I post this on behalf of a friend who is about to finalize a Tap Dance Reissue Box. We need access to the original 78 rpm discs for state of the arts transfers *_Tap Dance - Final Search List:_* *Slim Gaillard *and his Flat Foot Floogie Boys *1939 * 25469-1 *Beatin' the Board *(S, Gaillard, Squires) *Vocalion 5483* *Lightnin' Hopkins - Houston, TX, 1951* 78 J-483 *Papa Bones Boogie* (L. Hopkins) *Jax 652, Sittin' In With 652* *MW M-4901 or Bluebird B-5736:Syncopated Buck / Military Taps**New York, 1934* Played by Orchestra under supervision of Arthur Murray one of America's foremost Dancing Masters 86204*Syncopated Buck* -- introducing "Black Maria" -- Taps and 86205*Military Tap* -- introducing "Stars & Stripes Forever" -- Taps and Counting There is an American instructional course on 78 rpm where we lack the *written booklet *that must have accompanied the records (which we have). *JAMES R. WHITTON*(October 18, 1897 -- May, 1968 ?) Music: Helen E. Myers New Jersey, 1937-1948? *"Tap Dance Practice" **on Bluebird B-561 562, 563 (3 discs)* ** *_A British Record Set_* *Dance Instruction Series -- Album No. P32: Learn to Tap Dance - London, 1939* Described by *Victor Silvester*, compiled and demonstrated by Philip Buchel CE 9970/71Learn to Tap Dance -- Part 1 + 2 *Parlophone F-1579* CE 9972/73Learn to Tap Dance -- Part 3 + 4 *Parlophone F-1580* *CE 9974/75Learn to Tap Dance -- Part 5 + 6 Parlophone F-1581* *CE 9976/77Learn to Tap Dance -- Part 7 + 8 Parlophone F-1582* *_Most important is the written booklet._* Rainer -- Dr. Rainer E. Lotz Rotdornweg 81 53177 Bonn (Germany) Tel: 0049-228-352808 Fax: 0049-228-365142 Web: www.lotz-verlag.de