Old Vinyl Records

[jon hynes]

I'm sure he didn't pay anything for the records. They must have been off the Jukes though. No white labels or Property of Stamped on them.

[dgriffin]

Jimmy seldom payed for anything! Barter was king for him. Hahaha, he always had something going. A businessman, like his father, I always thought. And his Mom, of course. That said, he did pay me cash for running the press in his print shop. And he usually bought me lunch!
I was thinking the other day, he and I go back to third grade. Kindergarten, actually, but we didn't begin to hang around together until the summer of third grade when he put up a wall tent smack in the middle of the field where James St. now crosses Gibson Rd. He and his mother and brother Joe were living in the house on the corner of the Parkway and Gibson. He mailed away for a Hopalong Cassidy (or some cowboy) combination camp stove and oven, a sort of large coffee can. As two 8 year olds, we took it to the tent, where we realized it would set the floor afire if we lit it up. So we took it back up the street to his house and back yard, but the cleaning lady told him not to light it up until she was able to finish some chore inside and then come out to watch us. Jimmy, impatient as usual, decided to take it down to the basement and light it up there on the cement floor, using matches and pencil-sized sticks we had found in the field. When the cleaning lady smelled the smoke, I thought she'd have a stroke! I was sent home and Jimmy sent to his room.
That fall I moved to Whitesboro for a few months and then returned to the west side of the city. I lost track of Jimmy until we started UCA together in the fall of 1957. He and the nuns definitely did not get along. I wouldn't want to post here on the forum some of the crazy things he did , but they were sufficient to end his tenure at UCA. By that time, M. and the boys had moved to New Hartford anyway, so that's where he spent most of his high school years. But while we were at UCA we discovered our mutual interest in printing and, even though in different schools, we continued to visit. When his mom helped him start his printing business on South St. when he was a junior in high school, I became his pressman, running the old C&P 10x15 platen press. No motor! It was foot-pumped. One day he said to me, "We (Hank Bowman, Jimmy and Mike Motto) need a piano player for the band we're forming."

[frankcor]

Ny 27-year old neice recently revealed that she's begun collecting vinyl albums. She and her boyfriend bought a fairly robust turntable (B&O with a tangential pickup arm). She was tickled pink to have found an original copy of Three Dog Night's first album "One" still in its celophane wrapper.

I remember listening to those tracks on a cassette tape when I was in Vietnam, more than two decades before she was conceived. Where did the time go?

[Clipper]

I bought that album counterfeit in Kaoshung Taiwan while on R and R from Viet Nam. We bought cheap copies of blackmarket versions of all the popular music, taped them onto reel to reel tape on Akai tape decks we bought in Japan, and tossed the records that we could not bring back to the states. Shipped the tapes and the tape deck home , and truly enjoyed the music for several years after returning home. I must have had over 100 hours of music on reel to reel. Lost in the shuffle over the years and a couple of divorces.

[jon hynes]

Oct 15, 2008 12:01:04 GMT -5 Clipper said:

Lost in the shuffle over the years and a couple of divorces.

Mine were mostly stolen out of a warehouse, along with Test equipment and Tools. I managed to keep a few thousand albums and 45s however. I've still got several turntables, but it's hard to find one that works perfectly, if at all. I don't have the eyesight to re-wire a tone arm anymore, or the fine wire for that matter.

[frankcor]

Clipper, I had an Akai reel-to-reel that had an 8-track head in the side. The reel-to-reel portion had excellent sound characteristics but the signal-to-noise ratio on the 8-track was less than 1.

[lucy]

My grandma wants me to sell her Elvis Records does anyone here know what I can or go through to sell them?

[Clipper]

Send me a PM lucy. I Kathy's sister in law is an Elvis nut. She may want them and would pay the price. I will send Edna an email and see if she is interested. Give me a phone number if you feel comfortable doing that, and I will have Edna and Richard call her. They live in Whitesboro and are retired.

[frankcor]

And I'll check with Elvis next time I see him.

[Clipper]

Check the Franklin Hotel Frank. All the important people in Rome hang out there or at Aquino's, haha.

[lucy]

Let me see if I have them or if she does then I will get ahold of you.

[chris]

Looking for some 45's (Target's) I found many 45's of Elvis. I also have many LP's of Elvis from my teenage days. I was thinking of doing Ebay with the records.