Preservation of Correspondence - And Media

[Sridhar Ayengar]

William Donzelli wrote:
>> In my experience _everything_ that has been recorded since about
>> 1917 is available on cd if you go to the right sources.
> 
> Sorry, but you are extremely wrong here. There is a huge amount of
> music that is only available on LP, 45, 78, or other even old formats.
> Most early rock and roll, like 1950/60s rockabilly, has not made it
> past the 45 format, and the same is true for old soul. Lots of live
> jazz never jumped off the LP. There is a ton of stuff from the 1980s,
> like dance remixes and B sides, that never made it. To the extreme,
> there is the whole bootleg market.

Indeed.  I have some recordings of Ignacy Paderewski playing his *own* 
compositions.  Only available on 78.

I've made FLACs out of them just in case.

Peace...  Sridhar