Expand my record collection

• Joe Cocker: MAd Dogs & Englishmen
• Chubby Checker: Limbo Party
• Folk Songs with Harry Belafonte and Calypso with The Islanders
• The Dean Franconi Strings play The Nat King Cole Songbook
• Glenn Miller’s Original Recordings
• Perry Como And I love you So
• The Best of Jackie Gleason

I was thinking about my record collection, and this goal. It’s much like the goal I have to write more poetry. Just like the Write More Poetry goal it’s hard to determine whether or not when exactly you complete this goal…I mean How Many records does it take to expand your collection?!
When I started this goal I only had like 15 records all together and now I’ve doubled that number to a whopping 40 records; I do intend on expanding it to an outrageous number but how long will this goal be on my list? How many years will it take to reach an undetermined amount of records?
I have expanded my collection so far and I think I should be proud of my self to gather 40 albums withing like 6 months because even though you can find them at thrift stores and yard sales and some music stores; you all know as well as I do that not everyplace has the ideal records you want. I don’t want country music, or classical records even though I’m very diverse with music, I just want some Big Band, Swing, Jazz, Blues, Soul, Folk Rock, Classic Rock etc. kinds of records. I’ll listen to them more.
This whole rant is because I’m going to try to reach…oh 100 records? Before I take this “To Do” or “Goal” or whatever you want to call it off my 43things list.

In no particular order

33’s

1. Childrens Christmas Classics: Frosty the Snowman

2.KISS: Rock N Roll Over

3. Eric Clapton: At His Best

4. Billboard Hits of 1961

5. The Golden Strings: The Monkees Songbook

6. John Cougar Mellencamp: Uh-Huh

7. The Ghostbusters Soundtrack

8. CCR: Willie and the Poor Boys

9. Babes in Toy Land Soundtrack

10. Neil Diamond: Serenade

11. Neil Diamond: Gold

12. Simone and Garfunkle: Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, and Thyme

13. The Best of Peter Paul and Mary

14. Jonathan Livingston Seagull Soundtrack

15. Foreigner: Agent Provocateur

16. John Cougar Mellencamp: American Fool

17. Cheap Trick: In Color

18. Eddie Money: No Control

19. Lynyrd Skynyrd: Street Survivors

20. Simon and Garfunkle: Bridge Over Troubles Water

21. The Doors: Waiting for the Sun

22. The Doors: The Soft Parade

23. Carole King: Tapestry

24. Steppenwolf

25. The Doors

26. BTO: Four Wheel Drive

27. Remember How Great…? Volume 2

28. Pat Boone’s Greatest Hits

29. Grand Funk: We’re an American Band

30. Bob Marley: Legend

31. 24 Groovy Greats

32. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs Soundtrack

33. The Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra

34. The Magical World of the Brothers Grimm

35. Saturday Night Fever Soundtrack

45’s

1. Sammy Davis Junior: Candyman, I want to be happy

2. Club Nouveau: Lean on Me, Pump it Up (Reprise)

3.Blue Swede: Gotta Have Your Love, Hooked On a Feeling

4. Chicago: Once in a Lifetime, You’re the Inspiration

5. Weird Al: Slime Creatures form Outer Space, Like a Surgeon

So I have about 40 Records so far =)

I now have the complete soundtrack to Snow White on Vinyl, Babes in Toyland, and one has the Nutcracker suite on one side and a Midsummer Nights Dream on the other, and the last one I got is like 20 hits from the 60’s. ^.

I just stopped at a yard sale today and grabbed 6 more records…now I have Carole King Tapestry, Steppen Wolf Born to Be Wild, The Doors: The Doors, Wait for the SUn, and The Soft Parade, and Clapton: At His Best xD

I have I think 10 33’s and 5 45’s and I also have a turntable to play them on. I just want some more because I like the whole time warp feeling I get when I sit there listening to records.

I finally got a record player for Christmas! I scored a lot of records at my local Salvation Army for $1 each. And overall they are in decent condition. Billy Joel “The Stranger”, Carly Simon “Hotcakes”, Donna Summers’s Greatest Hits, Elvis Costello & The Attractions “Armed Forces”...haha I love it! It’s all music I would probably not normally download onto my iPod and stuff. But my brothers and I had the best dance-athon to Donna Summers tonight. I also got The Velvet Underground “Andy Warhol” brand new (that was like $13 though). Then The Rolling Stones “Hot Rocks” and “Sticky Fingers” for about $5 together. I can’t wait to get back to Manhattan and keep looking for records. I really like Rockit Scientist Records and Sounds, both in St. Mark’s Place if anyone is in the area they have a lot of stuffff.

My Doors record is being played out lately! I need new records, I would hate to get sick of this one.

At a local bazaar I scored TWO perfect jimi hendrix records for only four bucks and a perfect condition Doors ‘Strange Days’ for two bucks.

ooooh I love vinyl. mmm

The only reason I don’t have a ridiculously large, detailed, extensive record collection is because of my financial restrictions. I got no cash HOMEY! I only have FOUR records as of right now…Dead Kennedys, Monster Squad, GG Allin, and MUSIC TO EAT PIZZA BY…yeah. The amazing sound of 23 accordions playing the top italian pizza-themed hits of the sixties…Wow.