[78-L] Shopping in places other than record stores^

[Julian Vein]

eugene hayhoe wrote:
United Superior (earlier Crown, the Biharis) still had a presence 
outside of record stores then as well - I picked up several of the B.B. 
King U/S titles in Krogers, for example.

Cutouts/remainders, that was the treasure; back then there were many 
more general merchandise stores, discount and otherwise and most all of 
them carried some kind of records. A store called Arlan's (the best of 
them all in this town for discounted records) had a good share of the 
Riverside catalog, 3/$1.00 plus hundreds more titles on Atlantic, Sphere 
Sound, Epic, etc. Cleanhead with Cannonball, T-Bone Walker, Big Joe 
Turner, Mose Allison, Jr. Mance, etc. Their cutouts section was larger 
than most record stores were, and records were just a small part of what 
they carried. Fabulous music at prices my lunch money could afford.

Gene
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We have in the UK what I call "rock 'n' roll" stores whose proprietors 
think they know about jazz. The LP (never 78s) stuff they carry is the 
blandest you can imagine (Brubeck, Oscar Peterson, British Trad on 
labels like Marble Arch, Pye Golden Guinea, etc). If they carry anything 
that looks half-interesting, it usually means that it's the right label, 
but the wrong artist or the right artist, but the wrong label!

      Julian Vein



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