Joe Bussard, a longtime collector of 78 rpm records who built one of the largest and foremost private collections in the country, died Sept. 26 at his home in Frederick, Md. He was 86.
The cause was complications from pancreatic cancer, said his daughter, Susannah Anderson.
He remembered the adrenaline spike when he came across an especially rare and valuable recording, some of them worth hundreds or thousands of dollars. As he told The Post in May: “Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy. I had to hold my hands down to keep them from shaking.”This year, Mr. Bussard said he had about 15,000 records remaining in his basement though he once had more than 20,000. The records filled every inch of the shelves he had built for them in the 1960s.
“Almost mystical,” is how Ken Brooks, a 78 collector from Indiana who became friends with Mr. Bussard over the years, described his collection to The Post this year. “It’s so deep and wide. He has blues records that nobody else has. Country records that no one else has. Jazz records that no one else has.”
At first, he was mostly interested in country songs recorded in the 1920s and ’30s, but his tastes expanded to include early jazz, blues and gospel performers who recorded for Gennett, Vocalion, OKeh and any number of now-obscure labels.made by Long Cleve Reed and Little Harvey Hull for the short-lived Black Patti label in 1927As enthusiastic as Mr.
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