[Vintage-Audio] Re The Full Cycle Circle?

[Duane Fischer, W8DBF]

A Happy Thanksgiving to those of you who celebrate it.

As most know, I am totally blind. I label each vinyl album cover with a 
clear Dyno tape Braille label. I have all albums organized into catagories 
and then alphabetized within said catagory. I wrote a computer program that 
keeps all the data - title, artist, studio, year, price, playlist, etc. for 
each album, or 45 rpm single, etc.


One day I simply ran out of physical room to store my constantly growing 
vinyl collection. So with great annoyance, I sorted out some titles and gave 
them to a trusted male friend to store for me. He was/is a Bass singer and 
has lived in more places than some small states have incorporated villiages! 
He loves living on the road and how long he is bunked in a bus just does not 
seem to bother him, but since I am also a professional entertainer, Magician 
not Musician, my limit living on the road was two weeks, then I went back to 
the home hideaway for a week of rest! I figured the fifty or so vinyl albums 
I gave him to store were long gone!

Last night he called me from his parent's place. It is in Clio, MI about 12 
miles northwest of me. He asked if I remembered the double album by the 
"Carpenters" that he had asked me if I happened to have two weeks back? I 
said I sure did, but I had no success to date in finding him a clean copy. 
He said he looked in a closet at his parent's home and there was a big box 
of vinyl albums, many with labels in Braille! Plus his original double album 
by the Carpenters he thought was gone three wives back! (Entitled something 
like, "The Carpenters - Then And Now). He would stop here Fridday and we 
could check them to see if they were worth me remastering for him.

Then he said, "Hey Fischer, remember that provocative Nancy Sinatra 1966 
album you wanted, but could not find? You thought you gave it away? I have 
it and the Braille label is still on it too! You are right, whew ... Some 
cover! I also found your new copy of that album Denny McClaine, that Detroit 
Tigers pitcher who won like 31 games in 1968 when they won the World Series, 
played the organ in bars? I'll bring that one along too."

So tomorrow could be a real memory lane 'let my fingers do the walking' trip 
kind of day! Oh yes, that album by Nancy is "Sugar", I think it came out 
just before the one that had "These Boots Are Made For Walking" on it.

I was told by the owner of Rarebird Records, that the sealed original copy 
of "Sugar" sold for $35 and the opened/used copy in Excellent/Excellent 
condition for $20. Maybe I can do some Magic patter and convince somebody 
that this album with the Braille label once belonged to Stevie Wonder!

If any of you are on a quest for some original vinyl from the sixties, send 
me your playlist. I'll take a 'feel' and see if it is among these vintage 
vinyl relics recently rescued.





Duane Fischer, W8DBF
dfischer at usol.com
HHI: Halligan's Hallicrafters International
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HHRP: Historic Halligan Radio Project
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