Your Best Vinyl Memory

Rolling Stones:"It's all over now Baby.." (my 1. girl friend)

My best vinyl memory is fairly recent. Like many, I had almost totally replaced my LP listening with CDs. While I never got rid of my TT or LPs,, I went through a period of many years where the the playing of an LP was a rare event. Then, about a year and a half ago, my best friend bought a new TT. As a "TT warming", I bought him a copy of the then just released Cisco 30th anniversary pressing of Steely Dan's Aja. In that I also love that album, I purchased one for myself as well.
You all can probably see where this is heading. My first listening was magic! I was totally blown away by what I was hearing. I couldn't believe that a format that I had all but forsaken could sound so good. Needless to say in the time since, I've acquired a new TT rig and about 150 new albums. Just recently, I bought a new CDP and my main criteria was how analog sounding it was - could it keep up with this wonderful "new/old" sound that I had rediscovered.

hearing Sgt. Pepper in the band room for the first time on a tube console record player. wow

When Thomas Edison first showed me his cylinder with music on it....no seriously, that's how old I feel with the names mentioned here, versus the one I'm going to mention.

Nancy Wilson and Cannonball Adderly circa 1962--the song, "The Masquerade is Over". It's quiet smooth, Joe Zawinal on piano, playing so lyrically behind her vocals. When Nancy sings the words, "I guess I'll have to play Pagliacci saddest clown) and get myself a clowns disguise, then I'll learn to laugh like Pagliacci, with tears in my eyes. This is so incredibly poignant, so prosaic--Johnny Mercer quality lyrics.
(Go to youtube, type Nancy Wilson, Cannonball Adderly and this audio will come up.) You'll find that you have to have this album!

For someone who's just lost a love, or is estranged from their love, this song is absolutely a gut wrenching four minutes--but so beautiful it's not to be missed.

Larry