List Heat Lps you found in that grandma crate
kala
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I'm talkin bout a whole crate of lawrence welk and mitch miller and boston pops and al hirt then all of the sudden at the end of the crate you find one totally out of context joint/grail/rarerroy meriweather's nubian lady in a child's hospital charity shopand the anna soundtrack by serge gainsbourg in a thrift on main st in a small town in upstate ny
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this cat i used to work with gave me a box of his crap records one day and going through those i came up on the outlaw blues band "breaking in," in there with some random crap.
Anyway, at the end of the day we head down to his garage to grab the speakers and he has this crate of records sitting there. He's like 'I'm gonna chuck that out, so anything in there you want, just take.' We flick through and find the usual mainstream disco stuff like Chaka Khan, Car wash soundtrack, and a few other good commons... and then nestled in between some 80s cheese is a copy of the self-titled Beginning of the End LP. I couldn't fucking believe it.
There was this store in Pasadena that specializes in classical and dixieland so much of the record collections that they bought would contain these, every once in a while amongs the Mozart & Bach's head colections I'd find things like Eugene McDaniels "Outlaw" Sylvers II, and Dorothy Ashby. always surprised me.
You ever get that feeling where you find a record you wanted that had a going rate more than what you were able to spend and you come across it for a quarter? thats exactly what this place was all about.
The spot is still around and I know that here in LA
but they don't seem to buy vinyl anymore and with that those days have come to an end
nestled in between two Jim Nabors records.
I couldn't believe my eyes.
So the usual suspects in that box and a couple Aretha's so i'm like "Well, i can give you like $10 for everything but (as i'm thinking even that's too much!) there's really not much i can use."
"We were just gonna drop 'em off at Goodwill anyways, so thats fine"
After going through box #2 and 3, lo-and-behold, the Aposento Alto LP - in damn fine shape. And it literally almost walked out the door and i never would've knew.
I also relieved an old lady of her 78 collection about 7 years ago, she was a friend of a friend & I went around on the offchance of finding good 78s when I was actively collecting them. I asked her what sort of music she was into & it quickly became apparent that I would be checking tons of wack 30s/40s/50s country 78s. I looked through them & right at one end of the shelf was a bunch of about 25 really clean rock & roll 78s, Elvis, Frankie Lymon, Ricky Nelson, Fats Domino etc. I bought everything & ended up dumping it all except for the cool rock & roll & a few Jimmie Rodgers 78s.
There are often instances of "where the hell did that come from" when checking old people's collection. Like another time I looked through an entire 78 collection that was only easy listening & buried amongst it was one awesome Dizzy Gillespie 78, that I couldn't buy because I refused to buy everything just for that one record.
best cover EVAR!
Well...one of the best.
that was probably my best find in the grandma/easy listening section.