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Spinning My Dad’s Vinyl

Frank Vaccariello

Extensive and Eclectic and we hear them as is with skips, scratches, 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,

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38:19

Volume 230: Golden Memories of Radio Record 6

Spinning My Dad’s Vinyl ·

2025/05/25

We now pull out the final disk of this six record box set filled with memories of radio days past. Back in the days before television when you had to imagine what was being described. To the days of live happenings. Expected and extremely unexpected.This last LP features many news recordings that were captured as they happened from 1920 through the early 1940s. So get ready to hear history as it unfolded live to countless listeners around the globe during a time of financial turmoil and approaching

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Volume 229: White Album Front Half

Spinning My Dad’s Vinyl ·

2025/05/18

It’s a 78 RPM Sunday. These episodes should probably more appropriately be labelled spinning my dad’s dad’s shellac. In the old days of records coming on 10” disks with one song per side, it made collections rather large. So in order to organize them, record stores would sell large books that you can put several records in. The same you would do with photos. They came with a generic front cover and several sleeves to slip the disks into. My dad has a couple of these albums. I decided to pull out

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Volume 228: A Bobby Happy Mothers Day

Spinning My Dad’s Vinyl ·

2025/05/11

Happy mothers day. This one’s for my mother who we lost ten years ago this month. As we go through this large record collection, I can tell which records my mom might have picked out. This is one of them. It’s a self-titled debut album from a singer who already had a hit single and a starring role in a popular TV show. He was just a bit of a heartthrob. So get ready to hear a singer and actor who gave up that life to save lives in Volume 228: A Bobby Happy Mothers Day. More information about this

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Volume 227: Beethoven's 4th & 5th

Spinning My Dad’s Vinyl ·

2025/05/04

We now pull out the third record from this seven disk box set. A record that features a relatively unknown work AND probably one of the most famous works in music history. Talk about a dichotomy.This is music from the immortal Ludwig Van Beethoven. His symphonies live on in performances to this very day. Plus I decided to play three movements from each symphony. I thought this joint needed some classing up. So, settle in and get ready to hear the man who is said to have set music free in

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Volume 226: Hirt's Dixieland Horn

Spinning My Dad’s Vinyl ·

2025/04/27

Here’s a trumpet player we’ve heard from before. He was a favorite of my dad’s. He’s also a favorite of mine. He’s loud and powerful. He plays at just below a blatting level, but keeps in control with some of the most intricate music.He performed at halftime of the first Super Bowl and owned his own New Orleans jazz club. So get ready to hear a musician who could shift gears to play many styles of music, even being critiqued for that skill, in Volume 226: Hirt's Dixieland Horn. More information

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Volume 225: The Standard Stoner

Spinning My Dad’s Vinyl ·

2025/04/20

We’re going to have a little extra fun with this episode. In fact, you might say I have high hopes for it.One of my dad’s, and my, favorite artists is Willie Nelson. One of my favorite holidays is the day this episode drops, and I’m not talking about Easter. Some of the most favorite songs-to-record in music history are on this album. So famous, just the songs you’ll hear have been recorded more than 63 hundred times. That’s what you call standards. And the voice who sings them? A classic! We

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Episode 225 Programming Note

Spinning My Dad’s Vinyl ·

2025/04/20

If you're tuning in to hear episode 225 of spinning my dad's vinyl, I thought I'd roll this episode out at a more appropriate time. I'm featuring Willie Nelson, who, or course, is a famous stoner on this 420 holiday. Volume 225: A Standard Stoner featuring music that has been recorded over six thousand times, rolls out at a special time. 4:20 PM Eastern. Believe me, I have high hopes for this episode. Give it a spin.

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Volume 224: Big Band Bards Record 2

Spinning My Dad’s Vinyl ·

2025/04/13

We haven’t reached into the great Franklin Mint section of my dad’s collection for a while. Most of the episodes featuring the Greatest Jazz Recordings of All Time often get blocked by YouTube. But I’ve really grown attached to this specific box set lately. It’s filled with some great and legendary jazz singers. So get ready to hear a variety of voices with various styles in Volume 224: Big Band Bards Record 2. More information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it. Credits and

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Volume 223: Mancini Movie Magic

Spinning My Dad’s Vinyl ·

2025/04/06

We now pull out yet another one of the seven Henry Mancini albums my dad had. He’s one of my favorites too.This one is a follow up to Mancini Plays The Great Academy Award Songs, the album you heard in Volume 43: Mancini and the Oscar Winners. There’s just something about his music. You just recognize the sound right away. So get ready to hear music from a composer arranger who had his hands on the scores for more than 100 big screen films in Volume 223: Mancini Movie Magic. More information about

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Volume 222: A TJB Concert Rewind

Spinning My Dad’s Vinyl ·

2025/03/30

I attended the Wednesday, March 26, 2025 Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass concert at the Goodyear Theater in Akron, Ohio. Yes, Herb is still touring at 89 years old. Yes, I was excited to see him again. Obviously, I can’t can’t record the show. That’s why I’m going to do something the FM radio stations did when I was younger. After a show, they would play the entire set list in order. Sit tight. This will be a long episode. So get ready to hear one of the most influential artists in music

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Volume 221: Every Twist You Take

Spinning My Dad’s Vinyl ·

2025/03/23

This is going to be an extra fun episode. Many of the tunes have melodies you already know. Some tunes were created for this album.The trumpet player leading the band was part of some great music history in the form of some famous big bands, including some history he claimed on his own. So get ready to hear the last living member of the original Glenn Miller Orchestra in Volume 221: Every Twist You Take. More information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it. Credits and copyrights Ray

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Volume 220: Red Hot Pennies

Spinning My Dad’s Vinyl ·

2025/03/16

Gee, imagine that! Another album featuring a trumpet player from my dad's collection. And a trumpet player we've heard from before. This time, we get to hear some great ragtime. This artist not only fronted his own band, but got his pedigree through some of the best big bands in history. So, get ready to hear a musician who had a movie made about his life in Volume 220: Red Hot Pennies. More information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for it. Credits and copyrights Red Nichols And His

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45:14

Volume 219: Bite Sized Bach Record 1

Spinning My Dad’s Vinyl ·

2025/03/09

There’s an old business saying that goes, how do you eat a whale? One bite at a time. In this episode we take several small bites and a couple of big ones from the incredible output of the composer Johann Sebastian Bach. Ahhhh Bach. And to continue that M*A*S*H connection right now in the opening, the scene goes, “Somehow... there's a mathematical precision about Bach, a complexity that adds up to actual simplicity. It goes beyond emotion.” So get ready to hear some of the more popular of the more

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Volume 218: Rock and Roll Connie

Spinning My Dad’s Vinyl ·

2025/03/02

Episode dedicated to Dino Baskovic (1974-2025)This is the third of four records from Connie Francis that my dad has in his collection. She WAS the top charting female US artist of the late 1950s and early 1960s. Her popularity was due to her voice and being able to sing in multiple languages. And she was a hit maker during the early days of rock and roll. So get ready to hear a star who was estimated to have sold more than 200 million records worldwide in Volume 218: Rock and Roll Connie. More

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Volume 217: Gerry and Chet

Spinning My Dad’s Vinyl ·

2025/02/23

Here’s an album I thought was going to be unplayable when I saw the condition of the cover. I have no idea why the back and front are completely separated. And the bigger surprise is that my dad didn’t put it back together with his usual black electrical tape patchwork. But I’m glad I didn’t overlook it because of the condition of the cover when I listened to the music it wasn’t covering very well. This was some great jazz that I didn’t mind listening to several times while I was deciding on the

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47:20

Volume 216: The Classical 216

Spinning My Dad’s Vinyl ·

2025/02/16

Talk about your complete coincidences. The numbers 2-1-6 come up three times in regards to this episode. It’s the episode number. It’s the date this episode drops. The US version of dating things. And it’s the area code of where this music was performed and recorded. Yes, I bought a lottery ticket today.Recordings of the Cleveland orchestra date back to 1928. Discogs dot com has them credited for well more than 800 either old 78 RPM records or 33 ⅓ Vinyl LPs. So, get ready to hear this 1967

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32:34

Special Volume: Nat's Very Thoughtful Valentine

Spinning My Dad’s Vinyl ·

2025/02/14

It's special Valentine’s Day episode of Spinning My Dad’s Vinyl. That means, of course, my girlfriend Karen gets to join me as we once again grab some music from one of the most romantic voices ever recorded. We featured this voice two years ago in our Valentines special and it’s the third of five Nat King Cole records in his dad’s collection. This was one of 30 albums Cole recorded for Capitol Records. So, get ready to hear the smooth velvety voice that sold more than nine million records in

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Volume 215: Single-Sided 78s

Spinning My Dad’s Vinyl ·

2025/02/09

Welcome to a 78 RPM Sunday! As I was flipping through my dad’s shellac collection looking for patterns to create a few 78 RPM episodes for this season, I found these 7 disks. What they had in common was their one-sidedness. Yup. In the early days of records, they only pressed one side. And I’ll talk about why in detail a little later. What’s most important to remember is that every one of these disks was pressed more than 110 years ago. So, get ready to hear songs that were recorded and released

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Volume 214: Badlands

Spinning My Dad’s Vinyl ·

2025/02/02

How are we only on record five of this great seven record set? Because I continue to find gold in this box set filled with legendary songs about the old west.Each record, or in this case each side of this collection had its own theme. Even with those guides, I might take a little poetic license when I name episodes like this. One side of this record is about things South Of The Border. The flip side mentions a thing or two about Legends And Sagas. Some you may know. Some have some pretty odd

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Volume 213: Ray's Marvelous

Spinning My Dad’s Vinyl ·

2025/01/26

We once again pull out the most popular orchestra leader in my dad’s collection. This is a follow-up album to a popular record my dad does not have. Both titles reference the Ira and George Gershwin tune S’Wonderful from the 1927 Broadway musical Funny Face.Of course Conniff arranged all of these standards by using a chorus singing tones and not lyrics, which created his own recognizable style. So, get ready to hear another in the great line of Space-Age composers performing music you heard on

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