Records, records and more records.

[Chas]

 

[Silver Dollar]

I wouldn't mind getting my ears around those for sure.

 

[The Wolf]

Man, back when record albums were albums!
Nice collection.

Sincerely,
The Wolf

 

[HarpPlayerGene]

I LOVE the graphics on those!

 

[Gilboa]

I LOVE the graphics on those!

I second that!

I had a huge collection but annoyingly had to leave them behind when moving to England.

 

[davidraphael]

VERY nice...

Are they normal 12" records or are they 10"?

 

[Chas]

Lolly Loisides spotted this one for me...

 

[Silver Dollar]

I'm drooling again. I caught a couple of good ones in a garage sale once. I found a collection of Django records in 78 RPM. I also found some Billie Holiday and Johnny Smith.

 

[LizzieMaine]

The artist most known for promoting that particular style of album cover design, Alex Steinweiss, is still very much alive and well at the age of 93. He was the art director at Columbia beginning in 1939, and while he didn't "invent the album cover," he was the most influential artist to work in that field during the Golden Era. His albums are well worth collecting, even above and beyond the records inside.

 

[Gilboa]

The artist most known for promoting that particular style of album cover design, Alex Steinweiss, is still very much alive and well at the age of 93. He was the art director at Columbia beginning in 1939, and while he didn't "invent the album cover," he was the most influential artist to work in that field during the Golden Era. His albums are well worth collecting, even above and beyond the records inside.

Thank you for that information! I'll be hunting ...

 

[RichardHannay]

The artist most known for promoting that particular style of album cover design, Alex Steinweiss, is still very much alive and well at the age of 93. He was the art director at Columbia beginning in 1939, and while he didn't "invent the album cover," he was the most influential artist to work in that field during the Golden Era. His albums are well worth collecting, even above and beyond the records inside.

He's great. Also check out Jim Flora. I hope to find some of his covers some day...

 

[Chas]

 

[Anthony K]

*Whipes drool from mouth*

Chas, your collection is amazing!

 

[Bassman]

I have those King Cole, Basie and Mckinney's albums too!
I recently digitized the (unbroken) discs.

 

[Chas]

 

[Chas]

 

[vitanola]

The artist most known for promoting that particular style of album cover design, Alex Steinweiss, is still very much alive and well at the age of 93. He was the art director at Columbia beginning in 1939, and while he didn't "invent the album cover," he was the most influential artist to work in that field during the Golden Era. His albums are well worth collecting, even above and beyond the records inside.

Goodness!

When I think of the thousands of 1940's albums that I have sliced up for the record sleeves...

I found six or seven of the "Cugie" Rhumba albums in my last group of junk records. As I already have a reference and two playing copies (my standard for any record that I really like) the albums were sliced and the records were relegated to "Victrola Stuffers"

Starting in December I'll be slogging through a group of seventy or eighty pick=up truck loads of records that I purchased form a dealer's estate a few years ago. My inspection suggests that it is a moderately select lot (not too many red label Columbias).

 

[Forgotten Man]

VERY nice...

Are they normal 12" records or are they 10"?

Well, the rule is, most Jazz or Big Band will always be on 10" when talking 78rpm. Some have made it to 12"... not many but, Benny Goodman's "Sing, Sing, Sing" is on a 12" 78rpm.

All of those are amazing... some I haven't ever seen or known about... the Esquire album is off the hook! Great stuff... Rare to find ANY of those complete!

 

[Chas]

Thanks, yes, they're all complete with the exception of the "Drummer Boy" one. I went shopping today as well, and haven't (yet) run out of either space or money. But I am putting on the brakes for this week:

I cropped the following pic too close: in the same store I found the Decca Anthologies of "Colored Jazz" and "White Jazz". All in mint or near-mint condition.

Today I picked up a couple of rare 12" Metronome All Star Band discs; cost me a couple of sheckels. Here is one.

And two near-mint Parlophone Cotton Club-era Ellingtons.

 

[Chas]

My most unusual (rare) find; you almost never find children's albums in such nice condition; the records are mint, and the album is in wonderful shape.