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Title: WAXING NOSTALGIC
Post by: bk on August 29, 2006, 12:25:00 AM: Well, you've read the notes, the notes waxed nostalgic, I'll be waxing my car, and now it is time for you to post until the cows come home - they're waxing nostalgic for the favorite moosic.
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Post by: bk on August 29, 2006, 12:26:36 AM: And the word of the day is: VATICINATE!
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Post by: Tomovoz on August 29, 2006, 12:37:51 AM: "Vaticanate". Italian pop group disqualified in the semifinals of the 1959 Eurovision Song contest when it was realised that their chosen song was based on a rather racey Gregorian Chant. The song has actually won the prestigous San Remo Song Festival's chorale award earlier in the same year.
"Ciao Ciao Bambina" (Poive) was the replacement entry for Italy in the Eurovison Final that year.
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Post by: George on August 29, 2006, 01:05:57 AM: First story about the Topic of the Day: sometime in the mid-to-late 1980s, I was at Tower Records in Tacoma (no longer there) and I bought (brand new), the original Broadway cast recording of 1776 "Starring William Daniels, Paul Hecht, Clifford Davis, Roy Poole and Rex Everhart." Even though Howard Da Silva actually did the show, I knew that he had had a heart attack and wasn't able to record the show. Anyway, some time later, I was there again (nothing unusual about that) and there was another copy of 1776, but the jacket of this copy said "Also Starring Howard Da Silva"! The back of the album cover listed "Howard Da Silva" as Ben Franklin both in the cast list AND the synopsis! I didn't know if this was ANOTHER recording, but I bought it anyway. It turned out, however, that the actual record label on the disc had Rex Everhart's name, even though the jacket said Howard's. Regardless, I still have both those albums. :) And the CD with the correct cast information...and the London cast recording (think about that, the LONDON cast recording of 1776 ;)
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Post by: George on August 29, 2006, 01:07:53 AM: I love that musical!

;D
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Post by: Maria on August 29, 2006, 01:21:11 AM: Lovely requiem for the Record Store.

I used to love Sam the Record Man on Yonge Street in Toronto. Started going there as a kid -- and each time I went was a little adventure. Sometimes after a concert at Massey Hall, a wonderful old concert hall in TO, very close to Sam's, I'd go and get an album by the artist I'd just seen. My favorite section was upstairs - all sorts of discoveries there. Even a Hungarian section.

I just looked it up to see if it's still there, and it is! You can read about the store at
http://www.samtherecordman.com/content.xml?cid=about_sams
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Post by: Tomovoz on August 29, 2006, 01:31:40 AM: Thanks for the link Maria. I suspect I shall pay a visit in a few weeks time.
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Post by: George on August 29, 2006, 01:36:48 AM: Here's something interesting (or not ::)) that I just remembered: The very first cast recording that I ever knew to be released on CD but NOT on LP at all (and can remember as such) was Once On This Island. Just had to share. ;)
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Post by: Tomovoz on August 29, 2006, 01:37:00 AM: I miss record stores too. The first discoveries that come to mind are "Tone Poems of Color" - conducted by a Frank Sinatra" and "Golden Biscuits" by Three Dog Night. 3DN were not that well-known here - except for "Joy To the World".
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Post by: George on August 29, 2006, 01:37:43 AM: And on that note (F#), I'm off to bed. Good night and good evening!
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Post by: Tomovoz on August 29, 2006, 01:41:16 AM: Good night and good evening indeed.
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Post by: S. Woody White on August 29, 2006, 03:30:52 AM: Quote from: bk on August 29, 2006, 12:26:36 AM
And the word of the day is: VATICINATE!
Sophia loved to VATICINATE, but her every prophecy seemed to have a CAVEAT IN IT.
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Post by: Michael on August 29, 2006, 03:50:38 AM: Quote from: Maria on August 29, 2006, 01:21:11 AM
Lovely requiem for the Record Store.

I used to love Sam the Record Man on Yonge Street in Toronto. Started going there as a kid -- and each time I went was a little adventure. Sometimes after a concert at Massey Hall, a wonderful old concert hall in TO, very close to Sam's, I'd go and get an album by the artist I'd just seen. My favorite section was upstairs - all sorts of discoveries there. Even a Hungarian section.

I just looked it up to see if it's still there, and it is! You can read about the store at
http://www.samtherecordman.com/content.xml?cid=about_sams

I remember Sam The Record Man. I loved their Boxing Day Sales (The Day Christmas) We would wait outside in line until the store open and I would go directly to cast album/soundtrack section (not that manypeople went there) Many of the records were imports because they did not have an equivilant company for distribution. At Sam the Record I discovered an import from the US of an album from Varese Sarabande called STAGES. The cover intrigued me and the pcitures and synopsis sold me. I was just starting to study theater and cinema so I thought I give it a try. This fellah named Bruce Kimmel I remembered from The Patridge Family and other shows. I thought he was good so I thought why not? It became one of my favorite cast albums.

Other recordings of shows I bought because of their covers included 110 in the Shade & The Robber Bridegroom.

I used to collect the rare and unsually cast albums from speciality stores. I must have spent several thousands over the years. I would buy them anywhere I would visit. NYC, Boston, Cambridge (Found the Japanese cast of Hair there) Those were the days.

When CDs came a long I saw my investment go out there door. Who would want to spend $50 or so on an LP when you get a CD (usually with superior sound) for $10 or so??

I miss those days. I miss Sam the Record Man. I will miss Towers. It makes feel old when these things disappear.

Just like EATONS, SIMPSON, OGLIVIES, in Canada. A sign of the times.
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Post by: Michael on August 29, 2006, 03:56:26 AM: Quote from: bk on August 29, 2006, 12:26:36 AM
And the word of the day is: VATICINATE!

Didn't Tom Lehrer sing the VATICINATE RAG?

First you get down on your knees
Fiddle with your rosaries
and then you genuflect genuflect
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Post by: Ben on August 29, 2006, 04:20:09 AM: Cil, you're right, I did discuss Grey Gardens. I think it's brilliant. I love, love, love it. There are many people who feel as I do but I do have to say that the show opened to mixed reviews. Those of us who love it, do so with a passion. Many people didn't like it at all. It's not for everyone but I found it intelligent, funny, quirky (the second act) in all the good ways and with an amazing performance by Christine Ebersole. Her second act opeing number, The Revolutionary Costume for Today left me gasping. If she had done the show on Broadway last season she very well could have won the Tony. I'm so glad that most of the original cast will be in the new production including Matt Cavanaugh and Mary Louise Wilson.

I haven't yet been able to see the documentary. It's available at Anthony's Long Island library and we're out there for the Labor Day weekend. I'm going to try and get it this weekend and watch it. We're going out for the holiday but Ant's dear old friend (I mentioned her a few weeks ago) has had a bit of a relapse. She had fallen and gone into the hospital and Ant went out to make sure she was alright. Her recuperation was going along but she's always had low blood pressure (instead of high blood pressure) and yesterday we got a phone call from George, her husband. He took Elinor back to the hospital because she's dizzy and has other problems. I think some of it is related to the medication she's taking but I don't know any other specifics. Anyway I digress. Ant will go out early to check on Elinor and will probably stay out there for a few days after Labor Day so he can help out. ANYWAY, that long intro all leads into the fact that while he is at the hospital with Elinor, I will sit in the den and watch the documentary of Grey Gardens.

Donald's current radio show still seems to be 24 Degrees of Separation. If you haven't listened to it, the show opens and closes with numbers from Grey Gardens and you'll get to hear The Revolutionary Costume for Today!

Enough with this post. It's long enough to be a short story by BK.
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Post by: Ben on August 29, 2006, 04:24:04 AM: My first record experience wasn't a record store but the Minneapolis Public Library! That's where I discovered records. It's where I first found Celebration, that black album with orange writing. It's where I found All American and Do Re Mi. I knew the audio section of the library like the back of my hand. I would go at least once a week and take out all the records I could (I think the limit was 5 at a time). The budget for new purchases was pretty good and whoever worked in Acquisitons must have had a musical theatre gene because I got to hear lots of great shows. They also had a wonderful folk collection. It's where I first discovered the Chad Mitchell Trio, Pete Seeger and Peter, Paul, and Mary.

Thank you Minneapolis Public Library!
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Post by: Ben on August 29, 2006, 04:24:28 AM: I'm here by myself and now I must leave. Work calls.

Later, gaters.
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Post by: elmore3003 on August 29, 2006, 05:29:46 AM: Good morning, all! Didn't Catholic schoolkids who didn't turn in their homework claim the "Vatican Ate" it?

And now for my second question: who is SGurey? We keep having these Trivia winners I've never heard of. Why don't they at least jump into the fray instead of lurking? After all the constant BK barrage of bitchslapping threats, some of these lurkers could do more than take hom a damn prize!

Today, I have a jaunt to Toyland and a trip to the NYPL to help Jeremy Megraw with his photo inquiry. I have to write this choral finale which haunted my sleep last night, so that's taking some time as well. I may also run to the Post Office, but it all depends on schedule.

TOD: In the mid 1950s Rogers' Jewelers had a small record store in their shop, and I remember shopping trips there with my Aunt Dorothy. The only record cover I remember looking at is the soundtrack recording of the 1954 animated film of HANSEL AND GRETEL conducted by the great Franz Allers. Later, as malls became popular, Davidson's Photo Shop had a nice record dept., as did Norris Music on First Avenue. Mrs Norris ordered for me the 1954 THREEPENNY OPERA cast recording with Lenya and Jo Sullivan, and I remember purchasing lots of cast albums at Davidson's along with the occasional Gilbert & Sullivan reissues on London's budget label Richmond.

In college, Hossack Jewelers had a record dept run by Mr Hossack's enormously fat and ultra-conservative wife Ruth. Ruth would go to peace marches in Oxford, OH, and ban any participant from her shop. She was an alcoholic and a bigot, but she had one of the finest record collections in the USA at the time: two copies of everything in print except for artists she personally blacklisted: Judy Collins, the Mitchell Trio, the Weavers, etc. I once asked her if she had any Mitchell Trio recordings on Kapp, and her response was "I don't carry them." It wasn't until I knew her better, and worked for her in the summer of 1970, that I learned her reasons. She hired me because she had gotten so huge that she preferred to spend her time in the apartment above the store, and she would spend at leat two or trhree hours a day talking to me over the phone. One day when she was in the store stocking new releases, several black high school students came in (to see me, it turns out, since they had been in the summer theatre production of BYE BYE BIRDIE from a year before). He comment when they came into the store was "keep an eye on them, they'll rob us blind." After they visted with me a bit and left, she apologized for her comment, saying she hadn't realized they were friends of mine. I'm sure in retrospect that was my first fall off my pedestal.

For classical, jazz, spoken word, and performance, Hossack's got calls from all over the country. I would read record reviews at the Miami U Library magazine section -especially the bound volumes of past years - make lists of records I wanted, and Ruth usually had one or two stocked away. It was a wonderful store, and she was quite a character with a quirky sense of humor. I didn't approve of her politics or narrow mind, but I was strangely fond of her and I loved her store. I was lucky the theatre dept kept me too busy for attending peace marches!
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Post by: Ginny on August 29, 2006, 06:36:19 AM: Tuesday morning greetings!

TOD - Cetnar's on Joy Road in Detroit, in the 1950's and 1960's. I remember going there for recordings by The New Christy Minstrels and a new girl singer who had recently played Detroit's Caucus Club (http://www.caucusclubdetroit.com) - Barbra Streisand. Cetnar's was in the same block as Stromboli Pizza (affectionately known as Strom's). Locally-owned pizza places seem to have gone the same way as record stores - sigh. Both Cetnar's and Strom's had closed, along with most of the businesses on Joy Road, by the time I graduated from high school. My parents moved to the 'burbs right before I went away to college.
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Post by: Jrand73 on August 29, 2006, 06:48:16 AM: Lovely record store memories in the notes and in the posts!

DR DAKOTACELT - what show were they promoting that day....I can do a search that week on Newspaperarchive.com and maybe find it for you.
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Post by: Jrand73 on August 29, 2006, 06:48:43 AM: RE: My new avatar....DR RLP....perhaps I am actually feeling MORE like myself than usual!
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Post by: Jrand73 on August 29, 2006, 06:49:36 AM: Well.....it was NOT the brakes. It was a wheel bearing....so I drove the car from BIG O to Westgate Chrysler where it was fixed and is now waiting for me to pick it up.....no charge....covered under the warranty!
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Post by: Jrand73 on August 29, 2006, 06:55:07 AM: I bought records EVERYWHERE.

I used to like to see the covers in those cardboard ads for COLUMBIA RECORD CLUB in the Tv Guide. I would cut them out and use them as props in my sister's doll house. Sometimes I would make collages of them on a piece of paper.

I bought my first record....an album for 88 cents at a grocery store....THE KIRBY STONE FOUR....

We had several chain record stores in the Indy area....Peaches, Merry Go Round, and a couple of others whose names I can't remember. There is a CD store in Mooresville....used to be a record shop....where you can still buy theatre tickets....the name escapes me.

The first time I walked into a record store and saw bins FULL of CD's and one small bin of LP's WAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYY in the back - I knew the times they were a 'changin'.

My favorite record store was at about 52nd and Keystone in Indy....and it was called Rockin' Billy's. Full of new AND used 45's and LP's. I often went there on my lunch hour from the Indiana School for the Deaf. I bought a LOT of soundtrack and cast album LP's there....including RED GARTERS and WHITE CHRISTMAS....POLLY BERGEN in THE HELEN MORGAN STORY, a set of 45 rpm EP's.....some Annette.....

Don't know if it's still there....but it was FUN!
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Post by: Cillaliz on August 29, 2006, 07:05:02 AM: Quote from: Ben on August 29, 2006, 04:24:04 AM
It's where I first found Celebration, that black album with orange writing.
Thank you Minneapolis Public Library!

I loved Celebration. I played Potemkin in a college production.
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Post by: Cillaliz on August 29, 2006, 07:10:01 AM: The first record I bought for myself was The Jackson Five Third Album, I had lots of kids records, but that was my first "real" record.

I loved records and bought them all the time, also wherever I could, the grocery store, the discount store, several record stores, but my favorite was Blue Sky Records. It was a little shop that had all sorts of wonderfully fun stuff. I almost worked there one summer, but I got the job at the bank and took that instead.

There is still a great used record store in Sioux City - Uncle John's Records. I had another friend with a great record storem but they condemned the building he was in and now he just does that online
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Post by: Cillaliz on August 29, 2006, 07:13:05 AM: Quote from: Ben on August 29, 2006, 04:20:09 AM
Cil, you're right, I did discuss Grey Gardens. I think it's brilliant. I love, love, love it. There are many people who feel as I do but I do have to say that the show opened to mixed reviews. Those of us who love it, do so with a passion. Many people didn't like it at all. It's not for everyone but I found it intelligent, funny, quirky (the second act) in all the good ways and with an amazing performance by Christine Ebersole. Her second act opeing number, The Revolutionary Costume for Today left me gasping. If she had done the show on Broadway last season she very well could have won the Tony. I'm so glad that most of the original cast will be in the new production including Matt Cavanaugh and Mary Louise Wilson.

I haven't yet been able to see the documentary. It's available at Anthony's Long Island library and we're out there for the Labor Day weekend. I'm going to try and get it this weekend and watch it. We're going out for the holiday but Ant's dear old friend (I mentioned her a few weeks ago) has had a bit of a relapse. She had fallen and gone into the hospital and Ant went out to make sure she was alright. Her recuperation was going along but she's always had low blood pressure (instead of high blood pressure) and yesterday we got a phone call from George, her husband. He took Elinor back to the hospital because she's dizzy and has other problems. I think some of it is related to the medication she's taking but I don't know any other specifics. Anyway I digress. Ant will go out early to check on Elinor and will probably stay out there for a few days after Labor Day so he can help out. ANYWAY, that long intro all leads into the fact that while he is at the hospital with Elinor, I will sit in the den and watch the documentary of Grey Gardens.

Donald's current radio show still seems to be 24 Degrees of Separation. If you haven't listened to it, the show opens and closes with numbers from Grey Gardens and you'll get to hear The Revolutionary Costume for Today!

Enough with this post. It's long enough to be a short story by BK.

Thanks Ben, I am fascinated by the story and plan to see if I can find the DVD around here. It looks like there was a later release of the DVD with more footage, commentary etc. I did get tickets for the Saturday Matinee. Front row Mezzanine. They are off to the side, but not all the way over, so I figure they should be pretty good seats.
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Post by: Jrand73 on August 29, 2006, 07:17:59 AM: DR PENNYO - yup those of use who spend a lot of time in front of people take it for granted that everyone can do it.

However the NUMBER ONE fear in the US (even more than death) is speaking in public.
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Post by: Jrand73 on August 29, 2006, 07:39:00 AM: If you are going to wax nostalgic, remember you have to buff it as well.
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Post by: Ben on August 29, 2006, 07:47:53 AM: Quote from: Cillaliz on August 29, 2006, 07:13:05 AM
Thanks Ben, I did get tickets for the Saturday Matinee. Front row Mezzanine. They are off to the side, but not all the way over, so I figure they should be pretty good seats.

Front row mezz in the Walter Kerr off to the side should be fine. I've been up there and the seats are OK. The aisles, though, are VERY narrow. At the opening night of Waiting in the Wings (a less well known Noel Coward play which opened in 1999) with Lauren Bacall and Rosemary Harris the second act was delayed because an older gentleman fell on the way back to his seat in the mezzanine. Part of the reason it took so long was the EMS people had difficulty getting a stretcher down the aisle without falling themselves!
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Post by: Matt H. on August 29, 2006, 08:02:30 AM: Good morning!

I thought we were going to have heavy rain today, but the sky couldn't be bluer or the sun hotter. The effects of Ernesto are supposed to hit us later in the week.
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Post by: Matt H. on August 29, 2006, 08:04:41 AM: The musings about record stores of old were certainly wonderfully nostalgic and brought back lots of memories.

Listening booths! Haven't thought about those in many decades, but I can remember the first time I ever went into one: I was trying to decide which version of "Volare" I wanted my father to buy for me. I eventually opted for the Dean Martin version, but I listened to all the versions that record store in Charlotte had.
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Post by: Matt H. on August 29, 2006, 08:05:31 AM: [move=down,scroll,6,transparent,100%]Page Two Dance!!![/move]
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Post by: Matt H. on August 29, 2006, 08:07:41 AM: I can remember when drug stores had bins for cast recordings. In fact, Columbia had a special cardboard bin that housed just their cast recordings with the mono versions on the left and the stereo versions ($1 more) on the right. There was also a black and white catalogue you could take free that listed all their cast recording catalogue with thumbnails of the covers. How times have changed!
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Post by: Matt H. on August 29, 2006, 08:13:23 AM: Looking forward to the season finale of RESCUE ME tonight. Will also get to DEADWOOD's finale and last night's VANISHED which I hope is as twisty and surprising as the pilot.

Still have MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY to finish as well. The mutiny had just begun when my surprise visitor showed up Sunday afternoon.
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Post by: Matt H. on August 29, 2006, 08:29:18 AM: When I was growing up, I didn't get a weekly allowance. I did my chores around the house, did what I was told, and I was pretty much bought anything I wanted (within reason) when I asked for it.

I did save money I'd get for birthdays, Christmas, etc., and I can remember the first LP I bought with my own money. After I saw the movie of THE MUSIC MAN, I wanted the soundtrack album. My mom happened to be in a record store and bought me THE MUSIC MAN, but she bought the Broadway recording. Much as I liked it (and it did have some of the same people as the movie and most of the same music as the film), I wanted the movie soundtrack, so I went to the store as soon as I could get someone to drive me and bought the soundtrack with my money. Both my parents thought I had wasted my money buying two of "the same thing," and no amount of explanation could convince them otherwise.

I remember once when I got home from college one weekend, my mother said she had been cleaning my bedroom, got to my LPs, and couldn't believe how many duplicates I had. Once again, I had to explain to her that the cast recording of WEST SIDE STORY or THE KING AND I or MY FAIR LADY or LI'L ABNER was very different from the respective soundtrack recording. She just shook her head.

I was a total alien to my family.
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Post by: Matt H. on August 29, 2006, 08:37:30 AM: Off to tend to a few things and then start on preparing lunch.

WBBL.
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Post by: Rodzinski on August 29, 2006, 08:48:24 AM: Record stores, now there's a way to get me talking...

My first record that I purchased was Journey's "Evolution," but I had been given the STAR WARS soundtrack, and had older siblings who had records, and my folks kept a cabinet of records in the basement. When I got my first stereo, I would just go grab records from downstairs and pretend I was running a radio station in my bedroom.

There was only one little record shop on the town square, but if you wanted the good stuff, there were two chain shops in the mall: Recordland and Camelot. Then, if I was really lucky, mom might take me beyond the mall to a store called Hegewisch Records.

Hegewisch was like walking into a different world. Covered with heavy metal posters, t-shirts, drug parephenalia for sale, but a selection of music I just couldn't get anywhere else in NW Indiana.

When we left Indiana for Atlanta, I refused to let my folks trash any of their old albums, and I have stewarded these records around wherever I lived as my own collection grew.
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Post by: Rodzinski on August 29, 2006, 08:53:59 AM: Atlanta was like another world, however. Great record stores abounded. There was a chain there called Turtle's that was everywhere. I mean probably 50 stores in the area. Then my favorite place out by the flea market called Eat More Records, which was finally gone, last time I went to Atlanta. It was run by an immense man, maybe 500 lbs, hence the name of the store. Then there were good stores in Atlanta proper Wax and Facts and Wuxtry, where I could get all kinds of the stuff I was into.

But I also found at that time, you could get used records on the cheap, and so, one could haunt flea markets and thrift shops and make some really great finds, as I do to this day.
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Post by: bk on August 29, 2006, 08:56:49 AM: I'm up, I'm up.

My first version of Volare was, I believe, the original by Dominico Modugno (have no idea if that's spelled correctly or not).

Must begin proofing right this very minute.

elmore, Steve Gurey used to be a poster here - then, as others have done, he left. He still reads, though, and does the trivia contests. I wish he'd post, too, and I've said so, but, you know, people do what people do.

And where is William F. Orr?
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Post by: Rodzinski on August 29, 2006, 08:57:35 AM: Since in NYC, I have seen so many stores close, big chains like HMV, smaller chains like Record Explosion, mom and pop shops like Holy Cow Records and Footlight... Various Coconuts and Sam Goodie's have disappeared.

A few decent spots remain, and then Virgin and Tower. Much as Amoeba may have gone downhill, that place seems like heaven when I am out west compared to stores here.
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on August 29, 2006, 09:05:03 AM: My most ethereal record shopping experience:

In the early 1980s, I was aware of, but wholly without access to, a slew of re-pressings of classic soundtrack albums that had long been deleted in American record label catalogs.

I had no idea exactly what was out there, but I had a good idea I wanted most of it.

As fate would have it -- and the luck of the Irish blood within me -- I was in the right place and right time -- and favored by the officer in charge of the school -- to be selected as the military journalism instructor to travel to an Air Force Base in Luton, UK, to teach a 3-day class on how to write stories for a base newspaper. The USAF was footing the bill. The trouble was that this base was divided between "general access" and "no access-highly restricted". Of course, those in the "highly restricted" areas NEVER saw themselves, or anything they did, reported on in the base paper. My job was to teach them to write stories about their jobs and their interests without compromising security.

Enough background...I tacked three days of vacation to the end of my trip and spent those days in London at the Tower Hotel. My goal was to re-visit this glorious city AND to find some of those re-pressed jewels of recorded film music.

I went through the UK version of the yellow pages, and found only addresses of shops. I struck out on my own to see if I'd get lucky. In the first day of looking, I found one item I wanted. In the second day, I widened my search and went far afield, asking questions of clerks who seemed unaware that anyone other than themselves sold records.

By the end of the 2nd day, I was deflated. I wanted nothing more than to return to my hotel and soak in a hot tub and sip a nice cup of tea. I managed to get within a block or two of Piccadilly Station when I became a bit disoriented. I stopped to check my map...as I turned it round to find where I was, I looked across a street to find its name. What I found instead was a storefront with a HUGE plate glass window.

And on that window, I discovered the words that confirmed my belief in angels or, at least, "the force."

There was "58 Dean Street" -- Specialists in Original Soundtracks, Cast Recordings and Celebrity Recordings.

I carefully crossed the street (lest fate laughingly smite me down) and entered the shop (56 minutes before its closing time). Bins and bins and bins of recordings.

And along one wall...SOUNDTRACKS...bins and bins of them.

As time was of the essence, I started at one end and worked my way toward the other. I pulled and stacked LPs as I went along. I was on a "budget", but I'd been generous in my preparations by buying sufficient American Express checks to cover me should I be in an emergency. After having winnowed through the lot, and keeping my eye on the ticking clock, I found myself with a pile of 30-plus LPs.

I sorted through them, made a few difficult decisions and got the lot down to 25 LPs (not purely CHEAP, either).

After the ringing up, I had to rush from the shop to a nearby exchange office to convert a few checks to pounds. I rushed back and still had time to chat a bit with the owners. I was very pleased with my findings, and those records are still cherished prizes in my collection.

Over the years, 58 Dean Street was a source for the unobtainable for me (pre-internet, of course).

They are no longer there, having relocated a number of years ago (rather sad, actually, like the ending of "84 Charing Cross Road"). They may not be at the new site any longer. I believe they might do business online, but I've forgotten the name.

There IS a P.S. I took that hot bath, and I sipped that hot cup of tea. I had a nice dinner. And I had a nice night's sleep. However, by the time I had called a taxi to take me to Gatwick, I'd decided I wanted two of the cast-offs from the day before. So...we stopped, I dashed, I grabbed and I paid...and made it to Gatwick in plenty of time.
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Post by: George on August 29, 2006, 09:14:23 AM: The one time I went to New York, I went to Colony (fool that I was). Everything was SO expensive, but I was in New York and I had a credit card! I spent over $500 in one shopping trip!! I bought a couple of CDs, the complete London concert cast recording of Nine with Jonathan Pryce (not yet available in the US) and the 1994 Swedish live cast recording of Chess in Concert , but I also got on vinyl the aforementioned London cast recording of 1776 and the original London cast recording of Children of Eden...with Ken Page! I was in heaven! I know I got more than those four recordings, but I can't remember what else I got there.

I eventually did get to Footlight, but I couldn't stay more than a few minutes. If I'd gone there first, I would definitely spent more money!
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Post by: Rodzinski on August 29, 2006, 09:21:22 AM: Don't know if this is still true, because the same site has Footlight still around, but here is what became of Ron's place:

Rare Discs, 18 Bloomsbury St, London WC1, England; ph: 0171-580-3516 • Has LPs and CDs, soundtracks, musicals, casts, personalities, and nostalgia. Formerly 58 Dean Street Records.
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Post by: MBarnum on August 29, 2006, 09:22:49 AM: I never had the pleasure of listening booths, as I think those went out of style by the time I came around to shopping at record stores.

Ashland had a wonderful record store called RARE EARTH. They eventually opened a second store in Medford. As a teenager I remember going to buy the first CULTURE CLUB album with my friend Steve Bartlett. We were quite shocked, yet intrigued, when we saw the album cover as we had expected to see a group of black singers and instead saw Boy George. Steve bought the album and I bought the lates Bonnie Tyler offering.

Later I recall buying some of those cool picture LPs where the LP was shaped oddly and/or had the album cover actually printed on the album...I think the first one I bought was a Kid Creole and the Coconuts...it was beautiful, but I don't know whatever happened to it. I also bought a WHAM U.K. album...this was just prior to their becoming popular in the U.S.
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Post by: Jane on August 29, 2006, 09:24:40 AM: Rare Earth is still here. I haven't checked out the music section since they downsized the store.

MBarnum was it only music way back when? Now they sell clothing & all sorts of fun things.
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Post by: MBarnum on August 29, 2006, 09:25:36 AM: Salem has two very large used CD stores which also have huge sections of LPs, a format which must still be popular here. Portland also has quite a few used cd stores that also carry LPs.

And as I mentioned to DR Rodzinski, you can find loads of vintage LPs at many of our local thrift shops...I believe ST Vincent DePaul has a 5 for a buck special going on right now, still!
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Post by: MBarnum on August 29, 2006, 09:26:30 AM: I myself do not miss LPs or cassatte tapes, and much prefer the CD format. However, I do appreciate the beauty of many of the old LP covers.
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Post by: PennyO on August 29, 2006, 09:27:48 AM: Ginny - thanks very much for the suggestion to have an exercise in tomorrow evening's workshop, wherein participants focus on a successful achievement, what personal resources they brought to the project and how they used their intellignece, skills, talent, etc. to create a successful outcome!!! I know it works - they'll love it.
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Post by: MBarnum on August 29, 2006, 09:29:50 AM: Quote from: Jane on August 29, 2006, 09:24:40 AM
Rare Earth is still here. I haven't checked out the music section since they downsized the store.

MBarnum was it only music way back when? Now they sell clothing & all sorts of fun things.

If I recall, RARE EARTH also sold candles, some hippy type clothing and t-shirts, and other odds and ends.
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on August 29, 2006, 09:31:46 AM: Quote from: Rodzinski on August 29, 2006, 08:53:59 AM
Atlanta was like another world, however.

When were you in Atlanta? Did you live there?

Where in Indiana did you live?
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on August 29, 2006, 09:34:28 AM: Quote from: Rodzinski on August 29, 2006, 09:21:22 AM
Don't know if this is still true, because the same site has Footlight still around, but here is what became of Ron's place:

Rare Discs, 18 Bloomsbury St, London WC1, England; ph: 0171-580-3516 • Has LPs and CDs, soundtracks, musicals, casts, personalities, and nostalgia. Formerly 58 Dean Street Records.

BINGO!

Thanks!
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Post by: PennyO on August 29, 2006, 09:37:33 AM: Quote from: JRand56 on August 29, 2006, 07:17:59 AM
DR PENNYO - yup those of use who spend a lot of time in front of people take it for granted that everyone can do it.

However the NUMBER ONE fear in the US (even more than death) is speaking in public.

That statistic was actually in my grant proposal to the Arts Commission!!! isn't it a strange one!
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Post by: FJL on August 29, 2006, 09:40:19 AM: I've told one of my favorite record-store stories before, but it's a favorite family memory (it gets told over and over at family get-togethers) so I'll repeat it, or actually cut-and-paste it from the last time I told it.

The first place I lived in after "officially" moving out of my parent's place in 1986 was a studio apartment that came fully furnished on 57th Street between 2nd and 3rd Avenues. I had worked part-time during college at 57th and 3rd, and had always told myself that I wanted to live in that area someday when I could afford it, and six years later, I could sort-of manage a studio in that area, so i grabbed it when I found it. The furnishings were quite simple but sweet, and the move in was oh so simple, since I was able to leave so much of my stuff at my parents' place in Brooklyn, and move in slowly.

My mother and father did everything they could to keep her 26-year-old baby from leaving home, but the situation was ideal. Fully, tastefully furnished, rent not that exorbitant for Manhattan, lovely neighborhood. Finally, with nothing else to say, my Mom (who has delicious comic timing, even when she tries to be serious) looked at me and said, starting off deadpan but hitting the word "Crazy" real hard: "Well, to be honest with you, I don't know if this is such a safe block to live on, I mean, with that CRAAAAZY Eddie store right downstairs." (Only my Mom could make CRAAAAZY Eddie sound like it must be some sort of nuthouse.)
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Post by: PennyO on August 29, 2006, 09:47:16 AM: I don't remember going into record stores as a kid. We didn't get much of an allowance, so I didn't go to much more than the local down-the-block candy store once a week. I do remember being with my mom in a drugstore or someplace like that, maybe I was eight or nine. I saw a bin of records and flipped through them and found one with a ballerina on the cover. My ballerina mom bought it for me - and her. It turned out to be excerpts from great ballets - Tchaikovsky, Delibes, "white ballet" stuff. I kept it for a long time - wonder if I still have it somewhere, or if it's in among my mom's old records? Funny - I wanted it for the picture on the cover and had no idea what music might be on it.
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Post by: Ginny on August 29, 2006, 10:00:44 AM: Quote from: PennyO on August 29, 2006, 09:27:48 AM
Ginny - thanks very much for the suggestion to have an exercise in tomorrow evening's workshop, wherein participants focus on a successful achievement, what personal resources they brought to the project and how they used their intellignece, skills, talent, etc. to create a successful outcome!!! I know it works - they'll love it.

DR PennyO - I think it was Cillaliz who suggested the exercise - I just found the quote which elaborated on it! At any rate, it's great that you're the kind of teacher who can be so responsive to students' needs and adapt your agenda accordingly. They'll love it!
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Post by: Ginny on August 29, 2006, 10:05:39 AM: More TOD - Ann Arbor, MI, late '60's/early '70's. Discount Records on the corner of State and Liberty and Liberty Music Store a couple blocks west. Of course, this was when Borders was a brother-owned used bookstore on State Street, too. The last time I visited that corner, in 2002 as the mom of a prospective student, I was saddened by the homogenization of A².
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Post by: PennyO on August 29, 2006, 10:32:31 AM: Quote from: Ginny on August 29, 2006, 10:00:44 AM
DR PennyO - I think it was Cillaliz who suggested the exercise - I just found the quote which elaborated on it! At any rate, it's great that you're the kind of teacher who can be so responsive to students' needs and adapt your agenda accordingly. They'll love it!

Thanks to Cillaliz! (all intelligent professional women look alike to me...) I have used this very exercise in my Art As Lifework seminars... I think I was doing "Factual" on my syllabus for this round of workshops - but it always comes down to the same challenge, and that is inspiring people to dare to be themselves and do their heart's work.

It does help if one was something of a Misfit, growing up - there is less of a temptation to try to be "good" or to please others or get approval. If you learn early on that you annoy people and just can't get it "right" perhaps you are more inclined to go off on your own and please the ONE person you have a chance of pleasing...
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Post by: Ben on August 29, 2006, 10:37:30 AM: Quote from: Ginny on August 29, 2006, 10:05:39 AM
More TOD - Ann Arbor, MI, late '60's/early '70's. Discount Records on the corner of State and Liberty and Liberty Music Store a couple blocks west. Of course, this was when Borders was a brother-owned used bookstore on State Street, too. The last time I visited that corner, in 2002 as the mom of a prospective student, I was saddened by the homogenization of A².

In 1999 while driving back to NY from a Thanksgiving trip to Minnesota we stayed with a friend who lived in Ann Arbor on Liberty St. While he was at work we went wandering and found the same record store. I was estactic because at that store I finally found the Chad Mitchell Trio album that would complete my collection on vinyl. When I found it I was so happy I stopped looking for anything else and we left the store with me walking on air!
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Post by: Charles Pogue on August 29, 2006, 10:49:17 AM: When I was young I don't remember buying records in any special place...usually in a department store or anyplace that sold them. There was a record shop in downtown Cincy, but I don't recall its name. And I used to buy used records at Ohio Book Store down on Main Street, Cincinnati. I always like to look in record bargain bins and found many a gem in those...like Heiroynmus Merkin and those Hundred and One String thingies.

I remember the University bookstore at the University of Kentucky at a great bargain bin.

But I think the first time my jaw dropped when I saw a record store was when a chain called PEACHES opened up in Dallas, Texas. I thought I'd died and gone to heaven.

There used to be a very good record shop right on Hollywood Boulevard amidst all the bookstores on the northside. It's name, alas, escapes me.

BK, I assume Canterbury is still in Pasadena, though they really haven't had records for years. And there is, of course, our beloved Counterpoint down on Franklin in Hollywood. If you ever get out here, we've got a place called Pops that you'd loved! Lots and lots of old records!
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Post by: bk on August 29, 2006, 11:19:57 AM: I'm definitely getting out there, Pogue. I NEED a vacation.

Back from the jog - three more stories to re-proof. Haven't heard from Grant, so don't know if we're on or not. I've found a handful of new corrections - couple more that I just hadn't caught the first time through (or that my two expert proofers had caught), and a couple of things that happened because of other fixes we made on Sunday.
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Post by: FJL on August 29, 2006, 11:21:20 AM: Someone just emailed me suggesting that if Last Starfighter is ever done with actual face-concealing masks for the aliens, we might want to try to get the enigmatic Guy Haines to make a cameo as one of those aliens.
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Post by: George on August 29, 2006, 11:37:49 AM: Quote from: FJL on August 29, 2006, 11:21:20 AM
Someone just emailed me suggesting that if Last Starfighter is ever done with actual face-concealing masks for the aliens, we might want to try to get the enigmatic Guy Haines to make a cameo as one of those aliens.

Sounds like a plan! I'd pay to see that. ;D
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Post by: S. Woody White on August 29, 2006, 11:52:52 AM: I don't think nostalgia should be waxed. I think it looks just great, hairy and everything!
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on August 29, 2006, 11:53:42 AM: Quote from: George on August 29, 2006, 11:37:49 AM
Sounds like a plan! I'd pay to see that. ;D

To see "what"...exactly? The elusive GH behind a mask?

:D
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on August 29, 2006, 12:04:54 PM: I have a head cold.

An irritating, sneeze-making, post-nasal drip, mucousy head cold.

And it's wearing me down rapidly.
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Post by: Maria on August 29, 2006, 12:39:38 PM: Quote from: Michael S on August 29, 2006, 03:50:38 AM
I remember Sam The Record Man. I loved their Boxing Day Sales

Yes! The lines would go around the corner sometimes. I'd save up my allowance and look forward for months to Sam's Boxing Day Sale. Back in ye olden days, it was quite unusual to have a store open the day after Christmas. In fact it was considered quite scandalous by some in what was then "Toronto the Good."
BTW - Sam "the Record Man" Sniderman was a graduate of my old and wonderful high school, Harbord Collegiate home of the Oola Boola club and the Brotherhood of the Lost Parabola -- as were Dr. Charles Best, the co-discoverer of Insulin, and for the Canadians out there: Shopsy and Wayne & Shuster (who met there).
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Post by: Maria on August 29, 2006, 12:40:49 PM: Cold away Vibes to DR RP!
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Post by: elmore3003 on August 29, 2006, 12:53:47 PM: Quote from: MBarnum on August 29, 2006, 09:22:49 AM
I never had the pleasure of listening booths, as I think those went out of style by the time I came around to shopping at record stores.

Weren't you arrested in a listening booth?
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Post by: elmore3003 on August 29, 2006, 01:07:44 PM: Yep! The bitch is back from the rain and the NYPL. I didn't get to the Post Office, so that will be a priority for tomorrow morning. This afternoon I need to think about the SINGING NUN finale.

There was a Peaches in Cincinnati, and I worked briefly for them; I cannot remember the reason I quit, but I do remember a frightening drive in a blizzard from Peaches to my home. I thought it was a wonderful store, and I remember one of their pieces of merchandising was a wooden crate which had their logo.

On my first New York trip, Dec. 26-Jan. 2, 1967, I discovered Sam Goody, which had two stores on West 49th Street, opposite each other. One was their discount store and the other was their bargain store. I believe most of the trip, when I wasn't at the theatre, was in either of those two stores or the Drama Book Shop.
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Post by: bk on August 29, 2006, 01:14:52 PM: I went over to Du-Par's to proof there whilst eating two poached eggs. I don't exactly know how you ruin poached eggs but today's were just awful and I'm now completely nauseous. I've got one story to go - still haven't heard from Mr. Geissman, which does not bode well for wrapping this up today.
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Post by: Michael on August 29, 2006, 01:17:36 PM: I never experienced a listening booth, but did preview cds with headphones at a listening station
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Post by: Matt H. on August 29, 2006, 01:35:40 PM: What a wonderful afternoon of viewing I've had. I started off with finishing MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY. Franchot Tone's delcaration before the committee near the climax of the film always leaves me in tears, and this time it was no different.
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Post by: Matt H. on August 29, 2006, 01:40:21 PM: And then, the highlight of the afternoon - THE YELLOW ROLLS ROYCE!

Praise be - TCM located a letterboxed print of the film, and I saw it in all its Panavision glory. The first two segments were pristine in look, but the Ingrid Bergman segment did have some print flaws. Not enough to spoil anything, of course, and I am so, so happy to finally be able to add this to my collection after searching for a decent copy for so many months. (The letterboxed laserdiscs that kept showing up on Ebay never went for less than $55 and often more.)

I had not seen this all the way through since seeing it at Radio City Music Hall in the 1960s. A grand reunion for me.
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Post by: George on August 29, 2006, 01:41:08 PM: Quote from: Ron Pulliam on August 29, 2006, 11:53:42 AM
To see "what"...exactly? The elusive GH behind a mask?

:D

You're right. Let me say, I'd pay to "experience" that...to be in the presence of the great and powerful Guy Haines! ;)
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Post by: Matt H. on August 29, 2006, 01:43:47 PM: I finished my afternoon viewing with last night's VANISHED.

Now, I like the show, and it certainly has held my interest for two weeks, but it's a serialized drama with dozens of characters, and the plot jumps backrwards and forwards in time. I can see I'm going to have a hard time keeping all these interactions straight in my mind, especially since I'll be deeply involved with other serialized dramas soon (LOST, GREY'S ANATOMY, to name just two).
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Post by: Matt H. on August 29, 2006, 01:46:43 PM: Tonight DEADWOOD's finale.
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Post by: FJL on August 29, 2006, 01:50:56 PM: FIVE GUYS NAMED HAINES - shouldn't that be the name of something?
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Post by: Ginny on August 29, 2006, 02:31:45 PM: All this nostalgia has made me wish for a toasted cinnamon roll at Drake's (no longer on North University in A², alas). It's where a group of my friends met late many Thursday afternoons before going to U of M student lab theater productions. Many of those shows featured a student actress named Christine Lahti.
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Post by: Ginny on August 29, 2006, 02:35:32 PM: ...or a toasted pecan roll...
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Post by: Charles Pogue on August 29, 2006, 02:35:43 PM: elmore, I too remember the Peaches logo crate, which were, of course, for record storage. You could build a wall of record crates with them.
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Post by: Matt H. on August 29, 2006, 02:38:27 PM: There's thunder rumbling, and I suspect a thunderstorm is on the way, so I'm hopping off-line now.

WBBL.
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Post by: DearReaderLaura on August 29, 2006, 03:06:11 PM: DR DakotaCelt: Are you feeling better today?
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Post by: bk on August 29, 2006, 03:23:40 PM: Proofing is finished, and I'll be going to Grant's at seven to hopefully put this sucker to bed.
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Post by: TCB on August 29, 2006, 03:39:43 PM: Quote from: Cillaliz on August 29, 2006, 07:05:02 AM
I loved Celebration. I played Potemkin in a college production.

Wasn't that a battleship?
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Post by: Tomovoz on August 29, 2006, 03:44:41 PM: Quote from: JRand56 on August 29, 2006, 06:55:07 AM
I bought records EVERYWHERE

My favorite record store was at about 52nd and Keystone in Indy....and it was called Rockin' Billy's. Full of new AND used 45's and LP's. I often went there on my lunch hour from the Indiana School for the Deaf. I bought a LOT of soundtrack and cast album LP's there....including RED GARTERS and WHITE CHRISTMAS....POLLY BERGEN in THE HELEN MORGAN STORY, a set of 45 rpm EP's.....some Annette.....

Don't know if it's still there....but it was FUN!

I love coincidences.

I was playing (not wearing) "Red Garters" twelve hours ago.
thats' my "dime and a dollar" reference for the day.
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Post by: Jennifer on August 29, 2006, 03:56:41 PM: I also watched VANISHED. I'm surprised but i really like it. I was putting off watching the first episode. But once i saw it I could not wait for last night's show.

It's not really a show that I would think I would enjoy. But since there is not much new on yet, I thought I would try it.

It's actually quite fascinating. And there is a lot going on.
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Post by: Tomovoz on August 29, 2006, 03:58:36 PM: Yes Domenico Modugno. He had the big version of "Volare" here before Dean Martin's cover.

Of course only some parts of my lies are true. Modugno's next international hit was "Ciao Ciao Bambina" in 1959 It was the hit of the San Remo song Festival and went on to be Italy's representative at the Eurovison Song Festival. Neither it nor Volare won but they are songs that are remembered. Much as "Love is Blue" did not do well in the contest either.
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on August 29, 2006, 04:24:57 PM: I went home at 12:30 p.m., PST.

I've been in bed since 1 p.m.

Now I'm up and have had to find some decongestants.

DAMN ALL POST-NASAL DRIPS!
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Post by: Cillaliz on August 29, 2006, 04:30:46 PM: Quote from: Ron Pulliam on August 29, 2006, 04:24:57 PM
I went home at 12:30 p.m., PST.

I've been in bed since 1 p.m.

Now I'm up and have had to find some decongestants.

DAMN ALL POST-NASAL DRIPS!

DAMN ALL NASAL DRIP POSTS!!!
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Post by: Cillaliz on August 29, 2006, 04:32:16 PM: Cool Beans!!! jhvw is up for Grey Gardens. I am most pleased about that news
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on August 29, 2006, 04:32:45 PM: As a youth, my "record haunt" was a store in a nearby (nearby the street where I lived) mall. The Wade Hampton Mall consisted of a large Winn-Dixie grocery store, a Walgreens Drugstore, and a variety of small shops on two levels. One of those shops was Carole's Records.

It was at Carole's that I found my first "store purchase at full price" LP...."To Kill A Mockingbird" for $3.79, plus tax...which, IIRC, made the purchase $3.91 (3 cents on each dollar...plus 2 cents on anything that was more than 3/4 of a dollar. Yes...the tax depended upon the percentage of a dollar you were paying.)

I paid for the LP on layaway. I did many transactions with Mr. Green of Carole's on layway in those early years. My weekly allowance did not cover the amount of an LP...and I needed money for movies, too. So, it was a dollar a week. Fortunately, must-have soundtrack LPs didn't proliferate. After TKAM, I got "The Robe" and "The Egyptian" on special order, followed by layaway payments.

Once I had a summer job, I could buy an LP outright. Mr. Green was always very, very good to me, and he would let me know when something new arrived that he only had a couple of copies of.
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on August 29, 2006, 04:36:31 PM: Quote from: Matt H. on August 29, 2006, 08:04:41 AM
Listening booths! Haven't thought about those in many decades, but I can remember the first time I ever went into one: I was trying to decide which version of "Volare" I wanted my father to buy for me. I eventually opted for the Dean Martin version, but I listened to all the versions that record store in Charlotte had.

Greenville SC had a couple of downtown record stores with listening booths. Of course, when you went into one with an LP, you were glared at constantly by one clerk or other.

I guess they had reason to glare....their prices were consistently higher than Carole's....TKAM cost $4.98 in those stores....and I sure as hell never bought anything from them. But I did listen to a few scores I was curious about. And then I'd buy them from Mr. Green.

:D
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on August 29, 2006, 04:38:34 PM: I believe the first non-soundtrack LP I ever purchased was "Jan and Dean's Greatest Hits". I had tons of 45's...but I never thought of buying the LPs of those artists. The 45 rpm was good enough for moi!
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on August 29, 2006, 04:41:56 PM: Oucha magoucha!

I think I just had a "Sound of Music" flashback!
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Post by: Rodzinski on August 29, 2006, 04:42:41 PM: Quote from: Ron Pulliam on August 29, 2006, 09:31:46 AM
When were you in Atlanta? Did you live there?

Where in Indiana did you live?

I was born in Gary, Indiana and grew up in nearby Crown Point, Indiana. When I was 14, my family relocated to a town outside of Atlanta (Norcross). I lived in Georgia from 1985-1994.
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on August 29, 2006, 04:43:55 PM: And now it's time

..to say goodbye...

...to all this company...

S-i-c

k-i-e

P-o-o

That's me!

:P
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Post by: Rodzinski on August 29, 2006, 04:44:32 PM: In fact, it brings to mind a big deal that is coming up on the morrow.

Tomorrow will mark 10 years in New York City for me.
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on August 29, 2006, 04:45:45 PM: Quote from: Rodzinski on August 29, 2006, 04:42:41 PM
I was born in Gary, Indiana and grew up in nearby Crown Point, Indiana. When I was 14, my family relocated to a town outside of Atlanta (Norcross). I lived in Georgia from 1985-1994.

Gary, Indiana....DON'T GET ME STARTED!

:D

During your time in Georgia, did you ever watch "Cinema Showcase" with Jim Whaley (who lived in Stone Mountain)?
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Post by: Rodzinski on August 29, 2006, 04:46:22 PM: I like Domenico's "Volare" best. Apparently the lyrics are more abstract. But that version spent a few weeks at number one here. Before Dino and Bobby Rydell had at it.
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Post by: Rodzinski on August 29, 2006, 04:49:08 PM: I was prepared to say I don't remember Jim Whaley, but I think now that I do know who you are talking about. A really good interviewer on the PBS station. He could get the big stars, and his eyes were each like two happy smiles. Hard to describe, but I remember Steve Martin telling him he had the most interesting eyes he'd ever seen. And then he died of a heart attack rather suddenly. I think this might be the same guy you are talking about.
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Post by: Ron Pulliam on August 29, 2006, 04:55:29 PM: Quote from: Rodzinski on August 29, 2006, 04:49:08 PM
I was prepared to say I don't remember Jim Whaley, but I think now that I do know who you are talking about. A really good interviewer on the PBS station. He could get the big stars, and his eyes were each like two happy smiles. Hard to describe, but I remember Steve Martin telling him he had the most interesting eyes he'd ever seen. And then he died of a heart attack rather suddenly. I think this might be the same guy you are talking about.

Exactly.

Jim was my best friend from 7th grade (circa 1961) until his death. His family moved to Stone Mountain in 1964.

Nice to know you do remember him. He did more than just his TV show in the greater Atlanta area. He was on a commission or two, reviewed film music and films for Creative Loafing, and the Atlanta Journal would, for a number of years, run his 10-best film scores of the year along with their film critics' 10-best lists for films.

We didn't get many chances to hook up and do things together...but the telphone and some rather outrageous phone bills witnessed our keeping in touch. Jim used to regale me with quite a bit of interesting stuff he could never print or discuss on the air. Rather like what we get treated to here, from time to time.

One of his most exciting experiences was being invited to attend a celebration at MGM with a group of journalists. They were treated like royalty, mingled with "stars" of old who turned up. I regret to say I don't recall the specifics of what it was about. It was a time when the MGM lot still stood as it had during its glory days. A documentary was shot of the occasion and released with the 4-DVD "That's Entertainment" boxed set. Jim is prominent in several shots of the group touring the lot. He sent me quite a few photos at the time of himself with various people.

Any mention of "MGM" would light him up like a Christmas tree and he could talk for hours and tell you all sorts of incredible things about the studio and its history and the people who made its films.
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Post by: Ben on August 29, 2006, 05:04:08 PM: You, Rodzinski, have been here 10 years and this past Monday, August 28, was the day 26 years ago that I arrived in New York
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Post by: DearReaderLaura on August 29, 2006, 05:05:24 PM: This morning I went for a walk, and this is what I saw:
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Post by: S. Woody White on August 29, 2006, 05:20:16 PM: Quote from: Cillaliz on Today at 07:05:02am
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I loved Celebration. I played Potemkin in a college production.

Quote from: TCB on August 29, 2006, 03:39:43 PM
Wasn't that a battleship?

One heckava costume! Had to be dry-cleaned only.
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Post by: Jane on August 29, 2006, 05:51:40 PM: I remember going with my older siblings to a record store on Pico Blvd. We would listen to the latest 45. If they liked it they purchased it. I never bought anything.

My favorite record store experiences are at Classical Harmony House in Michigan. I was thrilled when they opened the store & spent many wonderful hours listening to CD’s & deciding which to take home.
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Post by: Jane on August 29, 2006, 05:54:34 PM: Ron & Dakota, feel better vibes.

We finally switched our cell service from Sprint to T-Mobil and the phones work inside our house-a first!!!. Now I need to spend a few hours transferring all my information from one phone to the other. The good news is, the new phone has an information chip that will make my next transfer simple.

Loads of activity for us the next couple of days so I might be E & T.

‘night.
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Post by: DearReaderLaura on August 29, 2006, 06:01:46 PM: I hope you feel better soon, DR RonPulliam.
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Post by: Danise on August 29, 2006, 06:22:23 PM: Hi all! Just wanted to stop in to let you know that all is well. I think Ernesto is as the guy on the Weather Channel just said, "A dud".

We'll still be keeping an eye on him but I honestly don't think we have any worries.
:)
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Post by: Danise on August 29, 2006, 06:25:29 PM: Sheena (Queen of the Jungle), seems to have met her match in Kong.

"Kong" is a dog toy that you can stuff with goodies like Peanut Butter, loaf dog food, etc.

I filled Kong with PB and gave it to her before I left for work this morning and Lo and Behold when I returned home, nothing was tore up!
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Post by: Danise on August 29, 2006, 06:26:49 PM: Of course, Bear now has a Kong of his own as well. Can't give one without giving something to the other.
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Post by: Danise on August 29, 2006, 06:35:09 PM: Mom is still doing about the same. She has good days and bad days.
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Post by: Danise on August 29, 2006, 06:37:15 PM: I have to scoot.

Have a good evening all!
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Post by: Cillaliz on August 29, 2006, 06:41:02 PM: Danise, good to see you posting. Glad all is well.
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Post by: bk on August 29, 2006, 06:41:55 PM: I was born in a trunk in the Princess Theater.

I shall now be on my way to Mr. Grant Geissman's house, for what I hope will be a relatively painless and not-too-long evening.
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Post by: bk on August 29, 2006, 06:42:35 PM: I do believe we'll need a frenzy or three, although it's very obvious, thanks to the diligence of the repeatedly errant and truant that we're going to have our lowest month in two years.
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Post by: Cillaliz on August 29, 2006, 06:43:20 PM: Everyone has been telling me that the cats probably don't fight when I'm not around. Well, I figured they did and when I came home tonight I had proof in the form of a big scratch across Callie's nose. It broke the skin. Of course this led immediately to a pedicure for Boo - which she fought me all the way.

They are pretty quiet tonight. I imagine it was quite a fight. Glad I wasn't here to hear it.
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Post by: Michael on August 29, 2006, 06:43:40 PM: Quote from: Rodzinski on August 29, 2006, 04:42:41 PM
I was born in Gary, Indiana...

Gary, Indiana!
What a wonderful name,
Named for Elbert Gary of judiciary fame.
Gary, Indiana, as a Shakespeare would say,
Trips along softly on the tongue this way--
Gary, Indiana, Gary Indiana, Gary, Indiana,
Let me say it once again.
Gary, Indiana, Gary, Indiana, Gary, Indiana,
That's the town that "knew me when."
If you'd like to have a logical explanation
How I happened on this elegant syncopation,
I will say without a moment of hesitation
There is just one place
That can light my face.
Gary, Indiana,
Gary Indiana,
Not Louisiana, Paris, France, New York, or Rome, but--
Gary, Indiana,
Gary, Indiana,
Gary Indiana,
My home sweet home.
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Post by: Michael on August 29, 2006, 06:46:15 PM: So far just rain.

No wind.

No thunder and lightning.

Electricity is on.

Keeping my fingers cross that this will be it.
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Post by: Ginny on August 29, 2006, 06:47:57 PM: My evening has consisted of a fun breakfast dinner prepared by DH Richard - sausage, scrambled eggs, pancakes - and telephonic conversations with all three local members of the elder generation - my mother-in-law, my aunt, and my mother.

Sorry to have missed DR Danise when she was here, but I'm glad to see that Ernesto isn't being too bothersome to her and to DR Michael S.
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Post by: Ginny on August 29, 2006, 06:48:50 PM: Quote from: Michael S on August 29, 2006, 06:46:15 PM
So far just rain.

No wind.

No thunder and lightning.

Electricity is on.

Keeping my fingers cross that this will be it.

Hang in there, DR Michael S!
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Post by: Michael on August 29, 2006, 06:59:32 PM: I think I typed too soon.

The thunder and lightining have arrived. :)
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Post by: Rodzinski on August 29, 2006, 08:04:14 PM: Being born in Gary, I've certainly heard many renditions of that tune. And with Antonia being from San Jose, we get serenaded alot!
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Post by: Rodzinski on August 29, 2006, 08:04:43 PM: Best vibes to you Michael S!
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Post by: Rodzinski on August 29, 2006, 08:14:40 PM: RonP-
Thank you for those amazing facts. I was literally in the midst of typing a sentence that I did not know who you were talking about and then his face shot into my mind out of nowhere. The fact is, I might never have remembered him if not for you reminding me tonight, but I always enjoyed that show. He was a guy who was not like someone who just wanted to rub elbows with the stars; he really knew his stuff. That's why it always seemed he was given ample time with stars at these junkets where it is normally like, five questions and you're done.

His show must have been syndicated through more of the south, because my freshman year of school, I went to the U. of Mississippi, and I remember seeing his interviews on the PBS station there, and I enjoyed them as they seemed like a slice of home to me.
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Post by: Rodzinski on August 29, 2006, 08:18:50 PM: On some records I have that were my mom's, there are price stickers from a store in Hammond, Ind. called Millikan's, and their slogan is "Pick and Play Before You Pay!"
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Post by: Rodzinski on August 29, 2006, 08:20:52 PM: Trying to frenzy us forward. TPunk is flying to San Jose early in the morning for a week's respite before starting her new job.
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Post by: Matt H. on August 29, 2006, 08:21:26 PM: Yes, Jim Whaley's show was called CINEMA SHOWCASE (used Alfred Newman's AIRPORT theme as the theme song of the show). The South Carolina ETV network (their PBS chain of stations) carried it on Saturday afternoons, and I watched it weekly. I even used to audio record the show to play back when there was an interesting guest on or when he did his Oscar show with critics from the area giving their guesses for the top awards.

I wish I could have known him personally.
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Post by: Matt H. on August 29, 2006, 08:24:29 PM: I had a barrage of phone calls tonight which prevented me from seeing DEADWOOD in the hour I had scheduled to watch it. I barely had time to finish the WILD WILD WEST episode that I had started prior to watching DEADWOOD.

This WILD WILD WEST episode guest starred Nick Adams as a visiting prince and Dana Wynter as his wicked accomplice. This is one of the few shows in the series where star Robert Conrad didn't have a lengthy kissing scene with the female guest star.
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Post by: Matt H. on August 29, 2006, 08:25:26 PM: LAW & ORDER: CRIMINAL INTENT repeated one of its more frustrating episodes from this past season guest starring Whoopi Goldberg as a foster mother who has her charges do her bidding.
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Post by: Matt H. on August 29, 2006, 08:26:24 PM: RESCUE ME ended its season with culminations of the various guys' stories which had been running along all season, but naturally there had to be a cliffhanger, and this one involved a fire, ironic for a show about firemen.
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Post by: Matt H. on August 29, 2006, 08:27:12 PM: I did finally finish the Tab Hunter autobiography, and I started CENTER SQUARE, the biography of Paul Lynde.
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Post by: Rodzinski on August 29, 2006, 08:29:02 PM: Hey Ben, I guess late August is the best time to arrive in New York.

I actually never didn't know my arrival date exactly, and then the other night I remembered that I went to see a Mets-Giants game the weekend I arrived. Through the magic of the internet, I was able to pinpoint what day that game was and voila, Aug. 30 was when I arrived.
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Post by: FJL on August 29, 2006, 08:42:03 PM: A slightly busy work day today. That's all I have to say.
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Post by: Cillaliz on August 29, 2006, 08:54:40 PM: I don't have anything to say.
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Post by: Matt H. on August 29, 2006, 08:54:50 PM: Off to bed now.

Good night!
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Post by: MBarnum on August 29, 2006, 09:39:34 PM: TPunk, have a nice visit to California!!
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Post by: MBarnum on August 29, 2006, 09:41:03 PM: I am watching a 1957 western called LAST OF THE BADMEN starring George Montgomery, James Best, and Keith Larson.

I have to say, that James Best is one heck of an actor...I have been seeing him in a lot of different roles on TV and film and he can sure play some crazy parts!
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Post by: TPunk on August 29, 2006, 09:41:15 PM: I have to get up in 3 hours and 15 minutes to leave for my flight. I went to bed at about 9:30 thinking I could squeeze in 6 hours of sleep. But I just wasn't sleepy. And then I started to get anxious that I wasn't sleepy. And then I was just wide awake.

So I decided to catch up on today's posts since it is going to be a while until I have regular access to a computer. And then I think I am going to take a quick shower and then off to bed.
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Post by: TPunk on August 29, 2006, 09:41:51 PM: Happy early Labor Day weekend to everyone!
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Post by: PennyO on August 29, 2006, 09:54:27 PM: And to YOU, TPunk! Have a wonderful trip!
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Post by: PennyO on August 29, 2006, 09:55:16 PM: Go to sleep!
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Post by: Jrand73 on August 29, 2006, 10:15:32 PM: For me Mr James Best will always be the brains in the movie THE KILLER SHREWS.
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Post by: Jrand73 on August 29, 2006, 10:16:14 PM: Happy NYC anniversaries to DRs RODZINSKI and BEN.

Exciting! August is a great month for anniversaries & birthdays, no doubt.
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Post by: Jrand73 on August 29, 2006, 10:18:22 PM: Really enjoying reading ALL about the record shops and records.

KARMA is the name of the shop still here in town. But we also had a PEACHES with the wooden boxes.

I just watched CACTUS FLOWER - and one of its settings is Stereo Heaven "in the village" a record store where Goldie/Toni works. Lots of Capital albums....and all the underscoring in The Slipped Disk were instrumentals of Boyce/Hart tunes.....
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Post by: Jrand73 on August 29, 2006, 10:19:55 PM: Very funny movie.....

"So she was bragging about those damned sandwiches, was she? Next time she hands me one, I'm gonna hit her right across the mouth with it."
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Post by: MBarnum on August 29, 2006, 10:22:32 PM: LOL! Cactus Flower is my buddy Mark's favorite movie.

Yes, James Best is quite good in THE KILLER SHREWS...I wonder how he feels about that film? LOL! Personally I have always loved it.
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Post by: Jrand73 on August 29, 2006, 10:23:11 PM: So who decides what order the songs are put on the LP? I mean, when it's not a soundtrack or cast album?

Would it be the singer, the A/R guy, the producer....some albums flow....some jolt and bolt along....

Anybody have any favorite album flows?

I really love the Neil Diamond....Soulimon album....now I can't remember the name of it....it has Sweet Caroline on it.....

Neil Diamond! Damn....now I have to find it a play it!
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Post by: Jrand73 on August 29, 2006, 10:23:47 PM: Quote from: MBarnum on August 29, 2006, 10:22:32 PM
LOL! Cactus Flower is my buddy Mark's favorite movie.

Yes, James Best is quite good in THE KILLER SHREWS...I wonder how he feels about that film? LOL! Personally I have always loved it.

I think I might like it better if I could understand ONE WORD that that Swedish girl is saying. 8)
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Post by: MBarnum on August 29, 2006, 10:24:23 PM: And the poster is just too, too good!

Hmmm...I wonder how Ingrid Goude managed to get top billing?

(http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/MG/144010~The-Killer-Shrews-Posters.jpg)
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Post by: MBarnum on August 29, 2006, 10:25:42 PM: Quote from: JRand56 on August 29, 2006, 10:23:47 PM
I think I might like it better if I could understand ONE WORD that that Swedish girl is saying. 8)

JRAnd56, you and I were probably the only two people who ever even cared about what she said....
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Post by: Jrand73 on August 29, 2006, 10:25:49 PM: Rehearsal went pretty well tonight. Director's father was having surgery, so I was in charge....and I was CHARLES IN CHARGE....

It is now running like a clock....well more like a sundial....but everyone knows what he/she should be doing now. I also told them that we paid royalties on the whole play so they weren't saving us any money by not saying ALL the lines.
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Post by: Jrand73 on August 29, 2006, 10:26:27 PM: Quote from: MBarnum on August 29, 2006, 10:24:23 PM
And the poster is just too, too good!

Hmmm...I wonder how Ingrid Goude managed to get top billing?

(http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/MG/144010~The-Killer-Shrews-Posters.jpg)

Bet the producer could answer that. :P
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Post by: Jrand73 on August 29, 2006, 10:27:30 PM: Boy my face looks fat in my bio photo....must be the camera.
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Post by: Jrand73 on August 29, 2006, 10:29:02 PM: DR MBARNUM....the hotel where Allison and the director and Forrest Tucker stayed in San Juan was the Caribe Hilton which is featured in THE LAST WOMAN ON EARTH.

Funny to watch that movie and imagine that Miss Allison Hayes and Mr Bill Crispel probably had a few dinners there....and a couple of drinks....although Mary Jane did not DRINK....
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Post by: Jrand73 on August 29, 2006, 10:30:01 PM: Wednesday here.....Senior Day at Goodwill....30% off....I need to find some shoes for Mayella Euell. That girl is like Caldonia - she wears size 10!
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Post by: bk on August 29, 2006, 10:32:01 PM: Back from doing what are hopefully the final fixes - we checked the two final stories after doing the corrections, and they seemed to be fine. We printed out one full copy and I'll give that the once over all day tomorrow - then I have to write the dedication and the acknowledgment pages, and then we'll send the book off on Friday. Very exciting.

We also went out afterwards and I must say we had an absolute yummilicious dinner at Hamburger Hamlet. More about that in the notes.
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Post by: DearReaderLaura on August 29, 2006, 10:45:33 PM: TOD: I have no memories of record stores.
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Post by: George on August 29, 2006, 10:54:23 PM: Well...tomorrow afternoon, I'm meeting with my realtor and I'm going to make an actual, offical offer on a condominium! I'm hoping that what I offer is enough...it's, of course, less than what they're asking, but it hasn't sold in three months. Hopefully that'll be an incentive for them to accept the offer. :-\

And why are so darned many forms?? Why can't I just sign one form for everything and be done with it all?? ;)
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Post by: George on August 29, 2006, 10:56:11 PM: Talk about being nervous! All the questions...all the questions that I don't even know to ask!!
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Post by: George on August 29, 2006, 10:58:49 PM: And with that, I'm off to bed (much earlier than usual). I need to get to work real early and I'd like a fighting chance. ;)

Good night, all! ;D
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Post by: DakotaCelt on August 29, 2006, 11:48:02 PM: My vinyl experience comes from when I was a kid. We always had records about and I loved rebelling against my mother's fixation with Patsy Cline....

We did not really have record stores so to speak in our area until the mid 1980s in the part of ND where I grew up. You could usually get records at Alcoa or Kmart. The first album I bought was {oh god I am embarrassed about this} was Rick Springfield. However, my taste did improve and I got a number of movie soundtracks and browsed other artists.

I was more into tapes for they were more readily accessible in this area.
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Post by: DakotaCelt on August 29, 2006, 11:58:54 PM: One nice thing about the old records stores, you had a far better variety of stuff than you find in stores with CDs today.

Hmmm discovered folk, classical and world music through records... I even have a first pressing of the CHieftains, released in 1963 on the Claddagh label.
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Post by: DakotaCelt on August 30, 2006, 12:05:29 AM: Listening booths in this area are a rather new occurrence. Neither RecordShop in GrandForks nor Popplers had them. However, when Recordtown came into the area some years ago they did have stations for sampling CDs.
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Post by: DakotaCelt on August 30, 2006, 12:06:48 AM: I did get a curious album from a friend of mine who used to live in Ireland. It is a recording of Pope John Paul II surrounding his visit to Ireland in 1979. It even has the Chieftains on it.
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Post by: DakotaCelt on August 30, 2006, 12:08:33 AM: When I was in the Seattle area some years ago visiting rellies, their was a store called Galway Traders that had CDs and a freindly cat. It was a neat shop.

I love Puss n Books in Redmond.
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Post by: DakotaCelt on August 30, 2006, 12:09:33 AM: George, it is called ego and that is why you have to sign the forms!!
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Post by: DakotaCelt on August 30, 2006, 12:12:12 AM: THere is a store, and for the life of me I cannot remember the name of it, in St. Paul that used to sell used books and older LPs... It was a FUN store to browse and explore. My friend Katie and I spent three hours in there one day. You could even pop an LP on the turntable and have some interesting tunes floating through the air while you browsed. However, I draw the line at BARNEY!!!
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Post by: DakotaCelt on August 30, 2006, 12:12:59 AM: One of my first classical music LPs, was James Galway. I also was into Canadian Brass for a while.
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Post by: DakotaCelt on August 30, 2006, 12:16:33 AM: Quote from: JRand56 on August 29, 2006, 10:23:11 PM
So who decides what order the songs are put on the LP? I mean, when it's not a soundtrack or cast album?

Would it be the singer, the A/R guy, the producer....some albums flow....some jolt and bolt along....

Anybody have any favorite album flows?

I really love the Neil Diamond....Soulimon album....now I can't remember the name of it....it has Sweet Caroline on it.....

Neil Diamond! Damn....now I have to find it a play it!

I was a kid at the time... ABBA!!!

I also loved my James Galway music also. Wonderful flautist.
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Post by: DakotaCelt on August 30, 2006, 12:17:53 AM: Wonder if I could get this to page 7 before bk comes... < smile >
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Post by: DakotaCelt on August 30, 2006, 12:19:22 AM: Quote from: MBarnum on August 29, 2006, 10:24:23 PM
And the poster is just too, too good!

Hmmm...I wonder how Ingrid Goude managed to get top billing?

(http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/MG/144010~The-Killer-Shrews-Posters.jpg)

I am glad I went back and looked at this closer. I had just flipped through some of the posts and I misread it...
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Post by: DakotaCelt on August 30, 2006, 12:21:37 AM: I have a very eclectic music collection ranging from Classical to rock... Variety tends to lead to exploration. I like to try different genres. I do have to say, i have become hooked on Sondhiem and Andrew Lloyd Webber.
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Post by: DakotaCelt on August 30, 2006, 12:22:08 AM: VAnity
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Post by: DakotaCelt on August 30, 2006, 12:22:23 AM: SAnity....
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Post by: DakotaCelt on August 30, 2006, 12:23:06 AM: Please let this be page 7....