Teasing the Korean

Also, I cannot even begin to tell you how many times I've seen this collection over the years at thrift stores, flea markets, and yard sales. It was obviously a big seller!

Now if only I could find the 70s Louis Prima ad for the Greatest Italian Hits collection!

I'm sure you recognize this lovely melody "A Stranger in Paradise." But did you know that the original theme is from the Polovtsian Dance #2 by Borodin?

I played the 45 of "Go All the Way" non-stop when it was a hit.

Ripping off, or "repurposing," the same composer twice for your two biggest hits causes me to raise an eyebrow in a Spock-like fashion. YMMV.

And his other hit ripped off another Rachmaninoff piece.

Thanks! So I may invest in a couple of these when I have to replace my existing drives.

Chris Connor - Complete Atlantic Recordings.

That's what I get for typing and sautéing garlic at the same time!

Bump. Many years ago, I picked up a bunch of Chris Connor's Atlantic LPs at a flea market. I've finally gotten around to cleaning and spinning them. Chris must have been a huge influence on June Christy. I hear a lot of similarities.

Chris Connor - A Portrait of Chris - Atlantic (mono)

Dakota Staton - The Late, Late Show - Capitol (re-channeled stereo) '70s reissue with yellow Capitol label. Which is all wrong. Why did they put the Capitol logo over her fur coat and not in the field of black in the upper right?

Now spinning our copy of Steve, Eydie, and Luiz Bonfa, on a minty Columbia 2-eye MONO LP. Seth McFarland has forever ruined Steve Lawrence for me. Every time I hear Steve sing - which is not frequently, incidentally - I think it's Brian, the dog from "Family Guy."

Is there an advantage to having them powered at all times?

Thank you! Would you guys suggest having two SSDs, in the event that one fails? I typically have two sometimes even three external drives for this reason.

Thank you. But it appears that the ones I have are not SSDs, right?

Thanks. So I am using WD drives - My Passport for Mac: https://www.storagereview.com/review/wd-my-passport-for-mac-review and WD Elements: https://www.amazon.com/Western-Digital-Elements-Portable-External/dp/B06W55K9N6/ref=asc_df_B06W55K9N6/?tag=&linkCode=df0&hvadid=309779531175&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=8919762082056877177&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9052965&hvtargid=pla-301232220719&mcid=f501c952fcd23ddbb5d2167fd70494ee&ref=&adgrpid=62412137260&gclid=CjwKCAiA0bWvBhBjEiwAtEsoW04Pwh8l3l5BNXYDmcWZxjVXGAP8k5NPUvx-M_3gUdIQCyiNeRpm8xoC1A4QAvD_BwE&th=1 Are these the right or wrong kind?

Thanks for this. Not sure what you mean by mechanical vs. solid state HDs. Do you mean powered? I am using non-powered external drives that plug into a USB adapter that goes into my Mac laptop. I have had to upgrade the external drives over the years. An indicator that a drive will fail is that I can't search its contents. When this occurs, that is when I get new drives and transfer files. I should add here that I am not a particularly tech-savvy person on the planet. I should also add that I listen to the albums I back up using Apple Music played through a Bose docking station. I wonder if Apple Music can be part of the problem as the interface.

Well, this is embarrassing. I just realized that I've had this box set for ages and never played it. I got it for next to nothing when the old BMG club - remember that? - had a glitch on their website and was selling box sets for pennies on the dollar. Guess I'll uncork a bottle of wine and dig into this today!

@rostasi @Dan Gould Thank you both.

We have thousands of CDs, and around 12 or 13 years ago, I began backing up all of them using the XLD program. XLD rips accurately and indicates if any errors occurred in the ripping process. There have been at least two occasions over the years in which a particular track would not play, and I had to back up the track again to replace the corrupt file. As XLD provides a readout indicating if any tracks were not properly extracted, I can only assume that these two files became corrupt over the years, after they were accurately ripped. I realize that two tracks out of thousands of albums is not a big deal in the grand scheme of things, but I wonder if anyone else has experienced this or has any insights. Over the years, I have copied files from one external drive to another. While these should in theory be exact clones, I wonder if the damage occurs during this copying process. Just one more reminder that no single format is perfect.

You couldn't escape it!

I completely agree with this. When Oscar does his Tatum thing, it sounds very superficial to my ears. I'm not an Oscar-hater by any means, but he is not in the same league as Tatum, not even close.