How did it start…

I must have been around 15 years of age when I started collecting 78rpm records. The basis of the collection came from my parents . A part was acquired by my dad before he got married during his military service in the Royal Airforce in England and among theme were several records of Deanna Durbin…

At first I found them terribly boring, highly pitched warbling, but later when in 1974 the Dutch TV-station KRO and the Belgian BRT broadcasted several of her films my juvenile heart fell for the honeysweet Canadian soprano…