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<\/a><\/p>\nI got:<\/p>\n
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- Four albums by the Four Freshmen. I already had The Swingers<\/em> and have hoped for the opportunity to expand the collection. This time out, I got Four Freshmen and Five Guitars<\/em>, Freshman Favorites<\/em>, In A Class By Themselves<\/em>, and Fresh!<\/em> which is from 1986 and is probably a new set of singers.
<\/li>\n- Linda Ronstadt’s What’s New<\/em> which looks to be a collection of standards.
<\/li>\n- Pete Fountain’s Mood Indigo<\/em>. I got a couple of Pete Fountain’s albums in the autumn, and I liked them well enough to look for more.
<\/li>\n- Mary McPartland Plays the Music of Billy Strayhorn<\/em>
<\/li>\n- Ray Parker, Jr., The Other Woman<\/em>
<\/li>\n- Yello, One Second<\/em> featuring “Oh Yeah” (which also appears in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off<\/em>. When my children were littler, I played this song for them a lot on YouTube. It will seem strangely familiar to them now when I play it on record.
<\/li>\n- Doc Severinson and the Sound of the 70s, Feel Good<\/em>
<\/li>\n- An album of Gregorian Chant
<\/li>\n- The soundtrack to the film Xanadu<\/em> to replace a copy I bought last autumn which skips.
<\/li>\n- Two other Olivia Newton-John albums, Don’t Stop Believin’<\/em> and something else because my beautiful wife has a lots of her albums. When I showed her the new ones and asked if she had them, she said no. Also, she doesn’t really like Olivia Newton-John.
<\/li>\n- Diana Schuur, Schuur Thing<\/em>
<\/li>\n- Tito Rodriguez, Este Es Mi Mundo<\/em> (This Is My World).
<\/li>\n- Jackie Gleason, How Sweet It Is For Lovers<\/em>
<\/li>\n- A collection of television theme songs not by the original artists.
<\/li>\n- A bunch of classical stuff because it looks as though the college radio station was dumping a lot of classical records. It’s hard for me to pick amongst classical things, as I’m not sure what of the great composers we have or lack (aside from knowing we have a lot of Beethoven but no Fidelio<\/em>).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
This year, the Rat Pack and Herb Alpert were poorly represented; only The Dean Martin Show<\/em> and a copy of What Now My Love<\/em> were present. A lot of Olivia Newton-John, though, and a lot of Barbra Streisand.<\/p>\n
I also got a couple of packs of poetry chapbooks (bundled together for a buck each), A History of Rome to 565 AD<\/em>, and a collection of musings called Ginger Snaps<\/em>.<\/p>\n
So my bookshelves are not bulging much more from the purchase, but my record storage is now sadly lacking. I’ll have to invest in a nice record cabinet sometime to store them properly.<\/p>\n
And I’ve discovered that I get a more acute sense of anticipation buying record albums than books. When I bring the records home and put them by the record player, I find myself inventing reasons to be in the parlor just so I can listen to another of the new platters. When I bring the books home, I’m often interested in reading them, but I no longer really get a I can’t wait!<\/em> feeling. Because, as the years have proven, I often do wait. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Today, I visited the Friends of the Springfield-Greene County Library Spring Book Sale for the first time. Over the last couple of years, I’ve adopted a staged approach to the book sale. First, I go for the albums, and then I go back and look over the books, preferably on half price or bag day. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14437"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14438,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14437\/revisions\/14438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
- Linda Ronstadt’s What’s New<\/em> which looks to be a collection of standards.