet Braci Okulskich 1929 (Columbia Records) POLISH-AMERICAN
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