Midway through her thoughtful, entertaining history of obsessed music collectors and their quest for rare early 78 rpm records, writer Amanda Petrusich has a revelation. Focusing on one particular ...

In June I was in Whitesburg, east Kentucky, in Letcher County. I was told that a woman outside of town had some records she was looking to get rid of—a friend of a friend found her niece’s number in ...

A 20-something Alabama man may be sitting on a goldmine with thousands of 78 RPM records he inherited from his grandfather. Or. maybe not. Now it’s time for the thrill of the search and research. A 78 ...

Nonfiction: Vintage Records Do Not Sell At Any Price by Amanda Petrusich, (Scribner) The characters in “Do Not Sell At Any Price” are in a state of constant amazement — at the arcane world of rare 78 ...

Amanda Petrusich's fascination with 78 RPM records and the obsessives who collect them led her to the bottom of the Milwaukee River. Credit: Bret Stetka In spring 2011, New York music journalist ...

With almost all the music you'd ever want to listen to available online digitally, the obsessive hunt for scratchy, fragile 78 RPM records may seem anachronistic. But author Amanda Petrusich says that ...

In 1952, a twenty-nine-year-old record collector named Harry Everett Smith squirreled himself away in a two-room office at 111 West Forty-Seventh Street, chewing on peyote buttons and compiling a ...

What is the difference between 78, 45, and 33 RPM records? Obviously most people would say the speed, which of course is true to a degree. But as [Techmoan] covers in a recent video, there’s a whole ...

Reader Gary Kampel motivated me to take on a project I’d been meaning to get to for years. That motivation took this form: My older sister shipped me a box of old double-sided 78 RPM shellac records ...

Frederic Ramsey audio recordings, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, Smithsonian Institution. Permission to publish materials from the collection must be requested from the Ralph Rinzler ...