What vinyl are you spinning right now??

[paul secor]

Eddie C. Campbell: King of the Jungle

[paul secor]

Horace Parlan: Complete BN Sessions - LP 4 - Speakin' My Piece session

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

the 1st one you posted-- thats what i got!!!!!!  isnt it nice?

[paul secor]

[paul secor]

Houston Shuffle - Texas R&B 1955 - 1966 (Krazy Kat)

[soulpope]

6 hours ago, paul secor said:

Eddie C. Campbell: King of the Jungle

Very good ....

[JohnS]

10 hours ago, JSngry said:

What are your thoughts on that one? I've never had it gel the way I'd like to, but keep wondering if I have unrealistic expectations.

Didn't work for me.  Too long ago to remember why.

Edited October 10, 2018 by JohnS

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

was going to get rid of this but then i tested it and its actually not a mood music lp but jazz piano almost more of the hard bop kind.  on disocgs it says he is on the split lp on guest star shared w/ don garner feat.jimmy smith-- u think it could be a pseudonim for ramsey lewis?

 

[kh1958]

15 hours ago, JSngry said:

What are your thoughts on that one? I've never had it gel the way I'd like to, but keep wondering if I have unrealistic expectations.

I really liked one song; the rest was sort of okay.

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

4 hours ago, chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez said:

was going to get rid of this but then i tested it and its actually not a mood music lp but jazz piano almost more of the hard bop kind.  on disocgs it says he is on the split lp on guest star shared w/ don garner feat.jimmy smith-- u think it could be a pseudonim for ramsey lewis?

 

I wouldn't bet on it. But Lewes is a VERY unusual spelling for a personal name. I used to live in a town called Lewes and I've never heard of a person by that name, not even from there.

But I checked the Lord discography and there are zero musicians called Lewes in the index. Nor are there any called Wilson Lewis.

So it's an open question. But this has GOT to be mid-sixties stuff and Ramsey was TOO well known and successful to be making anonymous recordings in those days. And he made four of the buggers! SURELY not!!!!

MG

[JSngry]

I'd think it more likely that it was somebody we may or may not have heard of, but the record company gave him or her that name for the record to get a potential buyer either confused or at least wondering.

[Simon Weil]

21 minutes ago, The Magnificent Goldberg said:

But Lewes is a VERY unusual spelling for a personal name. I used to live in a town called Lewes and I've never heard of a person by that name, not even from there

George Eliot's partner

[JSngry]

Hell, it might even be different people on each record!

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

2 minutes ago, Simon Weil said:

George Eliot's partner

Thank you. Well, I've heard of one now. I see his grandfather came from up Cumbria, which is practically in Scotland.

 

2 minutes ago, JSngry said:

Hell, it might even be different people on each record!

Quite right. Diplomat, according to Discogs, was owned by Synthetic Plastics, so isn't the kind of label one would naturally associate with being terribly straight up and down.

MG

[Simon Weil]

7 minutes ago, The Magnificent Goldberg said:

Thank you. Well, I've heard of one now. I see his grandfather came from up Cumbria, which is practically in Scotland.

 

He was born in London and educated in Ambleside (Cumbria).

[JSngry]

Diplomat was one of the "supermarket labels", labels for places that "sold records" but not "real records", if you know what I mean. Don't know the situation over there, but back in the day here, you could find records in a LOT of places, dime stores, grocery stores, furniture stores, tire stores (sic), general goods stores, drug stores, a lot of different places. And only some carried current hits and/or major labels. Those who didn't, omg, that's where you got Crown, Diplomat, Design, Grand Prix, labels like that. And don't get me going on the places that sold cutout 45s in plastic bags for, like, 39 cents or 3/$1.

I keep saying this, but/and it's true - records used to be, almost literally, everywhere.

[Kevin Bresnahan]

2 hours ago, JSngry said:

Diplomat was one of the "supermarket labels", labels for places that "sold records" but not "real records", if you know what I mean. Don't know the situation over there, but back in the day here, you could find records in a LOT of places, dime stores, grocery stores, furniture stores, tire stores (sic), general goods stores, drug stores, a lot of different places. And only some carried current hits and/or major labels. Those who didn't, omg, that's where you got Crown, Diplomat, Design, Grand Prix, labels like that. And don't get me going on the places that sold cutout 45s in plastic bags for, like, 39 cents or 3/$1.

I keep saying this, but/and it's true - records used to be, almost literally, everywhere.

I used to buy 45s at the "corner store" which was a combination pharmacy/soda fountain/candy store/newstand. Hartman's Pharmacy. Those were the days. I especially remember being around 9 or 10 and coming home with a 45 of Led Zeppelin's "Whole Lotta Love", playing it on the record player and singing "Gonna give you every inch of my love" and wondering why my mother came screeching into the room, ripped it off the player and telling me, "This is going back". I had no idea what was going on.

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

2 hours ago, JSngry said:

Diplomat was one of the "supermarket labels", labels for places that "sold records" but not "real records", if you know what I mean. Don't know the situation over there, but back in the day here, you could find records in a LOT of places, dime stores, grocery stores, furniture stores, tire stores (sic), general goods stores, drug stores, a lot of different places. And only some carried current hits and/or major labels. Those who didn't, omg, that's where you got Crown, Diplomat, Design, Grand Prix, labels like that. And don't get me going on the places that sold cutout 45s in plastic bags for, like, 39 cents or 3/$1.

I keep saying this, but/and it's true - records used to be, almost literally, everywhere.

Yeah, it was similar over here but it was mainly majors who made 'em. A few indies like ARC and the Czech label Supraphon were in there, too, but not many. And some of their stuff was wonderful. I've never heard a recording of Debussy's string quartet I liked better than the one by the Vlach Quartet on Supraphon - and I kick myself weekly for having flogged it!

MG

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[JSngry]

Over the last few years, as I've gotten into some committed classical listening, Supraphon has pretty much become a "buy on sight" label for me. I'm sure they did some lesser product, but so far, everything I've found on them has been excellent!

[sidewinder]

I have their Clark/Boland Big Band release - will dig it out.

[JSngry]

8 minutes ago, Kevin Bresnahan said:

I used to buy 45s at the "corner store" which was a combination pharmacy/soda fountain/candy store/newstand. Hartman's Pharmacy. Those were the days. I especially remember being around 9 or 10 and coming home with a 45 of Led Zeppelin's "Whole Lotta Love", playing it on the record player and singing "Gonna give you every inch of my love" and wondering why my mother came screeching into the room, ripped it off the player and telling me, "This is going back". I had no idea what was going on.

Dude, I grew up in a town with a population of around 6,000. We had a drugstore, Jobe Drug, that had a little 3-wide/2 deep LP bin that kept the current releases in rock, Pop, Easy Listening, and Country, as well as a 45 rack right above it that always had the Top 20 hits. But dig this - they didn't use the Billboard Top 20, they used the Top 40 list provided by the rack jobber. This was no secret, there was always, like, 5-10 copies of this list hanging by the records, help yourself, and the jobbers name address and phone # was prominently displayed. The Shreveport Times (the then-"big city" newspaper for our area used to print the Billboard Top 20 every Sunday, so it was fun for a geek kid like me to contrast and compare, It was almost always the same songs but often in different order. thus the notion of "regional hit" became planted in my mind, which confirmed why and how I could hear different songs on different Top 40 station across the country (to the extent that post-sundown AM radio stations could be heard where I lived, which was well enough, all things considered).

Jobe Drug also carried a selection of pulp "detective" magazines that told sordid stories about the illicit side of life, always one story about prostitution, and at some point those pages would have on topless photo, nothing splashy, just...there. None of us had the nerve to go to the town's newsstand and actually look at a Playboy, but in Jobe Drug, those detective mags were at the front of the store, the opposite side of where anybody worked, and were mixed in with the sports and outdoors and car and all the other mags, so, you know...word got around among us 13 year olds.

Here's the obit of the guy who ran it: https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/statesman/obituary.aspx?page=lifestory&pid=106116639

There's this little tidbit, which I never knew:

Always the progressive thinker, Jobe joined with Tom Perryman to sponsor Elvis Presley's singing debut in 1955 while associated with the Gladewater Junior Chamber of Commerce.

Yes, Elvis played Gladewater in 1955, that I knew, it's still a point of local pride (sic). But I never knew that Mr. Jobe was involved. That makes a lot of things fall into place!

[sidewinder]

59 minutes ago, Kevin Bresnahan said:

I used to buy 45s at the "corner store" which was a combination pharmacy/soda fountain/candy store/newstand. Hartman's Pharmacy. Those were the days. I especially remember being around 9 or 10 and coming home with a 45 of Led Zeppelin's "Whole Lotta Love", playing it on the record player and singing "Gonna give you every inch of my love" and wondering why my mother came screeching into the room, ripped it off the player and telling me, "This is going back". I had no idea what was going on.

Classic !

[paul secor]

John Jackson: Deep in the Bottom (Rounder)

With my friend Bill Morrison playing bass on some tracks

[soulpope]

2 hours ago, paul secor said:

John Jackson: Deep in the Bottom (Rounder)

With my friend Bill Morrison playing bass on some tracks

Good one ....

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

11 hours ago, JSngry said:

Over the last few years, as I've gotten into some committed classical listening, Supraphon has pretty much become a "buy on sight" label for me. I'm sure they did some lesser product, but so far, everything I've found on them has been excellent!

Do you have the Debussy/Ravel quartets LP?

MG