Good Album Hunting, September 19, 2020: The Friends of the Springfield-Greene County Library Book Sale

Well, my friends, I have bought my first LPs in what seems like a long time. I guess my last purchases were in July when I bought a handful of records while spending gift cards at Relics Antique Mall, but, come on, it doesn’t feel like I’ve bought LPs unless I’ve been to this book sale and have bought fifty.

Which I did, sort of.

I got:

• Charlie Byrd
• Countdown Time In Outer Space The Dave Brubeck Quartet
• One Hell of a Woman Vikki Carr
• For All We Know Vikki Carr
• The Lord’s Prayer Perry Como
• Easy to Love Frankie Carle
• Praise the Almighty The Lutheran Hour Choir with the St. Louis Symphony
• Brasil 88 Sergio Mendes
• Norwegian Songs Kirsten Flagstad and Gerald Moore
• Puts A Little Sax In Your Life Boots Randolph
• On Stage Eydie Gormé (I already have this album, but for fifty cents, I’ll buy a back up)
• Moonglow Artie Shaw and His Orchestra
• Eydie In Love Eydie Gormé (I also have this one, but the one I already have skips a bit)
• Albany Park Lani Hall (I have a couple of her CDs, but I’m glad to get her on LP outside of Sergio Mendes and Brasil ’66)
• Radioland Nicolette Larson
• Rachmaninoff Concerto No. 3 Val Cliburn (I read something recently about how good of a pianist he is, so I thought I’d get one of his albums)
• Hit Parade International Tom Jones; this is an Italian greatest hits album with a book cover.
• TWB The Tim Wiseberg Band
• Das Lied der Berge; I am not sure if it’s the title or what as it’s completely in German
• A Very Good Year The Columbia Treasures Orchestra and Chorus. PWC.
• It’s Impossible Perry Como
• Wild Heart of the Young Karla Bonoff (PWC)
• My Favorite Brahms Van Cliburne (as it stands, I got two of his LPs)
• The Best of The Three Suns
• Together Again Tierra
• Song of Norway The Original Cast Album
• Bouquet of Love The Percy Faith Strings; there’s a lot of Perry Faith in the wild. I might as well see if I like it.
• Tiger Rag Jo Ann Castle and Her Wild Piano!
• Fool on the Hill Sergio Mendes & Brasil ’66. I know I have this album cover, but I bought it a long time ago to discover it had a different SM&B66 album in it. I might have already bought another copy with the right platter. But I know I’ve got it now.
• Great Verdi Arias Anna Moffe
• Sandy Posey Sandy Posey
• Temptation Roger Williams; one finds a lot of Roger Williams available. For fifty cents, I’ll take a flier on an album with a Pretty Women on the Cover (PWC).
• April in Portugal Frankie Carle
• Perry Como Sings Merry Christmas Music Perry Como
• Alone Too Long Charly McClain
• I’m Jessi Colter Jessi Colter
• The Best of Perry Como Perry Como
• Joyous Music for Christmas Time Various
• J.S. Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier Wanda Wandowska

Not purchased: A copy of Phoebe Snow’s debut album, which I bought in July at Relics for $7.99 and $1.99 as I bought two copies (remember, I had been looking for this album for a year and half at Relics after spotting an unpriced copy of it, so when I saw them this year, I bought both). I could have had it for fifty cents were I but patient! But you never know what you will find today or tomorrow while hunting, so it’s best to buy it when you see it if it’s not too expensive. Note that I did not buy a third copy; this isn’t Herb Alpert’s Whipped Cream and Other Delights of which I have three or four copies. I’ve stopped buying all of them that I see as the early Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass albums–The Lonely Bull, Going Places, South of the Border, What Now My Love, and Whipped Cream and Other Delights are still fairly common at book sales. And they will be, undoubtedly, until I need to replace one.

So for $24, I got a bunch of Perry Como along with a lot of late 70s and early 80s pop, jazz, and country.

Did I get any books, you ask? I’ll answer tomorrow.

Unfortunately, two things:

1. Given that I do not spend as much time in my parlor or kitchen these days, it will take me a long time to listen to all these records;
2. I don’t actually have room for these in the record shelves that I made last year, so I’ll have to make another set of them sometime soon.

First world problems, I know. But if I don’t hoard, how will my children sell enough things for a quarter each at my estate sale to amount to anything?