[Jukebox-list] Rudy Vallee 78rpm

[Jjmscf at aol.com]

That's great.Not to burst your bubble but 1 caveat with 78s. Be sure they are 
experienced in shipping 78s. The best packaging I have gotten is securely 
taped between 2 or more layers of corrugated cardboard and placed in a flat box 
and then doubleboxed. I have gotten some poorly packed 78s and they got 
destroyed.
 
Sometimes even a well packaged 1 gets damaged but it helps to pack them 
right.I just had to make a claim on a near mint Elvis Presley "Teddy Bear/Loving 
You" they loosely placed inside of an old  double lp jacket.The double lp jacket 
was wrapped in bubblewrap and well boxed in an lp mailer but poor Elvis was 
flopping around inside.It made a big chip right into the playing grooves on my 
favorite side,"Teddy Bear" and several smaller edge chips none big enough to 
bother anything. In fact Loving You was still playable all the way through but 
"Teddy Bear" was done for.The post office keeps the record and will destroy it 
though.
 
You should have seen the Elvis "Hound Dog" 78 shipped from Canada in a thin 
cardboard envelope. That looked like a jigsaw puzzle.
 
1 record I got though I could not believe it survived.Shirley and Lee "Let 
The Good Times Roll" was received in a padded envelope with styrofoam disposable 
plates as padding.No tape inside just the 78 loose inside with the 2 
styrofoam plates. No damage whatsoever.Go figure.
 
Good luck
J.C.
 
 
 
In a message dated 5/16/2008 9:58:25 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
etreble7 at verizon.net writes:

>Hi all,
>this is a bit off subject but I am so excited I had to share!!  This evening 
I won a bid on a 78rpm in >mint condition of Rudy Vallee's 1930's recording 
of "Good Ship Lollipop" with the Stewart >Sisters.   So what makes this so 
exciting....my Aunt was one of the Stewart Sisters and it's the >first recording 
of the song before Shirley Temple's movie.  I have been looking for this record 
for >years!!!  It's coming all the way from "down-under" but it's so worth 
it.  When you find a record or >jukebox part from way back then, how cool?
>Jackie

 



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