For example, say Columbia and Brunswick told everybody that their records were recorded at 80 revolutions a minute. They were recorded at all kinds of different speeds. It turns out that 78.26 revolutions per minute is the function of the electric motor. “78” really refers to records that were made before the LP era, but not all of them were recorded as 78s. Victor and Columbia had been around almost since day one making 78s. Brunswick put out a lot of records, and Capitol. Herzenstiel: There was Victor, of course, and Columbia. Collectors Weekly: What were some of the major labels that produced 78s? There were some vinyl 78s pressed and those just sound spectacular, no comparison to a CD, an LP or a 45. People were going for LPs because it got 20 minutes of music on a side.
Unfortunately, by the time vinyl was introduced to the public, 78s were on the way out. The best quality are those 78s that were pressed in vinyl. You can send these out into space and they’ll be able to play them. All of a sudden it starts to play and you hear music because it’s using the paper as a diaphragm to vibrate the air. You can put a 78 on a turntable and then take an 8 1/2 by 11 sheet of paper and put a corner of it on the 78. You’re not trying to use ones and zeroes to recreate a natural wavelength like CDs do the wavelength is right there on the 78, so it doesn’t need to be recreated. The amount of media that passes underneath the tone on the pickup is just a much higher sampling rate. That has to do with the way they were made. The fidelity on a 78 blows everything else out of the water. But you don’t have the quality of sound you have on a 78. I wouldn’t say CDs are lazy man’s music, but just like MP3s, they’re very convenient.
That’s the kind of garbage that we had in the ‘70s. You’re not going to get another band doing Tommy Dorsey hits or Tommy Dorsey’s band in reprocessed stereo. But at least nowadays when you get a CD that says “Tommy Dorsey,” you’re going to get Tommy Dorsey’s orchestra. Most of the collectors now are going to CD. I wish there were more people that I could give my extras to, but there aren’t too many. I’ve been collecting for about 26 years now. We play music of the 1930s and ‘40s and some Sinatra stuff, so the records dovetail right in. “All of the early record companies made more money on the cabinets than records.” It just didn’t have the energy the original big bands had, and that’s really what I was looking for. You didn’t actually get music from the Tommy Dorsey big band you got music that Tommy Dorsey made famous done by a bunch of studio musicians who were getting what sounds like minimum wage. Half the time it was like a tribute to Tommy Dorsey. I generally avoided LPs for a long time because of their inferior quality. I was like a kid in a candy store, trying new flavors. I could get all kinds of different bands from different eras that I had never heard before. Also, I found that with 78 rpm records, I was guaranteed to get the bands I wanted to get. When you did find old material, it was just butchered. When I first started collecting in the ‘70s and ‘80s, a lot of what was out on LP and marketed to the general public was later stuff. I really didn’t know that this music was out on LP. It was pop music, and it was popular for a good reason. I finally settled on big band swing and jazz, which I like because it’s very listenable. I went to garage sales and got all the 78s that I could.
I just thought to myself, “I wonder what is really recorded at 78, and what kind of records actually play at 78.” That way, I couldn’t understand the vocals anymore, and it made the tune very upbeat and really fast. I liked vocals when I was young, and I used to play my mother’s records at 78 rpm because they were mostly 45. I keep them in a room in the basement that has to be humidity controlled with very little humidity at all because mold will grow on the records. I have about 20,000 records in my collection at my house and another 7,000 at another house.
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