Have you ever, have you ever ?
Bought then collected record albums only because you started with a handful of similar ones - one record does not make a crowd but I think a handful leads to it.
One day while traveling home from Guildford, I stopped at an Antiques and House Clearance store which I have found a few gems in over the years. There behind a stacked up shelf unit, on the floor and lower shelves, were LP's and 45's. I browsed and bought on good terms a selection.
There were groups of Albums - Jazz 33's and 78's . I took them home and cleaned them up, following YouTube's guideline video on cleaning 78's - run them under the hot/warm water tap and wipe them with a soft bristle brush with washing up liquid. It works well once dried most looked ok.
Bought sleeves and plastic covers and listened to the cleaned ones. Having visited New Orleans in the 80's with my wife Jackie and New York but not Chicago, I read the sleeve back notes and enjoyed many hours following their story.
I even found a brother of one Stephen Foster, Dunning Foster in Chicago and laughed as Dunning was Jackie's maiden name. Stephen Foster was prolific and brilliant but after New York left west to reside with his young brother's haulage business then travel further west to San Francisco.
The house clearance had hit on a Jazz Record collector's chest of love.
Was I lucky ? Yes however I had said, I'll just listen and bring them back if it suits? Now I think I'll keep them and listen again....no sound here yet but enjoy a read of some of the Album's covers contents below ..
Louis Armstrong - Cornet, Clarinet & Vocal Collection
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