Spinning My Dad’s Vinyl

Oct 27 2024 200 ep. 37 mins 3

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Extensive and Eclectic and we hear them as is with scratches, crackles and pops. Being a radio and mobile DJ for a decade and a half, I collected several hundred albums. I had nothing on my dad who owned more than 500 (33 1/3) LPs and over 100 78 RPMs at the time of his death in December 2019. I had no idea he had so many. We found them spread all over the house when we prepared for the estate sale. I went through every one and categorized them on an app called Discogs. I thought so many were unique, I decided to start a podcast called Spinning My Dad’s Vinyl. Each episode will feature an album. I’ll tell stories about the family listening to these albums and I’ll give other info about the album and the time it was released.

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Volume 200: Frank's Earworms Take 2

Oct 27 2024 57 mins

Well, here’s a milestone for you. I can’t believe that I have reached 200 shows with no intent of stopping. While I’ve played over 12 hundred songs on this show over those more than three and a three quarter years, I have several that have stuck in my brain or keep coming up in conversation and memories. They may not be the most popular of the songs I’ve played, the bigges

Volume 199: Tea and Trumpets

Oct 20 2024 43 mins

Most of the albums so far in my father’s collection were of popular artists from the US. This record is the first of four my dad had from an orchestra leader who reportedly was from England, featuring a trumpet player, who reportedly has the same name as the guy who writes all the liner notes for the orchestra leader. Meanwhile, there were a number of musicians who really recorde

Volume 198: Big Band Themes

Oct 13 2024 33 mins

Here’s an album filled with some of the biggest big band jazz orchestra leaders there ever were. And they’re the songs that each leader was most identified by. It’s also a special promotional copy with a Cleveland area connection, which is probably why it’s in my dad’s collection. Plus it brought back some memories of TV commercial gold. So get ready to hear tunes that in

Volume 197: Jazzy James

Oct 06 2024 32 mins

Back to one of my father’s favorite trumpet players. This time, a little later in his career. It’s as if the years have slightly mellowed his sound, and he blends in more with the band. But there’s almost never any trouble recognizing when this musician is front and center, because he had one of the smoothest sounds around. So, get ready to hear one of the best known and easi

Volume 196: Pavarotti for Pauline

Sep 29 2024 43 mins

Today, the day this episode drops, would have been my mom’s 87th birthday. Earlier today, I dropped ten roses on her gravestone to signify how many of those birthdays we have had without her. I’ve said this before, that my mom’s spirit is within this album collection just as much as my dad’s, and it’s artists like this that I know she enjoyed very much. My parents did get

Volume 195: Delta Dixieland

Sep 22 2024 34 mins

This is truly an interesting find in my dad’s collection. We know by now my dad’s love for the Dixieland style of music. So it’s not surprising I found this record in the stacks. But what was surprising is that this recording was made by seven musicians that had never played together before. You most certainly can’t tell. And they’re not exactly household names. So, get

Volume 194: Ray's Honey

Sep 15 2024 35 mins

I’m not sure why, but the episodes that feature Ray Conniff music have been among the most popular…by far. Maybe because his music is so enjoyable. Maybe because his music is laid back and brings back memories of better times, or what are assumed to be better times. But Conniff’s music had a very unique sound because of how he treated vocals in many of his songs. He used voic

Volume 193: Birdland Stars Tour 2

Sep 08 2024 32 mins

We slide now quite nicely into the second record of a two album set of popular New York City Jazz musicians taking their music around the U.S. In fact, according to the album back cover, they performed in front of 200 thousand fans during 37 concerts in 25 cities. This is one of those concerts. So get ready to hear the East-West Coast All Stars with music refined at a famed jazz cl

Volume 192: Day Dreaming

Sep 01 2024 33 mins

Here is the first of two from Doris my dad had. And it's just some downright pretty music. She's got a soft, delicate voice. I can see why Colonel Potter fell in love with her. But that's a story for later in the episode. A car accident cut her budding dancing career short, but she showed off her voice on radio in Cincinnati and ended up attaining fame in both music and movies. So

Volume 191: Master Ellington

Aug 25 2024 46 mins

This album is the epitome of extended music. These melodies had been recorded before, but the technology of the 78 RPM kept them limited in length. Once the opportunity to put more music on one disk became available with the new Long Playing technology of the 1950s, most musicians were adding more songs to put together an album. Not this episode’s featured artist. He kept adding