[78-L] Nice CD find..where was it when I needed it?

[David Lennick]

Not OT, just about every title here was issued on 78.

I occasionally look in at one of the public libraries when I'm in the 
neighborhood, to see what's on the sale table. And what should turn up today 
but a double Collectors Choice set, "Instrumental Gems of the Fifties". The 
sign over the table said $2 per CD but the librarian said "Gimme a buck" (do I 
look that decrepit? <http://www.civiclightoperacompany.com/dlennick.html>).

Anyway, gang, the discs were in fine shape, and the sound is great on them. 
Only one fake stereo in the whole batch (Joe 'Fingers' Carr's "Down 
Yonder)..even some that could have been stereo (Moonglow & Theme From Picnic) 
weren't. Both sides of Shifting Whispering Sands were included (with the usual 
terrible slow down and join, which could easily be edited and overlapped). "The 
Enchanted Sea" (Martin Denny), "Peter Gunn" (Ray Anthony) and "Patricia" (Perez 
Prado) were in stereo, although I think the wrong "Patricia" may have been used.

And where the golly gosh stinky poo heck was this last year when I was doing 
year-by-year compilations of the 50s hits?

Nice to know that it's still out there, unlike so many other Collectors Choice 
sets.
http://www.amazon.com/Instrumental-Gems-Fifties-Various-Artists/dp/samples/B00001ZWD0/ref=dp_tracks_all_2#disc_2

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