More fodder for the rummage sale at Madisonville's First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ):
Hey Leroy, Jimmy Castor
20/20, Twenty No. 1 Hits from Twenty Years at Motown
25 Rock Revival Greats
Holiday in Italy, Antonio and his Italianos
Ronco Presents Love Rock Original Hits by Original Stars
My American Heritage, Clara Barton
Back in Black, AC/DC
A Little Night Music, Freddie Hubbard
Brave Toreros, Fontana Orchestra
Joan of Arc Presents MGM's Music To Your Taste Volume No. 1
Musical Comedy Favorites, Andre Kostelanetz and His Orchestra
The Jazz Makers
Greatest Hits, The 5th Dimenson
Greatest Hits, Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass
Greatest Hits, Miles Davis
Country Brass, The Longines Symphonette Society
Hooligans, The Who
Especially for You, Don Williams
All the Great Hits, Diana Ross
Kinks-Size, The Kinks
Who's Last, The Who
Flashdance, soundtrack
Bye Bye Birdie soundtrack
Livin' On, Up With People
North Carolina State University at Raleigh presents Bunyan Webb Musician-in-Residence
I Was Made to Love Her, Stevie Wonder
Farewell to Studio Nine
Here Comes the Bird, Kenny Solms & Gail Parent
Greatest Hits, Eagles
Easy Action, Alice Cooper
Demons & Wizards, Uriah Heep
Kissing to Be Clever, Culture Club
Colour By Numbers, Culture Club
Uriah Heep Live January 1973
Saints & Sinners, Johnny Winter
Brain Salad Surgery, Emerson Lake & Palmer
All American Boy, Rick Derringer
A Nice Pair, Pink Floyd
Batman soundtrack
Greatest Hits, The Association
Live Wire/Blues Power, Albert King
Through the Past, Darkly (Big Hits Vol. 2), Rolling Stones
Diana Ross & the Supremes Sing and Perform "Funny Girl"
I'm a Believer, Jean Shepard
You Better Go Now! Jeri Southern
Greatest Hits, Al Green
The Best of Carly Simon
Quiet Music Vol. 1, Columbia Salon Orchestra
The Texas Campfire Tapes, Michelle Shocked
Never On Sunday soundtrack
Discotheque Au Go Go! Johnny Rivers
A Message to Garcia, Elbert Hubbard
Classic Crystal, Crystal Gayle
Lookin' for Love, Johnny Lee
I can't recommend keeping any of these.
ReplyDeleteThese are the first two Who records I've ever ditched. Along about 1991 or so, I had secured myself a copy of every Who record ever released (not counting those weird collections released by companies in Japan or what-not). Also, you had to allow me to count for the first four records the two two-record rereleases somebody did in The Kids Are Alright era.
ReplyDeleteIt's ridiculous how many tedious and expensive pursuits like this one that I've launched and then abandoned.
One of the albums that I did not put into the sale was Singing Praises Unto the Lord, by The Kinsmen Quartet. From the liner notes by Ray Harris, president of Crusade Records on Flora, Ill.: "The KINSMEN QUARTET of Bowling Green, Kentucky was organized in the Spring of 1962. This name was chosen after considering that all the members are, in fact, kin through the mutual bond of Christ, the Lord. Three of the fellows are brothers and the sons of Rev. Irving Jaggers, pastor of the State Street General Baptist Church. The Kinsmen have a weekly TV program from WLTV, Channel 13 each Monday at 8:00 P.M. Besides their TV work, they ahve radio broadcasts on WLBJ and WBGN each Sunday at 8:30 A.M. Their ultimate goal as they travel is: 'to lead fellow man to God through the singing and preaching of the Word'. To make the long miles seem shorter the quartet travels in a bus that has individual sleeping quarters, wall to wall carpet and is air conditioned."
ReplyDeleteFor the record, I had figured out the meaning behind the name "The Kinsmen Quartet" before it was explained in the liner notes.
ReplyDeleteI loved reading about the bus.
ReplyDeleteYou're getting rid of your Who albums? I'm stunned. To me, you are The Who.
ReplyDeleteI'd keep that Al Green, too.
I'm getting ready to weed through my stuff, just don't want to move everything across the country.
ReplyDeleteI do enjoy most of the Al Green songs on his greatest-hits collection, but pretty much all of them I have on their original-release records. Similar scenarios also informed my letting go of these 5th Dimenson and Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass greatest-hits compliations, too. In each of these three cases, I feel like I just reworked the contracts of some proven veteran performers, who will continue to play key roles in the operation.
ReplyDeleteGetting rid of The Association's Greatest Hits was a pure, no-brainer efficiency move; it turned out I had two copies.
The Miles Davis cut, however, is one that my opponents might campaign against when I'm up for re-election. This was a clear acknowledgement that a service wasn't delivering value, on balance, against its investment. I have other Miles Davis records, but (unlike the Al Green scenario above) they don't nearly cover the scope of songs included in the greatest-hits collection that got the axe yesterday. What I realized was that I just didn't find MDGH that appealing and hardly ever listened to it; maybe it has something to do with that jazz is perhaps more given to complete-album, themed presentations than song-by-song compilation. I'm not certain. Ultimately, the reason doesn't matter. Whatever, it wasn't working, and we decided to move forward in another direction. If I have to pay a political price for that choice downstream, so be it. That simply can't be my concern at the moment.