I’m okay with doing that myself, should I ever need the silly songs… :-) Better to be able to do a good job of it rather than someone else overdoing it!

I aplause the effort andpreservation, and the rigorous playback variations, but other than preserving a cultural heritage, not loving the tunes.

Except for the comedic version of Twee Liddle Fishies, which I had only heard from Spike Jones before. Quite amusing!

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Lou Judson
Intuitive Audio
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On Jun 30, 2018, at 8:51 AM, 6295LARGE <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Great collection and effort, but why no click and crackle removal? No sound
> quality is lost, only noise.
>
> On Wed, Jun 27, 2018 at 1:37 AM, Brewster Kahle <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>
>> Paul-- thank you for posting the helpful article.
>>
>> Clark-- the condition of the 78's from the Boston Collection are quite
>> good-- I am guessing they did not circulate, but they are not mint.
>>
>> We have a uncoming collection from a distributor, so they are mint.
>> They are from the 40's and early 50's. So looking forward to those as
>> well.
>>
>>
>> We are looking for the best we can get.
>>
>> onward!
>>
>> -brewster
>>
>>
>>
>> On 6/26/18 4:25 PM, Paul T. Jackson wrote:
>>> Here is a note about the Boston records as well as the 78s project
>>> which include 20 other collections.
>>> https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/boston-public-
>> library-will-digitize-200000-vintage-recordings-180966931/
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 6/26/2018 3:33 PM, Clark Johnsen wrote:
>>>> Just askin': Has any attention been paid to getting unworn or un-noisy
>>>> sides for this laudable preservation effort? When I read just now
>>>> that your
>>>> source was a public library where patrons would have been borrowing them
>>>> and/or playing them on any sort of machine, it made me wonder. By the
>>>> way,
>>>> are you in Boston?
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 3:52 PM, Brewster Kahle <[log in to unmask]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> for the fanatics (well, like me), we have another 6,000 78rpm sides up
>>>>> on archive.org as part of the Great 78 Project. (now 74k digitized
>>>>> <https://archive.org/details/georgeblood> total)
>>>>>
>>>>> I was able to find dates for 91% of them, and volunteers have
>>>>> started on
>>>>> others.
>>>>>
>>>>> Lots of Victors and Deccas, almost all from the Boston Public Library
>>>>>
>>>>> link to the new ones:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> https://archive.org/details/georgeblood?and%5B%5D=
>>>>> publicdate%3A%5B2018-06-10+TO+*%5D&sin=&sort=-publicdate
>>>>>
>>>>> onward!
>>>>>
>>>>> -brewster
>>>>>
>>>
>>
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