Well, gentle reader, I did take a little time today to run up to the Friends of the Springfield-Greene County Library Book Sale and run through the records. I’d hoped I’d get premium selections being that it was the second day of the sale, but to be honest, it was not that different from the pickings one would find on Friday or Saturday.
Which is not to say that I did not find anything.
I got:
- Posh Patrice Rushen. I was pleased to discover that I bought her album Now in 2019 and not a duplicate of this album.
- 1100 Bel Air Place Julio Iglesias.
- I’m Leaving It All Up To You Donny & Marie Osmond.
- Tall Tales The New Christy Minstrels. The first of three I bought as peace offerings for my beautiful wife.
- The New Christy Minstrels In Person The New Christy Minstrels. The second of three.
- New Kick! The New Christy Minstrels. Boy, I hope she likes the New Christy Minstrels and not just their Christmas album which she remembers from her youth. Not that I’m saying she’s old now, mind you.
- Boots and Stockings Boots Randolph. The saxophone master’s Christmas album.
- Something Festive, an A&M Records sampler.
- Peace in the Valley Ace Cannon.
- It Must Be Him Vikki Carr.
- Dino Dean Martin. Which I did not have.
- Here’s Eydie Gorme Eydie Gorme. Which I also did not have. It’s always a treat to find a new Eydie record.
- Music To Remember Her By Jackie Gleason. I already have it, but I think this has a better cover.
- The Second Time Around Henry Mancini. I think I have it, but this cover is pretty nice.
- Golden Saxophones Billy Vaughn.
- Billy Vaughn Plays Billy Vaughn. I got the impression he was a saxophone player, but there’s not one on the cover. He might be a band leader. (Apparently so.)
- Dionne Warwicks’ Greatest Motion Picture Hits Dionne Warwick.
- The Songs I Love Perry Como. I might have it, but for a dollar, I’ll make sure.
- King of Swing with the All Time Greats Benny Gooddman.
- Christmas Is The Man From Galilee Cristy Lane.
- Breezin’ George Benson. My hopefully recently ended seemingly unending quest to find one that does not skip.
- Velvet Carpet George Shearing Quartet with String Chorus.
- Greatest Hits Boots Randolph. I might already have it, but for a dollar, I’ll make sure.
- The Greatest for Dancing George Evans and His Symphony of Saxes.
- We Got Us Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme. I had it already, but this is likely a better cover.
- Hooked on Classics III. I’m pleased to see that I’ve not mentioned buying this before, which means it’s probably not a dupe.
- Colours of Love Hugh Montenegro. Love songs by the guy who scored The Man With No Name. Should be interesting at worst.
- Country Gentleman Henry Mancini.
- Greatest Hits Volume 1 Dean Martin. Already had it, but this has a nice cover.
- Dionne Dionne Warwick.
- Brook Benton Sings Brook Benton with Charlie Francis. Who’s this guy? Ask me after while.
- More Solid & Raunchy Bill Black’s Combo. C’mon, it has raunchy right in the title. And it’s apparently the second. (Research indicates this was an early bassist, and Ace Cannon is on the sax).
I also got three boxed sets:
- Benny Goodman Sextet on 78rpm records. I’m not sure if my current record player can handle them. But I have plenty. 4 records.
- A Treasury of Dean Marting, a Longines Symphonette Society collection. 5 records.
- Modern Chinese: A Basic Course, a 3-record set. Which brings the total of record sets to teach one’s self a foreign language up to four or five, none of which I’ve listened to.
That’s 44 records total (although sets count as a single unit for pricing). A lot of saxophone. I passed up a lot of Slim Whitman titles, which I am sure I will come to regret if Mars attacks.
I also noted an extensive spread of $1 DVDs–about a whole row, so six or ten tables’ worth. I only breezed over a couple of tables before hitting the records, but I still gathered a couple:
Watch for these films to come to a movie report near you soon:
- Catch Me If You Can
- Snitch, a Dewayne Johnson film
- Domino
- Taxi Driver. Finally, I will know if he is talking to Travis Bickle.
- 300
- The Italian Job, the original with Michael Caine
- House of Blues Beginner Keyboards. Maybe if I cannot learn guitar, I can return to keyboards, which I tried to teach myself in college.
- Bad Boys. I am pretty sure I have Bad Boys 2 around here somewhere, and I recently held up my son from watching it because we had not seen the first.
- The Family Man with Nicholas Cage and Tea Leoni. I saw this in the theater with my beautiful wife.
- Road to Perdition, the Tom Hanks movie. Which means I can go on a Tom Hanks kick if I watch it close to Catch Me If You Can.
- The Minority Report
Looking at the list, I’ve seen five of them in the cinemas (Catch Me If You Can, 300, The Family Man, The Road to Perdition, and The Minority Report). Which means they all came out in that relatively brief period of time (say, 1990 to 2004) when I went to more than one movie a year in the cinemas. Man, that was a brief time that seemed to be lasting forever until I later realize it ended.
At any rate, the total was $44, which means the book counter miscounted. I don’t feel too bad about it, as we are members of the Friends of the Springfield-Greene County Library, and not at the entry level tier.
I might go back on Saturday. Normally, I would stick to the Better Books section on half price day, but I might take a closer look at the then-fifty-cent DVDs. Because all of a sudden, I’m thinking about Mars Attacks! (1996). Which I saw in the theater.
