[Vintage-Audio] Re Vintage Records Smell Nasty, But Play Great!

[Duane Fischer, W8DBF]

My Bass singing buddy dropped off a stack of vintage vinyl this afternoon, 
all of which bore my Braille punched Dyno clear plastic tape. Wow! Remember 
that place called "K-Mart"? It still exists in limited supply in some 
states. The price tag of $3.49 is still on most albums.

However, some curious soul must have sampled some of the albums, as the 
paper jacket inserts were missing!

Do you hate the smell of musty things and mildew enriched items as much as I 
do? Cough! Hack! Smelled worse than my younger brother's feet, and believe 
me, that elevated it from simply giving you the dry heaves to being totally 
toxic!

If any of you are curious as to what treasures I revisited today from the 
middle to late sixties, drop me an e-mail and I will forward you a listing 
of the album titles and artists.

Whatever became of the Pozo Seco Singers? A nice Folk group with smooth 
harmony. I got a laugh listening to Richard Carpenter singing one of the 
Beachboys hit tunes! Sort of like having my dear friend Joe Walsh, WB6ACL 
sing Opera! Visualize BIG George Foreman tap dancing ... That type of shock 
effect on the sensory feed to the brain!

Duane W8DBF
dfischer at usol.com

P.S. An OOPS! I also found a copy of the first, for real, Moog synthesizer 
being played by some Sir George ? guy for "Switched On Bacharach". I thought 
that Walter 'Wendy' Carlos did this? Was it done by two different artists or 
did I type the wrong artist's name into my database?

Several of you wanted copies of the original very late sixties Moog 
synthesizer albums, as it is this instrument that became the father of all 
the electronic generations of synthesizers right up to their current 
incarnation. Some of you say, "Yea, so what! Pigs don't fly and the Moon 
really is blue cheese, not green cheese! Like so what?" Well I guess that 
does tell us who slep through History class in high school! (Most of us!) 
But I do find it fascinating to listen to the sound the first Moog generated 
and what instrumentation it could emulate as compared to those super 
synthesizers of this era.