{"id":29793,"date":"2022-04-30T07:54:06","date_gmt":"2022-04-30T12:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=29793"},"modified":"2022-04-29T15:37:07","modified_gmt":"2022-04-29T20:37:07","slug":"good-album-hunting-april-29-2022-friends-of-the-springfield-greene-county-library-book-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/30\/good-album-hunting-april-29-2022-friends-of-the-springfield-greene-county-library-book-sale\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Album Hunting, April 29, 2022: Friends of the Springfield-Greene County Library Book Sale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/29\/good-book-hunting-friday-april-29-2022-the-friends-of-the-springfield-greene-county-library-and-abc-books\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">I mentioned<\/a>, I made it out to the Friends of the Springfield-Greene County Library&#8217;s book sale yesterday and hit the dollar record bins.  The selection was smaller than the last sale&#8217;s&#8211;I guess everyone is realizing the value of old records, or perhaps the old, old records in the genres that I like have worked their way through the resale markets already.<\/p>\n<p>At any rate, I found a few things.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/gah29.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>This includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Al Jolson Volume 3<\/em>, a 10&#8243; record (Discogs minimum price: $1.55).<\/li>\n<li><em>Mexicali Brass South of the Border<\/em>.  Man, Herb Alpert really spawned a genre, ainna?  I am constantly finding new examples of it.  ($6.00).<\/li>\n<li><em>When You Come to the End of the Day<\/em> by Perry Como.  I don&#8217;t think I have this one, but I have so many now that the odds of me buying a duplicate are getting higher.  On the other hand, Perry Como put out a lot of records.  I saw his Christmas album with another variant cover.  ($0.98).<\/li>\n<li><em>Ready for the World<\/em>, self-titled debut.  Probably more pop than soul\/funk.  ($1.08).<\/li>\n<li><em>Natalie<\/em> by Natalie Cole from 1976.  ($.40).<\/li>\n<li><em>Warm and Willing<\/em> by Norrie Paramor and His Orchestra.  The first entry today with the Pretty Woman on the Cover (PWOC).  ($3.99).<\/li>\n<li><em>Emotion<\/em> by Samantha Sang.  1978 Funk\/soul\/pop, or so Discogs says.  PWOC.  ($.25).<\/li>\n<li><em>Sound Ideas<\/em> by Les and Larry Elgart.  I have a couple by Les and\/or Larry, including one I bought <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/25\/good-album-hunting-april-24-2022-relics-antique-mall\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">last weekend<\/a>.  I would have had another today, but it was only an Elgart cover with another record in it.  ($1.00).<\/li>\n<li><em>Night Rider!<\/em> by Tim Weisberg.  Not my favorite flutist, to be honest (top three are my beautiful wife, Herbie Mann, and Amber Underwood). ($.79).<\/li>\n<li><em>This Land Is Your Land<\/em> by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Philadelphia Orchestra.  Pops renditions of American folk songs.  What was I thinking?  ($.25).<\/li>\n<li><em>Burnished Brass<\/em> by the George Shearing Quintet with Brass Choir.  PWOC.  And I like the George Shearing groups, to which I was exposed because the records often have PWOC.  ($1.50).<\/li>\n<li><em>Four Rococo Quartets<\/em>.  Classical, but a bit obscure.  ($2.50).<\/li>\n<li><em>Highlights from Saint-Sa\u00ebns&#8217; Samson and Delilah<\/em>.   ($10.32).<\/li>\n<li><em>Holy, Holy, Holy: Hymns We Know And Love<\/em>.  Some hymns, but some pop hymns.  This record is not on Discogs, so it must be really collectible.<\/li>\n<li><em>The Music of the Caribbean<\/em> by the [WIRL] Steel Band. ($1.69).<\/li>\n<li><em>Lightly Latin<\/em> by Perry Como.  Pretty sure I didn&#8217;t have it.  <em>Everyone<\/em> released a Spanish-language album in the 1960s, ainna?  ($.98)<\/li>\n<li><em>Holidays in Portugal<\/em> by L\u00eddia Ribeiro.  The cover for this record is actually a brochure for a hotel and casinos in Lisbon, with photos and amenities of each. ($5.26)<\/li>\n<li><em>Country Boots<\/em> by Boots Randolph.  Apparently, everyone also put out a country album.  So it&#8217;s not too different from today.  ($1.00)<\/li>\n<li><em>Della on Stage<\/em> by Della Reese.  ($1.25)<\/li>\n<li><em>Tijuana Voices Sing Merry Christmas<\/em>.  I own more mariachi Christmas music than you do.  This is not my first.  ($1.90)<\/li>\n<li><em>The Holly and the Ivy<\/em> by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.  We already have a MTC Christmas record, and my wife really likes it.  So now we have another, which means our record player or receiver is scheduled to flame-out around the holidays again.  However, thanks to my mother-in-law&#8217;s recent move and downsizing, we have spares.<\/li>\n<li><em>Today<\/em> by Perry Como.  This is a 1987 record, so in my lifetime.  ($1.00)<\/li>\n<li><em>The Way of Today<\/em> by Vikki Carr.  Of course, as with the previous listing, <em>Today<\/em> in the title is now <em>The old days<\/em>; this record is sixties hits.  ($.63).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So that&#8217;s 23 records; according to the Discogs marketplace, I paid just about what they&#8217;re worth from collectors, although the covers on many of them are in rough shape.  But I&#8217;m not doing this to make money: I am doing this to see how much weight the floor of my parlor can take before collapse.<\/p>\n<p>So we will see whether I get back up north today or spend my time on something productive.<\/p>\n<p>So far, though, my purchases at the book sale have been fairly responsible.  Which is unlike me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I mentioned, I made it out to the Friends of the Springfield-Greene County Library&#8217;s book sale yesterday and hit the dollar record bins. The selection was smaller than the last sale&#8217;s&#8211;I guess everyone is realizing the value of old records, or perhaps the old, old records in the genres that I like have worked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29793","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=29793"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29795,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29793\/revisions\/29795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}