My youth. This is how mail orders did work back in 1956. Located in Milano, Italy, I went in a change shop near the cathedral, bought some dollar bill, (this 10" record cost was 4,25$), put them in an envelope, sent it to Folkways, 165 West 46th Street New York, and some 40 days later I received the package. Never a record got lost. I did play this record many times. Nothing was known about the singer, apart from the notes on the enclosed leaflet. The code of this record is FA2022A, dated 1952. Remember gold was at 35$/ounce, this would mean nearly one gram of gold per dollar, cost would be about 200 dollars now. Yesterday I bought in Milano another such record in near mint condition at the low price of 2 dollars. A collectors item! as 33 rpm records began publication in 1948. It sounds very fine after 70 years, I doubt a CD will last such a long time.
I bought my first two Cisco Houston albums at the E.J. Corvettes dept. Store in Port Chester NY. Played them over and over on my mother's console Magnavox record player/radio and I was hooked forever. This man was one of my singing and Guitar teachers, Although he never knew it, and just like my early teachings from Johnny Cash I still play Cisco on my Gibson. His guitar style was not complicated but his voice was rich and pure. Probably could have sung any type of music of that era. I only wish I could have told all those great musicians and singers of that era how much they taught me. And how much I appreciated their brief presence on this earth. Thank you, Cisco. Picking up those two albums was no accident. It was ordained.
Woody sent me. Thanks to you, the internet and YT this music will not be lost.
My youth.
This is how mail orders did work back in 1956. Located in Milano, Italy, I went in a change shop near the cathedral, bought some dollar bill, (this 10" record cost was 4,25$), put them in an envelope, sent it to Folkways, 165 West 46th Street New York, and some 40 days later I received the package. Never a record got lost.
I did play this record many times. Nothing was known about the singer, apart from the notes on the enclosed leaflet. The code of this record is FA2022A, dated 1952.
Remember gold was at 35$/ounce, this would mean nearly one gram of gold per dollar, cost would be about 200 dollars now.
Yesterday I bought in Milano another such record in near mint condition at the low price of 2 dollars. A collectors item! as 33 rpm records began publication in 1948. It sounds very fine after 70 years, I doubt a CD will last such a long time.
I bought my first two Cisco Houston albums at the E.J. Corvettes dept. Store in Port Chester NY. Played them over and over on my mother's console Magnavox record player/radio and I was hooked forever. This man was one of my singing and Guitar teachers, Although he never knew it, and just like my early teachings from Johnny Cash I still play Cisco on my Gibson. His guitar style was not complicated but his voice was rich and pure. Probably could have sung any type of music of that era. I only wish I could have told all those great musicians and singers of that era how much they taught me. And how much I appreciated their brief presence on this earth. Thank you, Cisco. Picking up those two albums was no accident. It was ordained.
criminally underrated
Classic!
so beautiful....vraiment très bien !!!!
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12:14 is same as Woody Guthrie's "Black Diamond" song from 1949
Cisco and Woody were very good friends and did shows together travelling with one another across America