NOTE — in the event you've been handed these pages as hard copy, the URL is www.ExactingEditor.com/Records-and-Tapes.pdf ______

Cassette Tapes and 33 1/3 rpm LPs for Resale, arrayed by decade, artist, or year of release

Although ExactingEditor.com was never meant to be a classic-media commercial platform, I've become linked with various collections over the years and would love to find a good home for many of those analog musical items.

The same goes for COMIC BOOKS — a list of which (prices included) can be called up using http://www.exactingeditor.com/Cartoon-Comics.pdf

Please write [email protected] for the most recent WORD version — WITH PRICES — of the following "Records and Tapes" Adobe listing.

And I'd like to do business only with Northern Virginia and District of Columbia residents. That means (a) no mail shipments or checks; and (b) collectors will be able to handle and examine any items they are inclined to buy...

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1990s Cassettes — Pop, Rock, Soul, Cinema

BABY FACE — "For the Cool in You" — Epic (a division of Sony Music) ET 53558

BLUES TRAVELER — "Blues Traveler" — A&M Records 75021-5308-4

BUGS BUNNY on BROADWAY, by The Warner Brothers Symphony Orchestra — Time Warner 7599-26494-4 — and including "The Rabbit of Seville," "Baton Bunny," "What's Opera, Doc?" and (of course) the Merrie Melodies Closing Theme

EL DeBARGE — "Heart, Mind & Soul" — Reprise Records 9362-45375-4

HOLLYWOOD SOUNDTRACKS (by Blockbuster Video, from 1992-95) — Sony Music Special Products 33807-76087 — featuring Jimmy Cliff, Harry Connick Jr., the Crash Test Dummies, Gloria Estefan, Aretha Franklin, the Pogues, and more

1 LUTHER VANDROSS — "Power of Love" — Epic (a division of Sony Music) ET 46789

MADONNA — "Something to Remember" — Maverick 9362-46100-4

MARIAH CAREY — "Daydream" — Columbia CT 66700

MARY CHAPIN CARPENTER — "Stones in the Road" — Columbia CT 64327

NATALIE COLE — "Unforgettable, With Love" — Elektra 7559-61049-4

THE LA'S (L.A. Mavers) — "The La's" — Polygram 422-828202-4

TONY BENNETT — yes, even he became part of the "MTV Unplugged" series — Columbia CT 66214 (Sony Music Entertainment)

UB40 — "Promises and Lies" — Virgin Records 0777 7-88229-4-3

1980s Cassettes — Pop, Rock, Soul, Dance

ALPHAVILLE — "Forever Young" — Atlantic Records 80186-4

2 ANITA BAKER — "Rapture" — Elektra/Asylum 60444-R

FINE YOUNG CANNIBALS — "The Raw & the Cooked" — MCA IRSC-6273

HERB ALPERT / TIJUANA BRASS — "Bullish" — A&M Records CS-5022. In a review for the "AllMusic" website, Richard S. Ginell nailed it: "[T]his album has nothing to do with the old TJB, for the music is the same high-tech pop...with synths galore, a frantic electronic dance beat on many numbers, and none of the original Brass on the sessions... The best moments are the whomping title track, the hyperactive 'Struttin' on Five,' and the optimistic 'Life Is My Song.' But to call this a 'Tijuana Brass' album is bordering on consumer fraud for the faithful — though, on its own terms, it is a fairly live slice of '80s pop."

JOE JACKSON — "Blaze of Glory" — A&M Records CS 5249. "Rant and Rave," "Down to London," "Evil Empire," "Nineteen Forever," etc.

JONI MITCHELL — "Chalk Mark in a Rain Storm" — Geffen M5G 24172. "Lakota," "Cool Water," "The Beat of Black Wings," "Snakes and Ladders," and six others

LUTHER VANDROSS — "The Night I Fell in Love" — Epic FET 39882

LUTHER VANDROSS — "Any Love" — Epic OET 44308

LUTHER VANDROSS — "The Best Of..." — Epic E2T 45320

THE OUTFIELD — "Play Deep" — Columbia Records CT 40027

XTC SKYLARKING, produced by Todd Rundgren — Geffen (as of 1986, still a division of Virgin Records) GEF M5G 24117

Tapes by a Durable Band, in order of release year

GRATEFUL DEAD — from 1971 (no title, unless you count this pitch at the bottom: "DOUBLE PLAY ... Equal to TWO ALBUMS") — Warner Brothers J5 1935. "Bertha," "Big Boss Man," "Big Railroad Blues," "Wharf Rat," and eight others. Warning: These early '70s pre-Dolby cassettes were cursed by mushy treble.

3 GRATEFUL DEAD FROM THE MARS HOTEL — 1974, though this cassette is a 1989 edition — Grateful Dead Records GDC40074. "Loose Lucy," "Scarlet Begonias," "Money Money," "Pride of Cucamonga," and four others

GRATEFUL DEAD — "Dead Set (2 Albums on 1 Tape)" from 1981 — Arista AC9- 8112. "Samson and Delilah," "Friend of the Devil," "Brokedown Palace," "Passenger," "Loser," and 10 others

GRATEFUL DEAD — "Reckoning" (Double Play Equal to Two Albums), also 1981 — Arista ARPDK 2-1053. "To Lay Me Down," "Ripple," "Rosa Lee McFall," "It Must Have Been the Roses," and a dozen others

GRATEFUL DEAD — "Without a Net," FIRST SET — 1990 Arista AC2-8634-1. "Althea," "Bird Song," "Cassidy," "Mississippi Half-Step Uptown Toodeloo," and three others (just three? Well, the tracks do lean toward the lengthy).

GRATEFUL DEAD — "Without a Net," SECOND SET — 1990 Arista AC2-8634-2. "China Cat Sunflower," "I Know You Rider," "Slipknot!," "Dear Mr. Fantasy," and six others

$100 for all six of the above Grateful Dead cassettes

1970s Cassettes — Pop, Rock, Country

4 LED ZEPPELIN Three — Atlantic Records CS 19128. "Immigrant Song," "Since I've Been Loving You," "Bron-Y-Aur Stomp," "Tangerine," etc.

THE KINKS — "Muswell Hillbillies" — Rhino R4 70934 re-issue (Original was 1971)

STEELY DAN — "Greatest Hits" — MCA Twin-Pak MCAC2-6008. "Reeling in the Years," "Show Biz Kids," "Pretzel Logic," "Haitian Divorce," "Peg," "Josie," etc.

CLASSICAL plus HISTORIC JAZZ

EMANUEL AX and YO-YO MA — "Brahms Sonatas for Cello and Piano" — RCA ARE1- 7022 (Warner Music UK Ltd.)

JAZZ OF THE 1920s — "Greatest Hits" — RCA Victor 09026-68734-4 — a 1997 release but every track on here is from the 1920s. Bix Beiderbecke, Benny Good- man, Earl Hines, Jelly Roll Morton, Fats Waller, Paul Whiteman, and 11 others

VIVALDI: THE FOUR SEASONS — "Concerto Amsterdam" with Jaap Schroder — Intersound Inc. CS 2021

Time to move from one analog realm to another. All of the rest of the items being offered for purchase, from here to the end, are 33 1/3 LP Albums, which have come to be called "vinyl" by novelty-seeking Millennials. The quality ranges from good to very good — but only Judy Collins is factory-sealed.

Since I'm not selling to anyone who doesn't live in, or occasionally drive through, D.C. and Northern Virginia, there's no chance of something happening to these records due to shipment or a buyer receiving a worn-out version...

33 1/3 rpm Records — the Original Vinyl, displayed by release year or spotlight artist

1959 ($5.00) — LOUIS PRIMA & KEELEY SMITH on BROADWAY — Coronet. "True Stereo" CXS-110. "Pizza and Beer," "Dig that Crazy Chick," "Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!,"

5 "Bring Forth the Light," and six others. Incidentally, the marquis-style title on the cover spells Smith's first name as "Keeley," while every other usage on the record itself and the container leaves out the third "e" and calls her "Keely."

1961 ($20.00) — ENOCH LIGHT — Reeds and Percussion featuring the Command All-Stars — Command Records RS 33-820 Mono. "Bewitched," "Badinage," "Stom- pin' at the Savoy," "She's Funny That Way," and eight others. I bought this LP at the age of 18 and, for the next 10 years — even though it wasn't stereo — used it to test turntables, speakers and headphones. So it's appropriate that Wikipedia salutes Mr. Light as "one of the first musicians to go to extreme lengths to create high-quality recordings that took full advantage of the technical capabilities of home audio equipment of the late 1950s and early '60s," including "multi-track recording that would become commonplace in the ensuing years..."

"He arranged his musicians in ways to produce the kinds of recorded sounds he wished to achieve, even completely isolating various groups of them from each other in the recording studio. The first of the albums produced on his record label, Command Records, Persuasive Percussion, became one of the first big-hit LP discs based solely on retail sales." And yet, in sync with the cynical maxim that no good deed goes unpunished, "His music received little or no airplay on the radio, because AM radio, the standard of the day, was monaural and had very poor fidelity." These quotes are from the Wikipedia article on Enoch Light as it existed last year; and so is this extract, abrim with irony...

Light released 25 albums over 12 years (1959–71), with two of them reaching #1 on the U.S. Billboard album chart. He holds the record for having the most charting LPs without having a Top 40 single, as reported by Casey Kasem on the American Top 40 broadcast of October 14, 1978.

1964 ($10.00) — The Original Hootenanny: America's Greatest Folksingers on One Album for the First Time! — Crestview (a division of Elektra) CRV-7806. Bud and Travis, Theodore Bikel, Oscar Brand, Judy Collins, The Dillards, Bob Gibson, Judy Henske, Will Holt, The Limeliters, Ed McCurdy, The Travelers 3, and Josh White.

1964 ($25.00) — CHUCK BERRY — St. Louis to Liverpool — Chess LP-1488 Mono. Explains Bruce Eder on the AllMusic site: "This album puts the lie to the popular myth that Chuck Berry's music started to fade away around the same time that the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, et al. emerged covering his stuff. His song- writing is as strong here as ever. Side One is packed with now-familiar fare like

6 'Little Marie' (a sequel to 'Memphis, Tennessee'), 'No Particular Place to Go,' 'Promised Land,' and 'You Never Can Tell'... Side Two includes a bunch of tracks...that never get reissued or compiled anywhere."

1967 ($10.00) — THE TREMELOES — Here Comes My Baby — Epic LN 24310 Mono

1967 — ALL MITCH RYDER HITS — "A Bob Crewe Production ... Manufactured and Distributed in Canada by Quality Records Limited" of Toronto — New Voice stereo NVS 2004. "Breakout," "Little Latin Lupe Lu," "Too Many Fish in the Sea," "Devil With a Blue Dress On," "Jenny Take a Ride," "Sock it to Me — Baby!," "Good Golly Miss Molly," "I'd Rather Go to Jail," and five others. Has original plastic...

$150 for this hyper-energetic "white soul" Mitch Ryder Vinyl

1972 ($5.00) — LIGHTHOUSE — Sunny Days — Evolution / Stereo Dimension 3016

1972 ($10.00) — LIGHTHOUSE LIVE — "this album is a live recording of a concert we did at Carnegie Hall on February 6, 1972... It was a snowy night outside and a warm responsive full house inside!" — Evolution / Stereo Dimension (a division of Longines-Wittnauer) 3014. A two-record set, although total playing time is just 61 minutes divided among the 10 tracks: "One Fine Morning," "Old Man," "Sweet Lullabye," "Eight Miles High," and six others. It's one of the rare double- LP sets where sides 1 and 4 are on one disc and 2 and 3 on the other. Why? So you could arrange an auto-changer turntable to mimic the concert's flow!

1973 ($5.00) — LIGHTHOUSE — Can You Feel It — Polydor 5056

1977 ($20.00) — BLONDIE — Plastic Letters — Chrysalis Records CHR 1166. "Fan Mail," "Bermuda Triangle," "Contact in Red Square," "Love at the Pier," nine others

1986 — JUDY COLLINS — Her Finest Hour — Double LP as a pair of re-issues, namely "the 2nd and 5th releases of Judy Collins' extensive career at Elektra Records..." — Warner Special Products for Pair Records Inc. PDL 2-1141

$125 for Judy's UNOPENED double-vinyl commemoration

1987 ($20.00) — EARTH, WIND & FIRE — Touch the World — Columbia AL 40596 — "System of Survival," "Money Tight," "Victim of the Modern Heart," "Evil Roy," "Here Today and Gone Tomorrow," the title tune, and four others.

7 1988 ($50.oo) — KYLIE MINOGUE — "The Locomotion" — Geffen 0-21043 — 12-inch disc spinning at 33 1/3; yes, but this is a so-called Maxi-Single with three versions of the title tune plus an extra song. Scoffers remain from 30 years ago, but did you know that Kylie "is recognized as the highest-selling Australian artist of all time by the Australian Recording Industry Association"?? Well, now you do.

And the last one before we end with seven-LP set — TIFFANY and "I Think We're Alone Now" — MCA 23793; another "Maxi-Single," from 1987, price $20.00.

A Remarkable LP Array — JANIS IAN, 1968 to '81

(1) The Secret Life of J. Eddy Fink — 1968 — Verve (part of MGM) FTS-3048

(2) Present Company — Capitol Records SM-683 — "Recorded in San Francisco, November-December 1970"

(3) Stars — 1974 (The Rainbow Collection) — Columbia Records PC 32857

(4) Between the Lines — 1975 (The Rainbow Collection) — Columbia PC 33334 — and probably her best-selling LP. "The Come On," "At Seventeen," "Bright Lights and Promises," "Tea & Sympathy," "Lover's Lullaby," and six others. Ms. Ian was a brilliant songwriter. Her lyrics spoke to a lot of us Boomers who were born in the middle 1950s, dodged the late '60s chaos, yet still declined to fit in later on.

(5) Aftertones — 1975 (The Rainbow Collection) — Columbia PC 33919

(6) Night Rains — 1979 — Columbia PC 36139. Beautiful opener, "The Other Side of the Sun," followed by "Fly Too High," written for the movie Foxes. By this time, Ian is past the bird-flipping acid-cocktail social-scorn stage and could be lyrical and even sweet. On the front cover, she smiles. The back cover has her stretched out on a bench, looking at us sideways, and more or less at peace... William Ruhlman on the AllMusic site judged "this album more engaging on the surface than her recent releases, but less compelling. As a commercial move, Night Rains failed to chart in the U.S., but was an international best-seller."

(7) Restless Eyes — 1981 — Columbia Records FC 37360. One of those LPs where, on the back, a commentator (either a PR promoter or an articulate fan) discusses each track and wraps a saga around the whole LP. Ian is quoted: "I

8 made a conscious decision to write only for myself and a guitar, or myself and piano, so these songs could have an effect with or without a band." Could be part of the reason that, on this LP cover, Janis Ian looks ecstatic.

$350 for all seven of the above Janis Ian LPs

NOTES and REMINDERS

This document came to you from Frank Gregorsky, who prefers to carry out any transaction in the suburbs of Northern Virginia. Am just not set up to do fulfillment by mail (SORRY!). In some cases, we can meet in the D of C.

Anyone interested in one or more items can get an updated Word version of this pdf file that will include prices for EVERY musical item. This early 2020 web edition has pricing only for the 33 1/3 rpms and six Grateful Dead tapes.

CONTACT OPTIONS — [email protected], voicemail 703 281-1674

The copy of Enoch Light's Reeds and Percussion is mono. If you like that item, try to get the stereo version from this Amazon reseller. They want only one-third of the price being asked for the mono version you saw on Page 4. ______

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