Whats on your turntable tonight?


For me its the first or very early LP's of:
Allman Brothers - "Allman Joys" "Idyllwild South"
Santana - "Santana" 200 g reissue
Emerson Lake and Palmer - "Emerson Lake and Palmer"
and,
Beethoven - "Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Major" Rudolph Serkin/Ozawa/BSO
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James Gang / james gang rides again
2017 MFSL #3651, orig. 1970

Classic rock ‘n roll, outstanding SQ. Back cover shown.

Started out with Beach Boys: "Holland" and "Pet Sounds"

Then: Pink Floyd: "The Dark Side of the Moon" (mofi) taking it home.

 

Bernstein conducts 

  • Shostakovich - Piano Concerto No. 1 With Trumpet Op. 35 with André Previn, piano
  • Poulenc - Concerto For 2 Pianos And Orchestra In D Minor with Arthur Gold & Robert Fizdale, piano

The New York Philharmonic Orchestra
Columbia Masterworks 1962
 

Fritz Reiner conducts Rachmaninoff - Concerto No. 2 In C Minor, Op. 18. The Chicago Symphony Orchestra with Van Cliburn, piano. RCA Red Seal reissue late 60’s, originally 1962
 

Vladimir Horowitz 

  • Variations On A Theme By Clara Wieck
  • Kreisleriana, Op. 16

Columbia Masterworks 1970
Library copy
 


Cat Stevens / Tea for the Tillerman
1970 A&M

Cover illustration by Cat Stevens.

The Sutherland Brothers & Quiver / Lifeboat 
1973 Island

Most of Quiver’s members played on Past Present & Future. Thanks to Steve Winwood, produced by brother Muff Winwood.

Al Stewart / Past Present And Future
1973 Janus

Great songs, SQ, lyrics like no other. Many different instruments and musicians.


Daryl Hall—John Oates / Abandoned Luncheonette
1973 Atlantic

No disappointments here.

St. Paul & The Broken Bones "Half the City" 

Live @ Avondale Brewing Company 

2021/Gotta Groove Records

Lorin Maazel conducts Sibelius - The Seven Symphonies
The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra 
DECCA 4 LP box 1972
 

 

Last Night:

Gentle Giant- Octopus 
La La Land - Soundtrack 
Lamb - What Sound 
Michael Mantler - The Hapless Child
Keith LeBlanc - Stranger than Fiction
Porcupine Tree - Signify
 

Yesterday I bought some original pressings I haven't heard in decades. All in beautiful condition, and sounding bbetter than I recall.

Goddo - Who Cares, Bob Seger - Against The Wind, Supertramp - Paris, The Pretenders - Debut,  Angel City- Night Attack

 

 

 

Steve Earle - Copperhead Road

1988 on Uni Records

great duet with Maria McKee on Nothing But A Child

Pierre Bartholomée conducts Schubert - Symphonie Nr.10 D Dur. Orchestre Philharmonique De Liège. Ricercar 1984, Belgium release
 

Georgia Brown – Sings Kurt Weill (London 1962)

One of my favorites when the recordings were lush and clear as a bell. 

Recommended.

Russ & Becky Jeffers – Russ & Becky Jeffers At Opryland (Lee-Ann 1975)

Jumbo String Band – Goin' Steppin' (Old Homestead 1983)

Solid bluegrass music and funnin'

Sir John Barbirolli conducts Mahler - Sinfonie Nr. 9
Berliner Philharmoniker
His Masters Voice/EMI reissue 1 1/2 LP early 70’s?, originally 1964
German release

Taneyev - Quartet No. 2 for Two Vilions, Viola, and Cello in C Major, Op. 5
The Taneyev Quartet of Leningrad
Мелодия 1980, USSR release 
 

Taneyev - Quartet No. 9 for Two Vilions, Viola, and Cello in A Major
The Taneyev Quartet of Leningrad
Мелодия 1979, USSR release
 

X-Ray Specs - Germfree Adolescents

Tab Smith - Joy at the Savoy -  Swedish Comp from the 80’s

Emtidi - Saat

- then I started digging through 45’s

Silvia Moore - Summertime

Mamie Thomas - Miss Good Blues

- and 78’s

Lionel Hampton - Slide Hamp Slide on Decca

Mackey’s Mitch Boul Gang - Happy Blues on Jump

- and then I got lazy again

MC5 - Kick Out The Jams

 

 

 

The Kohon Quartet of New York University : Dvořák - Chamber Music (Complete) Vol. I

  • Quartet In A Minor, Op. 16
  • Quartet in D Minor, Op. 34
  • Quartet In E-flat Major, Op. 51
  • Quartet In C Major, Op. 61
  • Quartet In E Major, Op. 80

VOX 3LP box, early 1960’s
 

 

Earlier:

Diagonal - same (2008) and Arc (2019)

Now:

Amulet - same (1980)

Next:

Woolfson / Parsons - Freudiana (1990)

Obernkirchen Children's Choir – Folk Songs And Fairy Tale (Angel 1957)

The Miami Chamber Trio – Miami Chamber Trio, Handel - Sonata II In G Major and others (Audiophile 1977)