Teasing the Korean

You mean Donovan's "Hurdy Gurdy Man?"

The Sound of Feeling - Spleen (Limelight, overpriced 180G hipster reissue)

The twins were in a Star Trek episode! When they perfect time travel, just visit Florida in the 1990s, and you can find both albums for a dollar each!

It's a crazy album, especially the Sound of Feeling side. Stay tuned for their masterpiece follow-up, Spleen.

Leonard Feather presents The Sound of Feeling, with Oliver Nelson (Verve, mono promo) Side 1 is The Sound of Feeling. Side 2 is Oliver Nelson. It's kind of like a Crown LP in that regard.

Thank you! I should have thought of that!

Baltimore and Ohio make turntables? Since you're in Santa Fe, why not a ATSF turntable? Seriously, sorry about your turntable. That must have been a linear tracking model, correct?

Anyone know which John Williams is on piano here? https://www.discogs.com/release/7146129-Bob-Brookmeyer-Featuring-Red-Mitchell-John-Williams-Bob-Brookmeyer-Featuring-John-Williams-Red-Mitch

The coda of "Roll on the Left Side" is a riot.

Herbie Hancock - Warner Bros. Years, 2-CD set.

So it sounds like your experience may have been similar to mine during the 1990s. I was buying CDs at that time also, but I was going absolutely bonkers over the availability of all the cheap LPs during that decade. I felt like a 5-year-old being dropped off at the candy store with a twenty dollar bill.

Alain Delon: Morricone - The Sicilian Clan (CAM) Eric Demarsan - Le Cercle Rouge (Universal France)

Thanks for the replies. It is interesting that my vinyl buying substantially increased when others were switching to CD. I guess that's why those LPs were dirt cheap at the time!

In my lifetime, the vinyl LP has gone from being the industry standard music medium, to a relic of a bygone era, to an overpriced hipster display item. I would be interested in hearing how and when folks with very large LP collections managed to accumulate them. Was is it a slow and steady process over many decades, or were there significant stretches of feast and famine along the way? I began buying LPs as a little kid. By the late 1980s, when I was in my mid-20s, I had hundreds of albums. But the real spike in buying for me occurred from the early 1990s to maybe around 2005 or 2010. In the cities where I lived or visited during these 15 or 20 years, cheap LPs were everywhere, including very clean copies of desirable titles. While I'd been buying jazz LPs since I was in junior high, I lugged home a ton of jazz albums during this period. I have not bought much vinyl in about 10 years. I no longer have the patience to look for it, and the second-hand market has all but dried up around these parts. And contemporary vinyl IMO is not worth it. It is overpriced, and there are too many issues with warpage, off-center pressings, inner-groove distortion, and sibilance. Not sure how I'm defining a "large" collection - I am thinking at least 1,000, but maybe more like 2,500 or more. Whichever, I don't want to leave anyone out of the discussion. So what was your experience like?

My copy is undated, and I can't find a date on Discogs either. The fact that it is mono may provide a clue. Also, I have not looked into other releases on this label. That may help also.

Glad you found a copy!

The kid's got a point.

I sense about 10,000 blues tunes coming up...

The one with the golf clubs and the amazing cardigan? I've got that one too.

Interesting mix of tunes on that album. I knew about half of them. The song "Welcome to the Club" should have been better known. Do you know other versions of it? It would have been great for Dino.

Yes, minus Basie.

Nat "King" Cole - Welcome to the Club (Capitol, stereo) with Dave Cavanaugh This is maybe the worst stereo I've heard on a Capitol vocal LP from this period. Nat is in one speaker with a few instruments. Most of the band is in the other. Guessing this sounds a lot better in mono.

Various - 2001/Aniara (Columbia) Featuring Moog interludes by Morton Subotnik. Aniara is an instrumental suite from Blomdahl's space opera, using orchestra plus electronics.

Martin Denny - Exotic Moog (Liberty) From his ghost period, although he allegedly had some input into this one.

Les Baxter - Moog Rock (GNP Crescendo) Featuring Paul Beaver on the Moog. Classical compositions played by a quintet of Moog, novachord, drums, Fender bass, and Latin percussion.