Watanabe Hamako – Shina No Yoru (China night / She Ain’t Got No Yoyo) on 78...
I listen to this record quite often, but I only discovered recently that this song called Shina No Yoru (支那の夜, which means “China night”) had a special and controversial story. It was actually not so...
View ArticleZé e Zilda – Olha o côco Sinhá (Samba) on 78 rpm record
I bought this record a few days ago in a very nice place called “La Phonogalerie“, a huge shop devoted to phonographs and 78 rpm records located in the north of Paris, near Montmartre. I found a few...
View ArticleOrquesta Típica Bianco-Bachicha – Angustia (Tango) on 78 rpm record
Even though Buenos-Aires is the birthplace of Tango, Paris played a major role in the history of this dance and musical style. To be more precise, Paris was one the place where Tango evolved from a...
View ArticleThe golden age of Soviet Jazz (1/2) : Leonid Utesov (Леонид Утёсов) on 78 rpm...
You might remember that I posted a few weeks ago this unexpected Russian version of La Cucaracha and wrote about the funny way I managed to find some 78 rpm records in Armenia. Here are two other...
View ArticleThe Golden Age of Soviet Jazz (2/2) : Alexander Tsfasman (Александр Цфасман)...
The first part of this post focused on Leonid Utesov, who can be considered as the most popular Soviet singer of the 30′s. This second part introduces the pianist and composer Alexander Tsfasman...
View ArticleCosmos Elegy (コスモスの悲歌) A mysterious Japanese waltz on 78 rpm record
I did my best but hardly found any information about this melancholic waltz from a Victor Japan record… With patience (and a very useful online dictionary), I managed to decipher the Japanese...
View ArticleSadan Adanali – Aman Adanali, a Turkish folk song on 78 rpm record
Here is a record found in a box of 78s I bought in a flea market near my place a few months ago. “Aman Adanali” (Aman Adanalı in Turkish) is a well known anonymous folk song in Turkey, as evidenced by...
View ArticleWhere to find 78 rpm records : a new section on the blog
I try to find 78 rpm records each time I visit a new place, but the lack of information makes it sometimes difficult, so I decided to create a list and a dynamic map of shops and markets worldwide. You...
View ArticleNgọc Bảo – Cô Tú, a Vietnamese 78rpm
Finding Vietnamese 78rpm records is not that easy, even though a lot of them were pressed here in France during the colonial period, when Vietnam was still part of French Indochina. This one comes from...
View ArticleOea-Oea, an Exotica track by Dick Elgg and his Tahitians on 78 rpm record
This blog has been inactive for a few months… Well, I have often lacked time to post something, or was sometimes just too lazy and prefered listening to my records rather than writing about them. I’m...
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