Re: [ARSCLIST] Dewey Groom Radio Station Discs

["Thomas H. Stern" <sternth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Contact any of the record companies which produce issues of country music,
among them County, Copper Creek, Shanachie/Yazoo, Bear Family, Document
et.al.  They may wish to purchase them.
Auction them on eBay or elsewhere.
Best wishes, Thomas Stern.

County Records:  www.countysales.com
   County Sales, Floyd, VA.
   ? phone: (540) 745-2001
   ? fax: (540) 745-2008
   ? e-mail: sales@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Copper Creek:   www.coppercreekrec.com/
  copper creek records ? po box 3161 ? Roanoke, VA 24015 ?
  1-888-438-2448 ?
  info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Yazoo:  www.shanachie.com/
  Shanachie Entertainment Corp.
  37 East Clinton Street
  Newton, NJ 07860
  Phone +1 (973) 579-7763
  Fax +1 (973) 579-7083
    contact@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

Bear Family  www.bear-family.de
  BEAR FAMILY RECORDS
  P.O.BOX 1154 · D-27727 HAMBERGEN · GERMANY
  TEL: 04748 -82 16 0 · FAX:04748-82 16 20
  FAX Int:(49)4748-82 16 20
EMAIL: info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx ( Deutsche Kunden)
EMAIL: bear@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx ( International customers

Document Records www.document-records.com/
  Document Records Ltd.,
  Unit 2c Creek Road. Bladnoch Bridge. Bladnoch. Newton Stewart. DG8 9AB.
UK.
  Tel: 01988 403200. Fax: 01988 402333
  info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Dismuke wrote:

> A few years ago, through a bulk purchase of 78 rpm records, I ended up
> with a bunch of center start 78 rpm recording discs recorded by radio
> station KSKY in Dallas, Texas.  The recordings are of a western group
> called Dewey Groom and His Longhorns and the typewritten date on the
> labels indicates that they were recorded in October and November of 1952
> and January 1953.  You can view a scan of one of the labels at:
> http://dismuke.org/etc/kskygroom.jpg
>
> Since that kind of music is not my main interest, I just put them aside
> and pretty much forgot about them.  I recently came across them and did
> a Google search on Dewey Groom.  Turns out that he had a very well-known
> western swing band and toured the country in the late '40s and early
> '50s before he eventually opened the famous Longhorn Ballroom in Dallas
> - an establishment that had once been owned by Groom's friend Bob
> Wills.  Groom purchased the nightclub from none other than Lee Harvey
> Oswald's assassin Jack Ruby.
>
> Altogether there are 27 discs - 25 are two-sided and 2 are one-sided -
> for a total of 52 sides.  Because the recordings are on recording discs
> (the kind with three holes in a triangle around the spindle hole) and
> the labels are typewritten, my thought is that they may very well be the
> only existing copies of the performances.   If so, then I think it would
> be a shame if the performances simply continued to sit silent in the
> collection of someone who is not that big a fan of country.  They should
> be heard by people who appreciate and are passionate about that kind of
> music.  If the performances are unique, I would certainly be interested
> in working with any record label that might consider issuing them to the
> general public.  And if they have commercial value, I could definitely
> use the extra money - perhaps in the form of a cut of the sales.
>
> Unfortunately, since I am not into country, I am not familiar with any
> such labels that might exist.  Does anyone here have any suggestion as
> to who I might get in contact with?