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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The Who / Who’s next
1971 DECCA

Fabulous album, maybe their best.
”My Wife”, great song, lyrics by John “Thunderfingers” Entwistle. “My life’s in jeopardy, murdered in cold blood is what I’m gonna be…”


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)