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Got my first player for Christmas! Got a bunch of my dad’s old Led Zeppelin and Allman brothers records as well as some great thrifts like Huey Lewis & The News, Thriller, Ricky Skaggs, and some others. It’s a sweet Crosley c62 with 80 watt speakers. First venture into vinyls. Any Vinyl enthusiasts in on the board?
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Dec 26, 2023, 1:38 AM
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Bought some for Christmas for my kids. They love them.
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Dec 26, 2023, 1:49 AM
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What albums?
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Dec 26, 2023, 5:37 AM
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Just a hint. While you are digging through the racks at stores that still have vinyl albums keep an eye out for one by Eivets Rednow. That's Stevie Wonder spelled backwards, he made it to see if his music would sell without his name. Fair tracks, but a good collector.
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Re: Record Player?
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Dec 26, 2023, 10:51 AM
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Taylor Swift for my daughters, Deathnote and Steve Miller Band and Stevie Nicks
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Dec 26, 2023, 3:17 AM
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Yes. That’s not a bad little setup for the price. If you find yourself getting a fair amount of use out of it I’d consider upgrading the stylus. This is a nice option for the turntable: https://www.lpgear.com/product/LPGATN3600DLXSE.html.
Make sure you adjust the counterweight properly too. A lot of folks tend to set it too high which is bad for the life of the stylus and the vinyl.
And the plural of vinyl is vinyl.
Enjoy.
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Dec 26, 2023, 8:31 PM
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I don’t know what I was doing honestly. I just spun it and now it plays. Idk if it’s too much weight or not. How would I know? Also some tracks on albums will randomly warp like into another key for a second and then go back. Stylus issue?
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Dec 27, 2023, 10:51 AM
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If your hearing pitch variation and the album isn’t visibly warped it’s most likely a belt drive turntable and the belt is slipping. They are generally very easy to replace.
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Re: Record Player?
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Dec 26, 2023, 7:52 AM
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If you want the old vinyls, 50's-60's check the thrift second hand stores. Of course you have collectors checking every day, but they miss a few because they get them in every day and they never know what they are going to get because it is all donated to them.us old coders who have a vinyl collection kick the bucket and the chillun and grans don't want them, so they get rid of them. I had a very large collection as well as the whole turn table setup and when me and the missus downsized I gave it all away. Everything.
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Dec 26, 2023, 8:49 AM
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Plural of vinyl is vinyl
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Dec 27, 2023, 9:09 PM
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A pair of vinyl is divinyl.
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Only record player I know of
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Is the off-season championships Scar wins in football every January through August.
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Dec 26, 2023, 8:15 AM
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I have a record player, and I also have a Seeburg jukebox filled with beach music. There’s nothing like the sound of a jukebox to bring back great memories.
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Dec 26, 2023, 8:23 AM
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I gave my old Sony phonograph to my daughter. She already had an amp and speakers. I also gave her all my old albums (with the exception of my Jimmy Buffett collection. Each of those are framed and on the walls of my pool room). I gave her everything from The 5th Dimension, Bill Cosby, the Beatles, Sonny and Cher, a ton of rock n roll, Fleetwood Mac, Carole King, etc, etc, etc.
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Have hundreds of vinyls
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Dec 26, 2023, 8:40 AM
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Don’t know what will happen to them when I’m in “another world” !
Most are by artist you guys wouldn’t like. None by acid rock stars but plenty by old folk singers and beach music artist
With a lot of jazz and classical artist.
When I was finishing my looong career as a Clemson student I was allowed by my “advisors” to take a summer school class in Classical music. By far the best class I had at Clemson. I still listen to the great classical artist today.,
I bet some of you even remember Cliff Ellis. He had some beach music vinyls I think.
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Re: Have hundreds of vinyls
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Dec 26, 2023, 8:48 AM
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The plural of vinyl is vinyl
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Re: Have hundreds of vinyls
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Dec 26, 2023, 10:34 AM
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Vinyl can be countable or unaccountable professorL Be sure of yourself when you make a post such as this,
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Re: Have hundreds of vinyls
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Dec 26, 2023, 11:29 AM
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Just because you can use Google doesn’t mean you know what you’re talking about. If you want to sound like a troglodyte to anyone in the trade feel free to use “vinyls”. Merriam nor Oxford acknowledge the word. “Vinyls” has only gained traction because of the Gen-Z kids new to collecting vinyl that also use the word “literally” to mean “not literally”.
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Get help***
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Dec 26, 2023, 4:58 PM
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Yeah, you and ForestTiger are more linguistically knowledgeable than the two major dictionaries. That’s the level of batshit stupidity that has to be dealt with on this board.
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I honestly can't believe you will whine about me at every chance and yet here
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Dec 26, 2023, 6:23 PM
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you are, angry and attacking a fellow Tiger about something non-Clemson related...How many different dictionaries would call that hypocritical?
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Dec 27, 2023, 9:19 AM
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I have been ignoring you quite easily. You felt the need to jump into an amphitheater post about turntables and vinyl and make an off-topic personal attack. I wasn’t attacking him - I corrected the misuse of the term “vinyls” and he doubled down with his “professor” comment. He’s wrong and misunderstands what “countable” and “uncountable” mean in this context. Unfortunately Google sent him to some dumbshit page called WordHippo that told he it can be “vinyls” when countable. That means the actual physical type of vinyl (of which there is more than one type) is countable as “I work in a factory that processes many kinds of vinyls”. The countable part of a vinyl record collection is the recording. If you have the need to stick the s at the end of a plural word then you should say vinyl records, vinyl albums, or vinyl LPs. The plural of any type of vinyl (as in the kind used to make records) is vinyl.
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Re: Have hundreds of vinyls
Dec 27, 2023, 5:19 PM
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Calling vinyl records simply “vinyl” is a gen y/z hipster thing. To us, they were always “records.”
I have some 78s, but can’t call them vinyl because they are acetate.
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Dec 27, 2023, 8:56 PM
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That works for me and I would never correct that usage though technically the “record” is the recording itself - hence the Grammys award Record of the Year to the best single of the year and Album of the Year to the best overall album (I’m not endorsing their selections). But never “vinyls”.
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Dec 26, 2023, 9:10 AM
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Took that class and loved it.
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Dec 26, 2023, 11:53 AM
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About the only A I made! Did you enjoy listening to the various vinyls of the great composers? I think the band director taught the class that I took.
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Dec 26, 2023, 8:41 AM
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Maybe one day we'll have 8-Track tapes.
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Dec 26, 2023, 8:50 AM
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I have my share of those too.
Unfortunately , unlike you young guys who live in another world. I have trouble turning on a computer.
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But what will the plural form be? 🙄
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Dec 26, 2023, 9:29 AM
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While I truly believe that the best era for most genres of music have passed ( although not all because there is some good music being made just not much country or rock or pop) the technology of today far surpasses the Record player and Vinyl.
But I do understand the collection and nostalgic parts of it.
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Dec 26, 2023, 11:33 AM
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For all practical purposes I agree but if you can afford mid 5 figures or up for your system there is nothing that can beat the best turntable systems. I’m not in this category but have gotten to listen to some and the difference is amazing. I’ve also listened to some six figure setups that sound like trash because the owner is just showing off and it’s not remotely setup right.
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Analog produces a warmer sound than digital usually offers so, enjoy your newfound hobby. For my part, I'm old enough to have had a decent collection and a pretty good turntable...I'm glad I can now just push a button to get to the next song or band rather than getting up to change a record.
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Same here! I have a collection of over 400 vinyl albums, most from about
Dec 26, 2023, 8:53 PM
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1965 to 1975, which really was the golden era of rock music. But, I guess I'm just lazy...it's too easy to go to Spotify! And I have found some pretty good newer stuff, because it's "related" to my old favorites from the 60's and 70's!
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Dec 26, 2023, 9:30 AM
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Got my first player for Christmas! Got a bunch of my dad’s old Led Zeppelin and Allman brothers records as well as some great thrifts like Huey Lewis & The News, Thriller, Ricky Skaggs, and some others. It’s a sweet Crosley c62 with 80 watt speakers. First venture into vinyls. Any Vinyl enthusiasts in on the board?
I got a new turntable a couple of years ago. I have a collection of vinyl dating back to the early 70’s and some of them needed some serious cleaning. I discovered a cleaning device called Spin Clean that works incredibly well. It washes the vinyl in a solution bath. The solution gets dirty and you change it. It will make your older vinyl sound new again.
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Dec 26, 2023, 10:23 PM
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Thumbs up for Spin Clean. I have one as well. But make sure you don’t put your clean vinyl back in a dirty paper sleeve. I put each clean record into a MoFi anti-static sleeve once cleaned. Keeps it clean. For record shopping, find a few good stores that specialize in used vinyl and shop around. Prices for the same album can vary quite a bit. Fun hobby!
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Dec 27, 2023, 8:59 PM
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Surprised you haven’t sprung for a VPI or an ultrasonic cleaner if you’re hardcore enough to put them in MoFi sleeves.
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I have a spin clean as well. I found it a bit cumbersome to use if doing more than a few at a time. Like anything vinyl related it’s pretty expensive for what it is. $80 for a plastic tub and some rollers and brushes. It does work though, and MUCH better than the cheap spray on stuff with a felt brush. Wet cleaning is definitely the way to go. I’ve since moved to a vacuum system, and now looking into an ultrasonic system.
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Before the old Percy family cabin was dismembered before being rebuilt, we recovered and saved the record collection my parents and grandparents had there. I remember as a kid being in charge of managing the 5-record stack on the drop-down turntable. They had been neglected for many years after my grandparents and father passed away even before I "saved" them from the cabin; After that, they sat in our basement for ten years or so.
Ultimately, I bought a USB turntable and started converting those records to MP3 format. I had also obtained a cleaning kit. I carefully cleaned each album and recorded it with the turntable (this is a 1:1 process, so a 40 minute album takes 40 minutes to record and of course I had to turn the album over halfway through). I then used software to remove clicks and pops, scratches, and more software that removed noise. Then I had to mark each song on each album, separate them out of the the one-long-track for each side, type in the name for each song, and enter the album title, artist, etc. And then, finally, I could convert to MP3.
It took just about forever (well, just over a year) but I managed to convert three milk crates full of LPs that were my parents favorites and then some. As I got near the end of third crate, I was dismayed to find that I still had two bankers boxes of albums in the basement!
So, this will be Percy Cabin Vinyl, Volume 1. Volume 2 may be a while in the making.
It was about 14GB of MP3s, and I bought a bunch of 16GB jump drives, filled them all and mailed them to mom, aunts, uncles, cousins...many called me to tell me they had not heard some of those songs for decades.
(A personalized version of this note was included on each thumb drive...)
Please audiophiles and vinyl enthusiasts, don't mock my MP3 conversions, understand the conditions these were originally played (like a Sears multi-stack turntable) and the albums had been in an cabin (without heat or cooling) for many many winters and summers in upstate New York.
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Dec 26, 2023, 10:59 PM
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Great story
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Artists/Albums included:
Al Hirt\Honey In The Horn
Al Martino\Daddy's Little Girl
Al Martino\Mary In The Morning
Al Martino\This Love for You
Andre Kostelanetz\Today's Golden Hits
Andre Kostelanetz\Wonderland by Moonlight
Andy Williams\Alone Again (Naturally)
Andy Williams\Andy and Company
Andy Williams\Call Me Irresponsible
Andy Williams\Honey
Andy Williams\In The Arms Of Love
Andy Williams\Love Story
Andy Williams\The Great Songs from My Fair Lady
Andy Williams\The Shadow Of Your Smile
Andy Williams\The Way We Were
Andy Williams\The Wonderful World of Andy Williams
Anne Murray\Somebody's Waiting
Arlo Guthrie\Alice's Restaurant
Barbara Mandrell\Love's Ups and Downs
Barbara Mandrell\The Best of Barbara Mandrell
Barbra Streisand\Greatest Hits
Barbra Streisand\Greatest Hits, Volume 2
Barbra Streisand\Guilty
Barbra Streisand\My Name Is Barbra, Two
Barbra Streisand\People
Barbra Streisand\Superman
Barbra Streisand\Wet
Baroque Bouquet\Plant Music
Barry Manilow\I
Barry Manilow\II
Barry Manilow\Tryin' To Get The Feeling
Beach Boys\Good Vibrations Best of The Beach Boys
Bert Kaempfert\The Happy Wonderland of Bert Maempfert
Billy Joel\Glass Houses
Billy Joel\Turnstiles
Billy Vaughn\True Grit
Billy Vaughn\Winter World of Love
Bobby Vinton\Greatest Hits
Bobby Vinton\Melodies Of Love
Bobby Vinton\Mr. Lonely
Bobby Vinton\Sings For Lonely Nights
Brothers Four\More Big Folk Hits
Burt Bacharach\Burt Bacharach
Camelot\Soundtrack
Carly Simon\The Best Of Carly Simon
Columbia Treasuries\A Very Good Year
Crystal Gayle\I've Cried The BLue Right Out Of My Eyes
David Rose\Holiday for Strings
Della Reese\And That Reminds Me
Della Reese\Della
Della Reese\Right Now
Della Reese\The Classic Della
Della Reese\Waltz With Me
Diana Ross\Greatest Hits
Dionne Warwick\Dionne
Donna Summer\Bad Girls
Eddy Arnold\Lonely Again
Eddy Arnold\My World
Eddy Arnold\Sometimes I'm Happy, Sometimes I'm Blue
Eddy Arnold\The Romantic World of Eddy Arnold
Englebert Humperdink\Last Of The Romantics
Enoch Light\Film Fame
Ferrante & Teicher\Feelings
Frank Sinatra\Sinatra's Sinatra
Frank Sinatra\Strangers In The Night
Frank Sinatra\That's Life
Frank Sinatra\The nearness of you
Frank Sinatra\The World We Knew
Frank Sinatra\Tommy Dorsey Featuring Frank Sinatra
Frank Sinatra\Watertown
Frankie Laine\Greatest Hits
Frankie Laine\I Wanted Someone To Love
Frankie Laine\I'll Take Care Of Your Cares
Frankie Laine\Memories Featuring
Frankie Laine\Memory Laine
Frankie Laine\That's My Desire
George Gershwin\Rhapsody in Blue
Glen Campbell\By the Time I Get to Phoenix
Glen Campbell\Limited Collector's Edition
Harry Belafonte\Belafonte Sings The Blues
Harry Belafonte\My Quiet Room
Harry Belafonte\Sings Five Early Songs
Harry Chapin\Verities & Balderdash
Helen O'Connell\A Beautiful Friendship
Henry Jerome\American Gold
Horst Jankowski\More Genius of Jankowski
Jack Jones\My Kind of Town
Jerry Vale\Be My Love
Jim Nabors\By Request
Jim Nabors\Jim Nabors Sings Love Me with All Your Heart
John Denver\Greatest Hits
John Denver\Rocky Mountain High
John Fitzgerald Kennedy\A Memorial Album
Johnny Cash\The Greatness of Johnny Cash
Johnny Mathis\Best of...1975-1980
Johnny Mathis\Feelings
Johnny Mathis\Greatest Hits
Johnny Mathis\Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me
Johnny Mathis\I Only Have Eyes For You
Johnny Mathis\Johnny Mathis
Johnny Mathis\Love Is Everything
Johnny Mathis\Love Story
Johnny Mathis\Magic Moments With Johnny Mathis and Ray Conniff (Record 3)
Johnny Mathis\Mathis Is
Johnny Mathis\Mathis Magic
Johnny Mathis\Me and Mrs. Jones
Johnny Mathis\More Greatest Hits
Johnny Mathis\Portrait of Johnny
Johnny Mathis\Sings
Johnny Mathis\Song Sung Blue
Johnny Mathis\Tender Is The Night
Johnny Mathis\Tenderly
Johnny Mathis\That's What Friends Are For
Johnny Mathis\The Best Days Of My Life
Johnny Mathis\This Guy's In Love With You
Johnny Mathis\Those Were The Days
Johnny Mathis\Up, Up And Away
Johnny Mathis\What'll I Do
Johnny Mathis\When Will I See You Again
Judy Garland\I Feel A Song Coming On
Julie London\All Through The Night
Julie London\By Myself
Lettermen\All-Time Greatest Hits
Lou Rawls\When You Hear Lou, You've Heard It All
Mantovani\Songs To Remember
Mantovani\The Greatest Gift Is Love
Mantovani\The Wonderful World of Melody
Mantovani\The World of Mantovani
Melissa Manchester\Don't Cry Out Loud
Melissa Manchester\Melissa
Nat King Cole\Looking Back
Nat King Cole\LOVE
Nat King Cole\Ramblin' Rose
Natalie Cole\Natalie
Neil Diamond\Beautiful Noise
Neil Diamond\Hot August Night
Neil Diamond\September Morn
Neil Diamond\The Jazz Singer
Nellie Lutcher\Delightfully Yours
Partridge Family\The Partridge Family Album
Paul Anka\Times of Your Life
Paul Simon\Greatest Hits, Etc
Perry Como\By Special Request
Ray Conniff\After the Lovin'
Ray Conniff\I Will Survive
Ray Conniff\Send In The Clowns
Ray Conniff\TV Themes
Ray Conniff\World of Favorites
Ray Conniff\World of Hits
Ray Conniff and the Singers\Somewhere My Love
Robert Goulet\Begin To Love
Robert Goulet\Summer Sounds
Roger Miller\Words and Music by Roger Miller
Roger Williams\Golden Hits
Romantic Strings\Romantic Strings Play Dancing in the Dark
Sergio Franchi\From Sergio-with love
Sergio Franchi\The Exciting Voice of Sergio Franchi
Sergio Franchi\There Goes My Heart
Sergio Franchi\Wine & Song
Simon And Garfunkel\Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme
Soundtrack\The Sound of Music
Steve Lawrence\Swing Softly With Me
Ted Heath Orchestra\Those Were The Days
The 4 Seasons\The Barrons Sing
The Longines Symphonette Society\Sentimental Memories
The Longines Symphonette Society\The Golden Twenties
The Midnight Voices\Is That All There Is
The Realistics\The Year In Music's Greatest Hits
Tom Jones\Say You'll Stay Until Tomorrow
Tommy Dorsey\Say You'll Stay Until Tomorrow
Tommy Dorsey\The Fabulous Dorseys In Hi-Fi Volume I
Tony Bennett\I Left My Heart In San Francisco
Tony Bennett\I Wanna Be Around
Tony Bennett\More Tony's Greatest Hits
Tony Martin\Mr. Song Man
Tony Vilardo and The New Wave\Tony Vilardo and The New Wave
Various Artists\Heart to Heart
Various Artists\Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Various Artists\Million Dollar Memories
Various Artists\Shindig With The Stars
Various Artists\Million Dollar Memories\Side 1 1941-1943 Riding High With the Big Bands
Various Artists\Million Dollar Memories\Side 10 1954 Hey There
Various Artists\Million Dollar Memories\Side 11 1955 Moments to Remember
Various Artists\Million Dollar Memories\Side 12 1956 Whatever Will Be, Will Be
Various Artists\Million Dollar Memories\Side 13 1957 It's Not For Me To Say
Various Artists\Million Dollar Memories\Side 14 1958 A Certain Smile
Various Artists\Million Dollar Memories\Side 15 1959 Hawaiin Wedding Song
Various Artists\Million Dollar Memories\Side 16 1960-1964 Happy Days Are Here Again
Various Artists\Million Dollar Memories\Side 17 1965-1968 Love Me With All Your Heart
Various Artists\Million Dollar Memories\Side 18 1969-1971 Today's Hits, Tomorrow's Memories
Various Artists\Million Dollar Memories\Side 2 1944 There Goes That Song Again
Various Artists\Million Dollar Memories\Side 3 1945 We'll Be Together Again
Various Artists\Million Dollar Memories\Side 4 1946-1947 Love Somebody
Various Artists\Million Dollar Memories\Side 5 1948 Tennessee Waltz
Various Artists\Million Dollar Memories\Side 6 1949-1950 Some Enchanted Evening
Various Artists\Million Dollar Memories\Side 7 1951 Because of You
Various Artists\Million Dollar Memories\Side 8 1952 High Noon
Various Artists\Million Dollar Memories\Side 9 1953 Rags to Riches
Vic Damone\Linger Awhile
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Re: Record Player?
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Dec 26, 2023, 9:57 AM
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I just got a decent portable turn table this year and added some reasonably priced powered speakers. Makes for a nice little unit that takes up little space.
Helpful Hint - while used record stores will have quite a selection and quite a price… Your local Goodwill, or other similar shops are gold mines for jazz, big band, and the occasional comedy album. And on rare occasions, you may run across an excellent rock ‘n’ roll record that someone didn’t Know what they had.
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Dec 26, 2023, 10:08 AM
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Sweet. Find the original Woodstock album and turn it up.
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Dec 26, 2023, 5:36 PM
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If Zed Zepelin II was one of the LZ albums you got from your dad, check the dead wax matrix for “RL” or “RL SS”. That’s the definitive pressing of LZII and can be worth quite a bit.
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Dec 26, 2023, 8:35 PM
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How do I know? This would be an original that he purchased right when it came out
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Dec 26, 2023, 9:19 PM
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You look between the last inner grooves and the labels on each side. This is called the “dead wax”. There will be etched numbers and letters. This shows what the mastering plates are. If you see an “RL” or “RL SS” they were mastered by Bob (Robert) Ludwig. These were the original masters in the US, but were quickly remastered because they were very aggressive or “hot” and would cause the stylus on cheap record players skip. Over the past decade or so everyone started claiming they are far superior to any other pressing, so the can go for hundreds if if not $1000+ for a great copy.
The etching would look something like this:
https://www.discogs.com/release/4699428-Led-Zeppelin-Led-Zeppelin-II/image/SW1hZ2U6MTgzNzQ4NDA=
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Re: Record Player?
Dec 27, 2023, 9:01 PM
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Found a stone mint copy in an estate sale lot.
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Dec 27, 2023, 9:37 AM
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That’s a bummer. I did the same thing with my dad’s old records. I was logging them to Discogs using the matrix to see what I had. Most records the average value were $5-15. Then I got to LZ II, and it had an average value of $150. I thought I entered the info wrong. Then I started doing some research and found out what I had. The $150 value was for mediocre condition. Mine is very good condition, both record and sleeve. Based on the last year in sales I’d guess it’s worth about $350-$500.
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Dec 27, 2023, 4:47 PM
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Some a hole keeps thumbs downing all of my posts because they want my pulse at zero
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Absolutely. And only analog recordings
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Dec 26, 2023, 10:04 PM
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Re-masters generally suck. Allman Brothers at Fillmore original analog vinyls are the best live recording I’ve ever heard. The remasters are a sterile replica. Find them and enjoy.
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Dec 26, 2023, 10:10 PM
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Yes love vinyl. I had my first in 1964, you??
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Dec 27, 2023, 10:03 AM
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I've had a Rega turntable for 10+ years and had not used it that much prior to a very recent purchase of a Spin Clean Record Cleaner. My vinyl collection started back in the 70's so my LP's are well worn. At first, prior to purchasing the cleaner, I was skeptical about the benefits. However, it has clearly increased the enjoyment of my collection as I can hear a noticeable improvement in the detail and clarity of my LP's. Not all users of a record cleaning system may hear the improvement (dependent on quality of up stream components.) But it is worth giving one a try for a reasonable investment. Happy listening!
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Dec 27, 2023, 10:17 AM
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Sounds awesome. It's great fun unearthing some old vinyl and taking a spin down memory lane.
As a quick and easy vinyl cleaning tip, mix 1 part isopropyl alcohol to 9 parts water in a small spray bottle for a cleaning solution and use a lint free cloth to clean the record grooves. Spray onto the cloth and not the vinyl directly to prevent getting it on the label. Makes a big difference in sound quality and does a great job of refreshing some older records that had got a lot of prior play back in the day.
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Re: Record Player?
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Dec 27, 2023, 4:43 PM
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Okay which troll is downvoting a good hearted post?
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