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First need to clean up the garage and find the damn things!

I have a lot more than that in my garage....

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This is very useful information in determining that the records themselves are of pre-war vintage. This is useful as well, the book-binder angle. Leads me to wonder if this was a one-off, part of a small run done professionally within a certain town, or an "on demand" item offered from a certain business through word-of-mouth.

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"Disguised heirloom", yes, thank you, that is what I'm wondering about. This thing looked professionally done, too much so, it seems to me, to be a one-off. If it looked like a scrapbook kind of thing, I could just chalk it up to individual fuckedupness, but there's a degree of..."production" to this thing that is a little too "efficient" for "comfort", if any of that makes sense. Is there documentation of anything like this being done, it seems like there would have to be more than one of these, it really doesn't look like something that was done as a hobby. I'm tempted to go back and buy it and take it to an appropriate museum/historical society/whatever, but I have no idea where to begin. Maybe I'm suffering from Pawn Stars mentality, looking for that Mark guy with the big hat & beard combo to come walking in and have the whole back story. Is Miller the man responsible for those "Johnny Reb" records?

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I've been hearing this general type of thing for what seems like forever, since the mid-70s, easily. And the records have alwyas, always sounded the same, the instrumentation, the arrangements, everything. It was about as absolutist a traditional form as you could find anywhere. But these recent records, they are very different, the songs sound the same, but the arrangements, instrumentation...this is something different, there's a certain, for lack of a better term, "post-modern" thing going on. How/when it happened, I don't know, becuase I don't really follow this music, I just hear it while scanning the dial, listening to cars drive by, etc. But this new sound, I just really heard it last weekend, and it caught my attention immediately. At first I though it was a joke record, but then they all had this same basic production going on, and I said, wow, something's going on here! Also recently learned that there is a thing called "Narcocorrida", which has been around for decades, but which has been gaining popularity in the US as a parallel to Gangsta Rap lyrically. All about the grisly realities of the drug-smuggling biz on both sides of the border. What effect, if any, all that is having on the music I haven't a clue, but something is happening. I really should get my Spanish together once and for all.

Today I had a very unsettling experience while looking through some 78s - there in the middle of a bunch of innocuous garbage appeared an old-school six pocket sleeve 78 album that on the spine indicated "Organ Favorites" on Columbia, and on the back was a generic Columbia catalog ad, but the front cover...just a regular brown board, but printed with a small, faceless brown-inked line drawing of a head, hairline, and mustache that was unmistakeably Hitler. On the inside front was a taped, a ptinted image and a word in German, not big at all. And then inside, one "regular" 78, but two more of speeches. I found an example of the label here: http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/.a/6a00d8341c464853ef0177444b366e970d-pi And another mention of the records themselves here: http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/music/2012/08/martin-moir-donation.html The really creepy thing, however, was that this album showed no signs of being a homemade paste job, it was too perfectly assembled for anything like that. It had obviously been constructed as a "secret container" or some such. A place for somebody to keep the records on their shelve or to carry them about without calling any attention to itself except by pulling it out and showing it. The thing was mixed in with a lot of other 78 albums and was priced at $3.00, and I really don't think that anybody involved in putting it on sale in the store bothered to look at the details, they likely just saw another 78 album, slapped a price sticker on it, and threw it in with all the others. I didn't buy it, didn't want to buy it, didn't even want to snap pictures of it. Shit like this gives me the creeps from the mojo, and I don't want it in or near my house/family. Call me superstitious, you're probably right, but still... I'm left with the question - is something like this a "known quantity" historically? Was it a post-war thing, some underground Nazi-exile way to keep the memory alive in your new country or something like that. In other words, is there any real, objective historical value to it, dark as it is? I'm fully aware of the sensitivity of an item like this, and like I said, I did not buy it, It was just creepy as hell. But there it was, and I'm left wondering just how many of these things were there in the first place, how many survive, and, really, WTF? in so, so many ways.

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Anybody ever come across this 78, apparently the debut recording of the song? b/w

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