Slowly but surely with the help of friends and odd producers, many of the things I want on CD have come my way. I still have some records in the cabinet that will never make it to commercial CD so it's just a matter of finding the time to transfer them. As BK (and others like Tom who have done it) know, it's a time consuming process, not terribly difficult, but not as easy as copying a CD since if you want separate tracks, depending on the age and sophistication of your machine you must pause after each track. Some newer machines will make separate tracks but it's dependent on sound or lack thereof and it doesn't always work. If you have a 2 LP record and you need to pause after each track it tacks a couple of hours to make the CD. Anyway, that's neither here nor there. I have the 1985 Cradle Will Rock from the Acting Company but I would love to have the 1964 recording (with Jerry Orbach) on CD. I have the record but it's not in great shape. That also makes transferring a problem if you're doing it to a dedicated machine, you don't have many options to clean up the sound. If you're doing it into your computer you can get software to clean up pops and hisses and the like but the dedicated machine basically just transfers the tracks to a CD.
I would also like to find a copy of Sarah Vaughn Live in Japan. It's a 1973 concert she did in Tokyo. I have it on tape. It was released in the early years of CDs but it's been out of print for years and I've never run across it in all my voyages to used CD emporiums.
