Odd/Rare GLENN WALLICH’S Music City 78 RPM Record Original Take Rae Marriott

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Odd/Rare GLENN WALLICH’S Music City 78 RPM Record Original Take Rae Marriott “Lonely Street” 11 April 47 / “Always” VG++ - due to haze / E Visible Condition. Play is very good. Big time (I’m being facetious) GLENN WALLICH’S Music City Recording Studios Sunset and Vine HOLLywood 8211 FREE PARKING WITHOUT PURCHASE! How could one resist the chance to become the next singing star/starlette?? Especially with free parking! Classy (again facetious) label reminds me of NONE of the beautiful labels in recording history.

Rae Marriott sounds a lot like Fanny Brice – with a cold, laryngitis, and a stubbed toe. For real her voice is a Lot like Fanny Brice (OK, the cold, laryngitis, stubbed toe et al was a bit cruel, I apologize. Some folk will do anything for a laugh! Yes,… me) (next I’ll find out she is heiress to Marriott Hotels)? Could not find Rae! I reckon she’s lost to history.

NOT a joke – I listed another crazy label like this from 1929 and it was a gentleman’s grandfather – the buyer had everything about his Grandpa but the recording – and I had found it and randomly listed it – that was cool. If you are kin to Rae Marriott please message me and we can do Buy It Now.   Your family history deserves to go to you.

Now, my repentance: I could not have been more wr … wro… wrong! Ever heard of Capitol Records? It seems that the little recording studio at Sunset and Vine WAS a big deal at the time and later became known as Capitol Records – well slap me baldheaded!

Wallichs Music City was a famous record store in Hollywood, California, USA, founded by Glenn E. Wallichs, that also had satellite stores as far away as West Covina and Lakewood.

It was located on the northwest corner of Sunset & Vine and operated from 1940 to 1978. Owner Glenn E. Wallichs had started Capitol Records, along with Tin Pan Alley songsmith Johnny Mercer and ex-Paramount movie producer Buddy De Sylva from a small office a little further south down Vine Street in 1942, and moved to larger offices above the store in 1946. After Capitol Records moved into the Capitol Tower in 1956 the offices become the home of Dot Records.

In an era when most recorded music was sold through Mom & Pop general stores across the USA, Wallichs Music City became the premier record store in Southern California and the world's largest specialist record store.

As the market for recorded music evolved during the 1950s and 1960s, it was a place to go for tickets, sheet music, vinyl (initially 78s, then LP's & 45's) and tapes (8 track and cassette). They also sold TVs and musical instruments.

It was one of the first-known music stores to seal record albums in cellophane and put them in display racks for customers to browse. The racks were tabletop height trapezoid-shaped browser boxes (designed by Capitol Records' Frederick Rice) that allowed the covers they contained to be viewed like a card index without damaging the sleeves. The store was also the first to have demonstration booths for listening to records.

The store became a well-known hub of the LA music scene. Music fans flocked there to meet artists like Bing Crosby, Judy Garland, Johnny Mercer, Nat King Cole to have them sign sheet music of their latest hits. Frank Zappa worked part-time there in 1965

Glenn E. Wallichs, cofounder of Capitol Records, Inc., and chairman of the board of Capitol Industries, Inc. a manufacturer of phonograph records and similar products, has annual sales of $150?million, and is traded on the American and Pacific Coast Exchanges. It was formed in 1968 through a merger of Capitol Records, Inc., and Audio Devices, Inc.

Mr. Wallichs, who was born in Grand Island, Neb., had opened Wallichs Music City in July, 1940. At the time it was the largest record store in the nation. It expanded into Wallichs Music and Entertainment, a national record and entertainment services chain.

In 1942 he joined with Johnny Mercer, the singer, and Buddy DeSylva, then a Paramount Pictures executive, to form Capitol Records.

As a boy he always had a fascination with radios. When he was 12, he built a fixedtuned radio receiving set inside a thimble, complete with earphones. Eight years later he installed what is believed to have been the first automobile radio — an Atwater Kent table model with five tuning dials — in a rebuilt Model T Ford. In 1932 Mr. Wallichs set up a small shop in Los Angeles where he sold radio parts and made his own sets for car and home use. He later set up five other shops throughout the Los Angeles area. In the mid?1930's he set up two recording studios which led to the opening of Wallichs.

He was a director of the Boy Scouts of America and member of the board of regents of Redlands University.

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E++, Visibly nearly new with no visible signs of wear or damage.

E+, Looks and plays like new with only few signs of handling and play.

E Still very shiny, near new looking, with slight visible signs of wear and a few nearly inaudible scuffs and scratches

E- Still shiny but without the luster of a new record, few scuffs that have little or no effect on play, some light scratches.

E- - Mostly shiny but with even less of the luster of an E- record, more scuffs than E-that have little or no effect on play, light scratches with some light noise.

VG+, Slightly above average condition 78 in which scuffs and general use has dulled the finish somewhat. Wear is moderate but playing is generally free from distortion. Surface noise not overly pronounced.

VG, An average condition 78 - moderate wear throughout, but still very playable and enjoyable. Surface somewhat dull with noise and scratches audible but not intrusive.

VG-, Quite playable still, but with some distortion and may have some graying in loud passages. Music remains loud in most passages. Surface noise and scratches well below music level.

VG- - Quite playable still, but with distortion and most have some graying in loud passages. Music remains loud in most passages. Surface noise and scratches noticeable and may be loud at times.

G+ Quite worn and scratched, but music level is still higher than surface noise. Grey may be throughout but still serviceable. Music begins to sound muffled.

G Not so good. Wear and scratch damage extensive. Listening can become uncomfortable as music and surface noise probably blending. Lowest level music can be understood.

G-, Music barely audible over surface noise & listening is uncomfortable. Record is borderline unplayable.

P Used only for high dollar space fillers like Black Patti, Okeh blues, etc. Music covered by surface noise, scratches, and needle digs, label may be trashed, & listening is almost if not definitely impossible. Record is basically unplayable. What you keep because you can?t bear to toss ? while you look for that E+ copy of Robert Johnson on Vocalion at the local flea markets for $1 (Good Luck!)

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