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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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01:34:45

Special Volume: History of a Champion O-H-I-O

Spinning My Dad’s Vinyl ·

2025/01/22

Congratulations to the Ohio State Buckeye football team for winning their ninth national championship. If you grew up in Ohio, especially in the 1960s and 70s, you were probably an OSU fan no matter where you ended up going to college in the state. My parents certainly were and they instilled the love of Buckeye football on us as well. During the early 1970s, the Bucks’ offense featured a back who is still the only two-time winner of the Heisman Trophy, given to the country’s best player each year

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Volume 212: Inauguration Italian Style

Spinning My Dad’s Vinyl ·

2025/01/19

My dad seemed to have an album for every occasion. I can’t tell you how appropriate the timing is to play this record for you. Oh wait…yes I can…and will. This is truly in the vein of “the more things change the more they stay the same.” And it’s all portrayed using some of the main characters of an all time classic movie. Tomorrow the United States of America swears in its 47th president, who, of course, was also the 45th president. We will not be making any commentary on the results of the most

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Volume 211: Percy's Cuba

Spinning My Dad’s Vinyl ·

2025/01/12

I’ve mentioned this a few times on this show. The Latin beat was extremely popular when my dad was a teenager and beyond. This record is a combination of taking that Latin beat, this time from a specific country, and arranging it with a plush orchestra.The orchestra conductor who arranged this music was considered the leader in a genre that infiltrated hundreds of radio stations in the 1960s. It’s still a term widely used to describe this sound. So get ready to hear the captain of the easy

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29:58

Volume 210: Jonah Style

Spinning My Dad’s Vinyl ·

2025/01/05

Welcome to season five.We start out 2025 with a trumpet player you’ve heard twice before. This is the last of his records in my dad’s collection. When I first came across him, 165 episodes ago, I realized quickly that I had been missing out on listening to another great trumpet player in my youth. His previous episodes are on my play-often list. The arrangements on this record call for his playing to be smooth and lyrical, but we know he had a famous solo that was brash and beautiful. So, get ready

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Volume 209: Dixie Dorsey

Spinning My Dad’s Vinyl ·

2024/12/29

Welcome to the last episode of season 4. You know you can get close to new years eve and NOT have to listen to Guy Lombardo. WE are going to finish out 2024 on a really upbeat note. In fact, there’s nothing like that two-beat music to send us out dancing. Our featured artist has a slightly more famous brother, but he certainly made a big name for himself as well. And on this record, he features music from the Big Easy, which was among my dad’s favorite styles. So get ready to hear some energetic New

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Volume 208: A 78RPM Christmas

Spinning My Dad’s Vinyl ·

2024/12/22

'Twas the night before Christmas when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, well, except for my dad who was putting together the air hockey game, or large electronic toy crane, or other present that would be one of ours the next morning. I have two younger brothers and a sister. Those are some of my memories of Christmas past, but I wonder what some of my dad's memories of those past holidays were when HE was a kid. And did those memories have a soundtrack filled with some of the

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Volume 207: Good Country Record 1

Spinning My Dad’s Vinyl ·

2024/12/15

Here’s a fun find from this collection. My father really loved his country music too besides all that jazz, pop and classical. This is the kind of country and western music that was kind of between the fiddle-led twang of early country and the days of outlaw country, although you will hear one of those outlaws from his early days first. This album is filled with memorable songs and some great memories that went beyond those songs. You know how music triggers those. So, get ready to hear several

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Volume 206: Beethoven's 3rd

Spinning My Dad’s Vinyl ·

2024/12/08

We pull out the second record from this seven disk box set. This one is filled with an incredible performance of a long piece of music from an incredible composer.The Reader’s Digest liner notes for this seven record box set starts off "the nineteenth century was just opening in Vienna when the fist of an implacable genius knocked like destiny upon the doors of music." They were, of course, talking about the immortal Ludwig Van Beethoven. His symphonies live on in performances to this very

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Volume 205: Big Band Chevy

Spinning My Dad’s Vinyl ·

2024/12/01

Of course big bands and cars go together. The first car radio was offered by Chevrolet in 1922. As the medium became more popular and more practical for use in a vehicle, it was more than likely large jazz orchestras filling those airwaves.This album is a really good collection of some great star band leaders along with some great versions of big hits. So get ready to hear music that was probably coming out of the dashboard for those early drivers in Volume 205: Big Band Chevy. More information

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Volume 204: Riviera Paradise

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2024/11/24

For our last stop during World Tour November we head to a region of the world known for its Beaches and Casinos. To where the rich have played for centuries. Three different country’s musical styles are included on this record; Spain, France, and Italy.In fact, the music you will hear was composed by a prince of the holy Roman Empire. His scores create musical landscapes in your mind. So, get ready to hear music that gets us into a Mediterranean mood with Volume 204: Riviera Paradise. More

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Volume 203: Classic Hungary

Spinning My Dad’s Vinyl ·

2024/11/17

Next stop on our World Tour November is also a stop back to the 19th century. Back to one of the music centers of the world at the time. Budapest. Home of the Danube River and a beautiful opera house. All of that and more made it a popular tourist stop for that era. And the two composers you will hear from were partly responsible for that popularity as well. So, get ready to hear an important orchestra in its own right perform music from this landlocked central European country in Volume 203:

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Volume 202: Grand Canyon

Spinning My Dad’s Vinyl ·

2024/11/10

We continue World Tour November with music about a location I’ve actually been to. It’s on the list as being one of the seven natural wonders of the world. If you’ve ever visited that big hole in the ground in the southwestern United States, sometimes words escape you. That’s why we have composers like Ferde Grofe who skillfully describes the wonder through the lens of black notes on a white sheet of paper. I have been absolutely mesmerized by this album since I found it, especially since the

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Volume 201: 80 Days with Passepartout

Spinning My Dad’s Vinyl ·

2024/11/03

We begin a month of travel-related music in what I am calling World Tour November. And what better way to begin that month than with a tour of the world all in one album. This episode will serve as the month’s Overture, so to speak. The movie, based on a Jules Verne novel, was an epic screen hit that won eight Academy Awards. Not only was the lead character a trailblazer in the film, but the entire production was considered a trailblazer itself in many ways. So, get ready to hear the soundtrack that

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Volume 200: Frank's Earworms Take 2

Spinning My Dad’s Vinyl ·

2024/10/27

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 biggest hits or even necessarily among my favorites, but they had a catchy melody or rhythm that I couldn’t get out of my head. So get

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Volume 199: Tea and Trumpets

Spinning My Dad’s Vinyl ·

2024/10/20

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 recorded this album. Who they were is a budget record label mystery. So, get ready to hear some pretty melodies while you’re

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Volume 198: Big Band Themes

Spinning My Dad’s Vinyl ·

2024/10/13

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 introduced the bands that played them in Volume 198: Big Band Themes. Correction: Lawson's Milk Company was founded in Cuyahoga

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Volume 197: Jazzy James

Spinning My Dad’s Vinyl ·

2024/10/06

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 easily recognized trumpet players ever in Volume 197: Jazzy James. More information about this album, see the Discogs webpage for

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Volume 196: Pavarotti for Pauline

Spinning My Dad’s Vinyl ·

2024/09/29

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 to see him once in concert. He is one of the world’s most recognized tenors, even years after he has been gone. So get ready to

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Volume 195: Delta Dixieland

Spinning My Dad’s Vinyl ·

2024/09/22

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 ready to hear what it must have sounded like rollin’ down the Mississippi River in the late 19th and early 20th century in Volume

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Volume 194: Ray's Honey

Spinning My Dad’s Vinyl ·

2024/09/15

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 voices as instruments as they sang wordless notes. But on this record? They use their real words. So get ready to hear some sweet

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