Thrift Store Records that NOBODY wants
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beatcomber
AK Member
Don't you hate it when you finally come across something bitchen at the GW, like a Coltrane album or something, and discover that the jacket is empty. Or, even worse, the wrong LP is inside the jacket!
chicks
Lunatic Member
Wow, that would have bummed me for a week. Ella and Louis is one of my favorite LPs, and my copy is just about unplayable due to skips. Would love to find another, am stuck with listening to it on CD for now...
wa2ise
Super Member
Was wondering if someone would mention them. My parents have a ton of such "beautiful music" artists' albums. "Beautiful Music" was a name for a radio station format for "elevator" music. An ancestor of "lite" stations.
You haven't lived until you've heard the Beatles' songbook done by Ray Conniff, Mantovani or the 101 Strings...
Cosmic
Well-Known Member
Since someone mentioned Roger Whittaker, he actually has a good voice and good technique.
One of my very first 45s was him doing "Streets of London."
He falls into the Jim Reeves school of singing: a deep, smooth baritone. Not everyone will like them, but the guys could sing.
Now there would be a niche for satellite radio:
"The all thrift-find hits channel"
C.
One of my very first 45s was him doing "Streets of London."
He falls into the Jim Reeves school of singing: a deep, smooth baritone. Not everyone will like them, but the guys could sing.
Now there would be a niche for satellite radio:
"The all thrift-find hits channel"
C.
Bob_in_OKC
Addicted Member
I'd never noticed those Firestone records, but after reading about them here I saw them today!
ekmanning5
Time has told me...
My local thrift just got in a big, and I mean big, slug of Polka, Organ, and Jimmy Swaggert lps. Oh and all kinds of London Phase 4 Hawaiin crap. uke:
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BrocLuno
Lunatic Member
Not bad ...
Acker Bilk is an English jazz musician who plays a seriously good clarinet. Had a few big hits back in the 60's or 70's. I think Midnight in Moscow was one of the biggies. If the LPs are clean and scratch free, you might grab one for a listen. Stranger on the Shore was a pretty cool tune. I have a few and they each have a few really good tracks
Mostly the stuff that I can't get past is almost all Streisand. You know it's not popular if it's pristine and still won't sell
James Last. Or Acker Bilk what kind of name is that? It sounds nasty. I've never heard either one. They could be amazing musicians for all I know.
Acker Bilk is an English jazz musician who plays a seriously good clarinet. Had a few big hits back in the 60's or 70's. I think Midnight in Moscow was one of the biggies. If the LPs are clean and scratch free, you might grab one for a listen. Stranger on the Shore was a pretty cool tune. I have a few and they each have a few really good tracks
Mostly the stuff that I can't get past is almost all Streisand. You know it's not popular if it's pristine and still won't sell
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audiodon
Addicted Member
A few unmentioned ones:
Al Hirt
Organ and Chimes
New Christy Minstrels
Beethoven's 9th
Richard Harris - of Macarthur's Park fame
Dean Martin
Mario Lanza
The music of <your favorite artist here> as realized by <anyone else> preferably with organ and chimes
The Carpenters
Perry Como
and who could forget the incompatible
Percy Faith?
Al Hirt
Organ and Chimes
New Christy Minstrels
Beethoven's 9th
Richard Harris - of Macarthur's Park fame
Dean Martin
Mario Lanza
The music of <your favorite artist here> as realized by <anyone else> preferably with organ and chimes
The Carpenters
Perry Como
and who could forget the incompatible
Percy Faith?
chicks
Lunatic Member
Oh, and all those Herb Alpert LPs? How many musicians have a School of Music named after them?
http://music.calarts.edu/
http://music.calarts.edu/
Bob_in_OKC
Addicted Member
Proof that the albums in the thrifts stores aren't any good.
danj
modern primitive
Was wondering if someone would mention them. My parents have a ton of such "beautiful music" artists' albums. "Beautiful Music" was a name for a radio station format for "elevator" music. An ancestor of "lite" stations.
You haven't lived until you've heard the Beatles' songbook done by Ray Conniff, Mantovani or the 101 Strings...
I once had a quadraphonic demonstration album that was the music from 2001: A Space Odyssey but it was done by one of those million-and-one strings and brass orchestras. The quad effect was fabulous but the music was horribly overwrought. You haven't lived until you've heard Also Sprach Zarathustra played by just strings and horns. When my son was old enough to learn to shoot we used that album for target practice. I shoulda kept it, though, for it's one of those you won't believe it until you hear it records.
Imagine Mrs. Miller singing "Tosca" and you'll have an idea of just how horrible this thing was.
Tube Radio
Super Member
What thrift store were those records at? I would buy those.
Bob_in_OKC
Addicted Member
This is a little embarrassing but I have only ONE vinyl record of the 9th...and I currently have a 6-inch gap in my classical bin. Maybe I'll go shopping today.
