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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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32:06

Volume 193: Birdland Stars Tour 2

Spinning My Dad’s Vinyl ·

2024/09/08

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 club named after one of the best saxophonists that ever lived in Volume 193: Birdland Stars Tour 2. More information

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Volume 192: Day Dreaming

Spinning My Dad’s Vinyl ·

2024/09/01

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 get ready to hear one of the most popular and acclaimed singers of the 20th century in Volume 192: Day Dreaming. More

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Volume 191: Master Ellington

Spinning My Dad’s Vinyl ·

2024/08/25

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 to the songs on this album. Just when you think the tune is getting ready to conclude, it heads off in a different

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Volume 190: Billy's Million Sellers

Spinning My Dad’s Vinyl ·

2024/08/18

Here’s an artist dwelling in my father’s collection we haven’t heard from yet. We’ll be hearing selections from the first of three Billy Vaughn records he had. This record isn't just filled with the pop hits Vaughn would arrange and record for orchestra to be played on those easy listening radio stations. These are standards. In fact, the hit recordings of these songs sold a lot of records. So, get ready to hear 7 tunes that were recorded over 1,200 times combined over the years in Volume 190:

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Volume 189: Jim's Java

Spinning My Dad’s Vinyl ·

2024/08/11

The four letter album title in large yellow font along with the same color silhouette of a pair of hands playing a trumpet over a black background immediately sets the tone for this LP. It’s familiar music played a little more sparsely than you are used to hearing it. But fear not, there are some great treatments of music you may know on this disk, and I hope you enjoy it as much as I did listening to this unfamiliar trumpet player. So get ready to hear a honeyed horn from a musician who actually

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Volume 188: The Brothers Dorsey Shine

Spinning My Dad’s Vinyl ·

2024/08/04

Let’s get back to some of the big band and early swing my dad listened to a lot. And this record is a real find because of the two main musicians.One played a brass instrument, one played reeds. One ended up just a little more famous than the other. But they were brothers. And they had their famous beginnings in a band with the family name that recorded in the early to mid-1930s. So get ready to hear a compilation of some of the last studio recordings for this sibling duo that began on 78 RPM

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Volume 187: Texas Landscapes

Spinning My Dad’s Vinyl ·

2024/07/28

Like I’ve mentioned before, my dad liked his cowboy music too. So, we’ll go back to a box set where we’ll pull out the fourth of its seven records.The title of each of these sides is Deep in the Heart of Texas and Western Landscapes, hence the mashup title of this episode. Four songs from side one were all big hits and reference our second biggest state. The selections from side two are lesser known but paint a beautiful picture of the old west. So get ready to hear what is really Tumbling

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Volume 186: Best of TJB (Happy Birthday to Me)

Spinning My Dad’s Vinyl ·

2024/07/21

We're going to take a little side road along our musical journey for this episode. It's not something I often do, especially in my youth, but I'm going to make a big deal out of my birthday this year, since it actually falls on a day I publish my episodes.62 is not a milestone. There is no special celebration with my high school classmates, since next year we'll be celebrating at our 45-year reunion. In fact, I better get busy and call a meeting since I am currently the chair of the reunion

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Volume 185: Golden Memories of Radio Record 5

Spinning My Dad’s Vinyl ·

2024/07/14

Let’s jump back into one of my favorite box sets from my dad’s collection. We will listen to selections from both sides of the second to last record in this six-disk set. I have often said I would have loved to have been around in the early days of radio. There was such a pioneering spirit in the way to entertain and inform. I know this technology made the world a smaller place. It was also basically just the newest way to sell the latest product. So, gather around your home receiver and get ready

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Volume 184: Connie's Sing Along

Spinning My Dad’s Vinyl ·

2024/07/07

Almost everybody likes to show off their singing skills whether they have some or not. Karaoke bars have made a killing off that theory for decades.Back in the 1950s and 60s, there were a couple of TV shows that got viewers to sing along with them. Of course Mitch Miller was also all the rage with his albums. This audience participation album is performed by the first woman in history to reach No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1960. It includes songs most of you should know because they have been

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Volume 183: Six Pages of Patti on 78

Spinning My Dad’s Vinyl ·

2024/06/30

Let's finish the first half of the year by turning up the speed. Let’s make it a 78 RPM Sunday.What better voice to do that with than one who sold over 100 million records during a six-decade-long career. She topped the Hot 100 FOUR times and had several songs in the top 10 and 20 over the years. In fact, she was the top-charting female vocalist and best-selling female artist of the 1950s. She was also an early pioneer of a specific recording technique. So, get ready to hear the woman often

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Volume 182: Beethoven's 1st & 2nd

Spinning My Dad’s Vinyl ·

2024/06/23

My dad had plenty of records featuring large orchestras playing classical music on both 33 ⅓ RPM vinyl LPs and 78 RPM Shellac records.The Reader’s Digest liner notes for this seven record box set starts off…quote…the nineteenth century was just opening in Vienna when the fist of an implacable genius knocked like destiny upon the doors of music. unquote. They were, of course, talking about the immortal Ludwig Van Beethoven. His symphonies live on in performances to this very day. In fact we saw the

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Volume 181: Dixieland Stars for Fathers Day

Spinning My Dad’s Vinyl ·

2024/06/16

So, Dad…your last fathers day was 2019. You died that December. In those four and a half years since, you have been dearly missed, thought of often and always toasted at family get-togethers. I still use a lot of your tools. But no…I still don’t know where that sledgehammer went. I have your Willie the trumpet playing Hobo Melody Music maker music box where I can see it every day. I’ve replaced the batteries twice so far. And these albums keep me connected to you, your memories, and the life you

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Volume 180: Hit Makers

Spinning My Dad’s Vinyl ·

2024/06/09

When it came to how popular a band’s music was, it was the charts that told you. It was the charts that determined radio station song lists and how often they changed. While maybe not quite all of the songs on this record made the charts, even though that’s what the album title hints at, all of the artists were on the charts at one time or another. So, get ready to hear music makers that were high up in a specific list at one time or another in Volume 180: Hit Makers. More information about this

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Volume 179: Viva the Latin Beat

Spinning My Dad’s Vinyl ·

2024/06/02

I’m not sure the person who gathered the music for this record understood what the assignment was. This is not at all what I expected the music to sound like after seeing the name of the album and the text on the cover. I mean, who hasn’t enjoyed that Latin sound from Guy Lombardo, Billy May, Ray Anthony, and Joe Leahy? Good thing there’s a song by Sergio Mendez here to lend the recording some credibility. The closest comparison I can come up with is that the music on this record is light and

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Volume 178: Headliners

Spinning My Dad’s Vinyl ·

2024/05/26

Here’s an album I came across while looking for a specific artist for an earlier episode. I wasn’t familiar with some of the musicians and most of the music on this record. But it represents an interesting time frame in music. Sort of between bebop and rock and roll styles seeing the most spots on the charts. There’s also one country music star here as well. The artists I recognized I knew were deserving of having their names big and bold on the venue’s marquee in the late 1950s. So get ready to

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Volume 177: Sammy Record 2

Spinning My Dad’s Vinyl ·

2024/05/19

Here’s the second record of a two disk set that spent as much time among my own records as it did my dad’s. There was a point where neither one of us remembered whose collection it actually belonged in. Like I’ve said in the past, my dad and I had similar taste in music. The featured artist is just as much among my favorites as he was my dad’s. I still remember sitting in the Richfield Coliseum awestruck at what I was witnessing him do on the stage. And I witnessed that performance with my dad and

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Volume 176: For Mama on Mothers Day

Spinning My Dad’s Vinyl ·

2024/05/12

So, mom...your last mother's day was in 2015 just three weeks before you died. In those nine years since, you have been dearly missed, thought of often and always toasted at family get-togethers. I still use your recipes and even some of your kitchen tools to cook our meals. And your granddaughter still helps me make cavatelli and cassatelles. My kitchen always smells good. Almost like yours…sometimes. Your memory is just as much a part of this record collection as dad’s. Because you were always

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Volume 175: JJ is Blue

Spinning My Dad’s Vinyl ·

2024/05/05

When you think of bebop and other improvisational jazz, your mind usually hears a trumpet or saxophone as the lead. We rarely think about that instrument with the long slide that makes some pretty funny sounds as taking on any serious solo work, because, the thinking went, there was no way to be as intricate with some of the fast solos in that type of jazz. The trombone player you are about to hear proved them all wrong. And made a pretty good name for himself in that trumpet and sax dominated

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Volume 174: Birth of the Blues Record 2

Spinning My Dad’s Vinyl ·

2024/04/28

One of the box sets that goes almost ignored is on the bottom row of my dad’s collection. It has a somewhat misleading title, but it includes some of the most classic standards in music.Once again, we have no record of the musicians, the arrangers, the conductor or conductors, just that the box set is part of a much larger series put out by a company who produced radio shows…and hocked watches. The title definitely doesn’t prepare you for the instrumentation used to perform this classic music, but

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