[78-L] Karajan - Brahms

[David Lennick]

Did you know that the proprietor of The Record Runner was John Landis? Not the 
movie director..the former afternoon announcer on WNED-FM. I just saw him last 
week. That was a great store. "Phonolog" was the big catalog, laid out like a 
library dictionary. (I remember Harmony House as well, but I found a lot more 
good stuff at Car City Classics.)

dl

On 10/13/2011 11:24 PM, DAVID BURNHAM wrote:
> You must have an English Stereo Treasury pressing. The Canadian and American
> ones I've had are horrible..the Canadians are cut at too low a level and the
> American ones are like those cheesy New Jersey lps from the 70s, complete with
> warps and ripped labels.
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> dl
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> Yes, mine is an English pressing.  I don't know that I've ever seen an American London pressing.  In the '70s I used to go down to "The Record Runner" in Buffalo to buy whatever London recordings I wanted because here they were often Canadian pressings but in the States, they seemed to always be English pressings.
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> That store always had the best scenario for a browser.  There classical section wasn't arranged by composer as is usual, but by label;  so all of the London records were together arranged by record number.  If you wanted a specific record, they had the large catalog, (I forget what it was called but the one with the blue loose-leaf pages), so you just looked up the number of what you wanted and found it that way.  But, as you can imagine, browsing through these label sections I found all sorts of stuff which I wasn't looking for but just stumbled on.  I would buy a lot more CDs if they would display them this way, (so it's probably just as well that they don't).  When I used to go to the "Harmony House" in Detroit, I would focus in on labels which never came to Canada, like Westminster, Capitol, Vanguard Classics and MCA Classics.  But to find them, I had to go through the dealers' catalogs or open one of the CDs to find out what other CDs were
>   advertised in the back of the booklets - a pretty tedious process and I still missed some.
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> db