[Phono-L] Uncle Josh and Ada Jones

Douglas Houston cdh041 at earthlink.net
Tue Apr 22 16:13:19 PDT 2008


On the topic of Uncle Josh, I'm going back a long ways, but a minister in
the Carolinas, named John Petty, was THE Uncle Josh fan. I don't know if he
had accumulated a very extensive collection of UJ records or not, but he
was identified with the recordings. I'm trying to identify the year, and it
would have been before about 1994.He was a guy who worked on his car, and
something happened where the car slipped off the jack, and killed him. 

While I'm not an Uncle Josh fan, I often wonder what happened to his record
collection. We always hope that it fell to appreciative ownership. Sadly,
Milford Fargo's Ada Jones collection was dispersed on his passing. 


> [Original Message]
> From: BruceY <Bruce78rpm at comcast.net>
> To: Antique Phonograph List <phono-l at oldcrank.org>
> Date: 4/21/2008 10:59:18 PM
> Subject: Re: [Phono-L] Uncle Josh and Ada Jones
>
> You should have sent a message to this list about Uncle Josh and Uncle
Josh 
> records. We have some folks on this list who are resident experts on the 
> subject.  Have you found alot of Cal Stewart Selections??
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "ger" <ger55 at comcast.net>
> To: "Antique Phonograph List" <phono-l at oldcrank.org>
> Sent: Monday, April 21, 2008 10:41 PM
> Subject: [Phono-L] Uncle Josh and Ada Jones
>
>
> I'm sure you folks know of this site, but just in case... I found it
while 
> trying to locate info on the Uncle Josh records. Boy, Uncle Josh does
ramble 
> on! He reminds me of some of the sales infomercial folks on TV. :)
>
> http://www.gregssandbox.com/edison/uncle_josh/bio.htm  bio of Cal Stewart
> http://www.gregssandbox.com/edison/uncle_josh/index.htm   Uncle Josh
records 
> to listen to
> http://www.gregssandbox.com/edison/ada_jones/index.htm  Ada Jones records
to 
> listen to
>
> I particularly like this site because the song play easily. Some of the
old 
> record sites won't work with my comp without some type of additional SW!
>
> Ger
>
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