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The Album Project

With Mom and Dad moving to Raleigh this summer I got the family collection of record albums and Dad's old record player. The record players is a nice Pioneer PL-518 from 1977 and with a little work it's back up, running, and sounds great. The Stereo system and speakers are my old JVC System from college 1990 so absolutely nothing about this is less than 30 years old at this time. Which should fit nicely with the collection that is heavily weighted between 1960-1967.

I have not heard most of these in over 20 years, so it will be interesting to hear them again and see what I can find of interest. How do they sound? Does the music stand the test of time? What else can be found now that we have this thing called...the internet.

12/20/2023

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Stats

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Dad was born in 1937. He was 33 in 1970 and living in DC so I'm going to assume this a typical collection for the era.
There are about 250 LPs ranging between 1954-1990 with a heavy weighting for albums 1960-1967.
By Album Count his favorite artist is Jim Reeves with 8 Albums followed by Roger Whittaker with 7.
The prices to sell or purchase in 2024 have a Median Price of $3.00.
The most valuable Albums are Elvis, Santo and Johnny, and The Big Sky Singers.

Albums by Year

Albums by Cost

Cost to Purchase in 2024
Prices from the Discogs Website.
An Average price of $4.70 and a Median of $3.00
Highest Value Records

Albums by Artist

Artist and Album Finds

So what interesting things have I stumbled upon?

Cover	Notes
	Ronnie Aldrich 1963, The Magnificent Pianos of Ronnie Aldrich 1968, For Young Lovers Instrumental, Easy Listening, Cocktail Music A couple of great albums to start the project. These albums almost pour the martinis just by playing them. Excellent sound quality. It's a shame that only a couple of albums were ever released on CD. This is great mood music. 1-5-2024
	Bill Anderson (Whispering Bill) From this Pen 1965 Country / Easy Listening A compilation Album of songs written and sung by Bill Anderson. Ok, we found the country music, but it sounds just so different than modern country. No twang, and more like easy listening and country music had a child. The stand out song for me being "Saginaw Michigan". Just a good story song with a great twist ending. Still, the songs are just a bit to country for my current tastes. 1-5-2024
	Chet Atkins The Other Chet Atkins, 1960 Chet Atkins and Hank Snow Reminiscing, 1964 Guitar Country, 1964 Country Instrumental It's good. It also doesn't sound anything like modern country music. The guitar is electric, but there is no distortion so the vibe is much more of an easy listening feel. Wikipedia has over 60+ Albums listed for him that don't even include his collaborations. I'll be interested to share this one with some people that "don't like Country Music" to see how they would categorize it. Amazon has a fair amount of music on CD for Chet and I found a "5 album set" that I purchased to add to my work background music collection. I found it found that the set is two CD's that include 5 record Albums. Just shows how much more CD's hold and how short Albums used to be. 1-11-2024
	The Big Sky Singers 1964 Folk A Family Favorite. Still good. The Beach Boys meet the Kingston Trio. An unknown album unless you lived on the west coast in 1964. Now only known because Bruce Innes would later join the group "The Original Caste" who's big single "One Tin Soldier" would chart for many years. I keep meaning to make an entire page about this album as there are some interesting connections, but I'll leave this here as a stub for now. 1-11-2024
	The Brothers Four 1962 Folk Another Kinston Trio like group. Still great with some wonderful songs like "Frog went a courtin". One I remember fondly from my childhood. From Wikipedia it was interesting to learn that the "Brothers" are Frat Brothers from the University of Washington. They had 19 released Albums. They faded as Folk Music faded, but as of 2024 they still tour and even have a web site. Personally I think they just needed some more original songs and fewer covers. Checking the collection via YouTube it's almost all covers, and the later songs are just not as good. That being said, this album is great. 1-11-2024

List View

#	Artist	Title	Year
1	Aldrich, Ronnie	For Young Lovers	1968
2	Aldrich, Ronnie	Magnificent Pianos of Ronnie Aldrich, The	1963
3	Anderson, Bill	From This Pen	1965
4	Arnold, Eddy	Best of Eddy Arnold, The	1967
5	Arnold, Eddy	Everlovin, World of Eddy Arnold, The	1968
6	Arnold, Eddy	Last Word in Lonesome, The	1966
7	Arnold, Eddy	My World	1965
8	Arnold, Eddy	Somebody Like Me	1966
9	Atkins, Chet	Chet Atkins and Hank Snow Reminiscing	1964
10	Atkins, Chet	Guitar Country	1964
11	Atkins, Chet	Other Chet Atkins, The	1960
12	Big Sky Singers	Big Sky Singers, The	1964
13	Black, Bill	Bill Blacks's Greatest Hits	1963
14	Blackwood Brothers	Hallelujah Meetin	1975
15	Blackwood Brothers	Hymns of God	1975
16	Blackwood Brothers	Learning to Learn	1976
17	Blackwood Brothers	What a beautiful Day	1975
18	Blue Ridge Quartet	Sings the old time Gospel	1972
19	Booker, Bob	First Family, The	1962
20	Britt, Elton	Sixteen Great Country Performances	1971
21	Brothers Four, The	Greatest Hits	1962
22	Browns, The	Sing Songs from the Little Brown Church	1962
23	Buitar, Bonnie	Bonnie Guitar	1966
24	Carle, Frankie	Golden Touch, The	1960
25	Cash, Johnny	Heart Of Johnny Cash, The	1968
26	Cash, Johnny	I Walk the Line	1964
27	Charles, Ray	Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music	1962
28	Chuck Wagon Gang	16 Country Gospel Favorites	1983
29	Clark, Roy	Roy Clark Live	1972
30	Clark, Roy	Superpicker	1973
31	Cline, Patsy	Patsy Cline's Greatest Hits	1980
32	Cline, Patsy	The Patsy Cline Story	1963
33	Cole, Nat King	Million Dollar Memories	1990
34	Cole, Nat King	Unforgettable	1953
35	Conlee, John	Rose Colored Glasses	1978
36	Cramer, Floyd	Country Piano-City Strings	1968
37	Cramer, Floyd	Floyd Cramer Plays Country Classics	1968
38	Davis, Skeeter	Cloudy, with Occasional Tears	1963
39	Disney	Adventureland Steel Band	1976
40	Eddy, Duane	Twang a Country Song	1963
41	Ellis, Ray	La Dolce Vita	1961
42	Fargo, Donna	The Happiest Girl in the Whole USA	1972
43	Fender, Freddie	Freddie Fender	1975
44	Ford, Tennessee Ernie	Spirituals	1957
45	Ford, Tennessee Ernie	The Lusty Land	1955
46	Fox, Virgil	Plays the Classics	1972
47	Fox, Virgil	The Entertainer	1974
48	Frickie, Janie	After Midnight	1987
49	Gardner, Dave	Ain't That Weird	1961
50	Gardner, Dave	Did You Ever	1962
51	Gardner, Dave	It's all in how you look at it	1964
52	Gardner, Dave	Kick Thy Own Self	1960
53	Gardner, Dave	Rejoice, Dear Hearts	1960
54	Gatlin, Larry	Love is Just a Game	1977
55	Gayle, Crystal	The most Beautiful Songs of Crystal Gayle	1981
56	Gibson, Don	I wrote a Song	1963
57	Gilley, Mickey	That's All That Matters to Me	1980
58	Gilley, Mickey	The Songs We Made Love To	1979
59	Gleason, Jackie	Music, Martinis, and Memories	1954
60	Gleason, Jackie	The Gentle Touch	1961
61	Greene, Jack	All the Time	1967
62	Greene, Jack	Love Takes Care of Me	1968
63	Greene, Jack	There Goes My Everything	1967
64	Haggard, Merle	The Best of Merle Haggard	1979
65	Hall, Tom T.	Tom T. Halls' Greatest Hits	1972
66	Hampton, Lionel	Lionel Hampton at the Vibes	1964
67	Harrington, Bob	The Chaplain of Bourbon Street	1966
68	Hirt, Al	Honey in the Horn	1963
69	Hirt, Al	The Greatest Horn in the World	1961
70	Hirt, Al	They're Playing Our Song	1966
71	Humperdinck, Engelbert	Release Me	1967
72	Ink Spots, The	Spotlight on the Ink Spots	1962
73	Jackson, Wanda	Blues in My Heart	1965
74	Jackson, Wanda	Love Me Forever	1963
75	James, Harry	You Made Me Love You	1966
76	James, Sonny	Close-Up Sonny James	1969
77	Jones, George	Love Bug	1966
78	Kingston Trio, The	The Kingston Trio	1958
79	Kingston Trio, The	The Last Month of the Year	1960
80	Lee, Brenda	Too Many Rivers	1965
81	Levant	Levant Plays Gershwin	1955
82	Lewis, Jerry Lee	Original Golden Hits Volume III	1971
83	Locklin, Hank	3 country Gentlemen	1963
84	Locklin, Hank	Hank Locklin sings Hank Williams	1964
85	Locklin, Hank	Happy Journey	1962
86	London Festival Orchestra	Film Spectacular	1963
87	London Festival Orchestra	Film Spectacular Vol. 2	1964
88	Lopez, Trini	Trini Lopez and Jonny Tores	1963
89	Lowery, Fred	Walking Along Kicking the Leaves	1957
90	Lynn, Loretta	Songs from My Heart	1965
91	Lynn, Loretta	They Don't make Em like my Daddy	1974
92	Lynn, Vera	Her World Famous Great Recordings	1983
93	Mandrell, Barbara	The Best of Barbara Mandrell	1979
94	Mantovani	Mantovani Magic	1966
95	Mantovani	The Incomparable Mantovani and his Orchestra	1964
96	Martin, Tony	Wilbur Clarks Desert Inn	1960
97	Mauna Loa Islanders	Music of the Islands	1959
98	Maxwell, Robert	Shangri-La	1963
99	McGuire Sisters	Just for Old Times Sake	1961
100	Melis, Jose	The Exciting TV Star Jose Melis	1958
101	Mill Brothers	The Mills Bros. Great Hits	1959
102	Mill Brothers	The Mills Brothers Fortuosity	1968
103	Miller, Glenn	The Unforgettable Glenn Miller	1968
104	Milsap, Ronnie	Greatest Hits	1980
105	Milsap, Ronnie	Out Where the Bright Lights are Glowing	1981
106	Monroe	The Father of Blue Grass Music	1977
107	Monroe, Vaughn	Vaughn Monroe and his Orchestra	1958
108	Mulcays, The	A Kiss in The Dark	1960
109	Mulcays, The	Happy Days! The Mulcays	1958
110	Mulcays, The	The Mulcay's Harmonicas	1956
111	Murray, Anne	New Kind of Feeling	1979
112	Nabors, Jim	Galveston	1969
113	Nabors, Jim	Jim Nabors Sings	1966
114	Nabors, Jim	Kiss Me Goodbye	1968
115	Nelson, Willie	His Greatest Hits and Finest Performances	1987
116	Newton-John, Olivia	Olivia Newton-John's Greatest Hits	1977
117	Pierce, Webb	Cross Country	1962
118	Platters, The	Encore of Golden Hits	1960
119	Pops, Boston	Pops Roundup	1962
120	Pops, Boston	The Boston Pops Star Dust	1963
121	Prado, Perez	Perez Prado and Others	1959
122	Presley, Elvis	Elvis Presley	1956
123	Price, Ray	Ray Prices All Time Greatest Hits	1972
124	Price, Ray	Touch My Heart	1967
125	Pride, Charley	Favorites	1976
126	Pride, Charley	Make Mine Country	1968
127	Pride, Charley	The Best of Charley Pride	1969
128	Rabbitt, Eddie	The Best of Eddie Rabbitt	1979
129	Re-Creation	The 5th Edition	1980
130	Reed, Jerry	Georgia Sunshine	1970
131	Reese, Della	Della	1960
132	Reeves, Jim	A Touch of Sadness	1968
133	Reeves, Jim	A Touch of Velvet	1964
134	Reeves, Jim	Distant Drums	1966
135	Reeves, Jim	Gentleman Jim	1963
136	Reeves, Jim	Jim Reeves on Stage	1968
137	Reeves, Jim	Moonlight and Roses	1964
138	Reeves, Jim	The Mellow Magic of Jim Reeves	1981
139	Reeves, Jim	Up Through the Years	1965
140	Robbins, Marty	By the Time I Get to Phoenix	1968
141	Robbins, Marty	It's a Sin	1969
142	Robbins, Marty	Singing the Blues	1969
143	Robbins, Marty	The Great Marty Robbins	1983
144	Robins, Marty	Today	1971
145	Robins, Marty	Tonight Carmen	1967
146	Rogers, Kenny	Kenny Rogers Greatest Hits	1980
147	Rose, David	David Rose and his Orchestra Play the Stripper	1962
148	Rose, David	In a Mellow Mood	1967
149	Royal Philharmonic	Hooked on Classics 1	1981
150	Royal Philharmonic	Hooked on Classics 2	1982
151	Royale Popular	Tops in the Pops
152	Sadler, SSGt Barry	Ballads of the Green Berets	1966
153	Sadler, SSGt Barry	The "A" Team	1966
154	Sandpipers, The	Guantanamera	1966
155	Santo and Johnny	Santo & Johnny	1961
156	Schafer, Kermit	All Time Great Bloopers
157	Shore, Dinah	Bouquet of Blues	1956
158	Slatkin, Felix	Hoedown	1962
159	Snow, Hank	Hank Snow and Anita Carter Together Again	1962
160	Snow, Hank	Hank Snow Sings Your Favorite Country Hits	1965
161	Snow, Hank	Railroad Man	1963
162	Snow, Hank	Songs of Tragedy	1964
163	Snow, Hank	Souvenirs	1961
164	Snow, Hank	The Southern Cannonball	1961
165	Sol Soul	Sol Soul Disco
166	Sonny and Cher	The Best of Sonny and Cher	1968
167	Spears, Billie Jo	Love Ain't Gonna Wait for Us	1978
168	Statler Brothers, The	The Country America Loves	1977
169	Statler Brothers, The	The Country America Loves	1977
170	Statler Brothers, The	The Originals	1979
171	Stevens, Ray	Get the Best of Ray Stevens	1990
172	Stone, Cliffie	Square Dances with Calls by Jonesy	1950
173	Thompson, Hank	Hank Thompson and his Brazos Valley Boys	1964
174	Thompson, Hank	Hank!	1957
175	Three Suns, The	One Enchanted Evening	1964
176	Three Suns, The	Twilight Time	1956
177	Three Suns, The	Warm and Tender	1962
178	Tillis, Mel	24 Great Hits	1977
179	Tillis, Mel	Southern Rain	1980
180	Tubb, Ernest	Ernest Tubb's Greatest Hits	1968
181	Turner, Ken	Gospel with a touch of Country	1975
182	Turner, Ken	Here Comes the Volkswagen	1972
183	Vaughn, Billy	Billy Vaughn Plays	1958
184	Vaughn, Billy	Music for the Golden Hours	1959
185	Vaughn, Billy	Sail Along Silv'ry Moon	1958
186	Wagoner, Porter	Porter Wagoner in Person	1964
187	Wagoner, Porter	The Porter Wagoner Show	1963
188	Wakely, Jimmy	Slippin Around	1966
189	Weissberg, Eric	Dueling Banjos	1973
190	Wells, Kitty	Burning Memories	1965
191	West, Dottie	What I'm Cut Out to Be	1968
192	Whitman, Slim	15th Anniversary Album	1967
193	Whitman, Slim	The Best of Slim Whitman	1981
194	Whittaker, Roger	All Time Heart-Touching Favorites	1982
195	Whittaker, Roger	Imagine	1978
196	Whittaker, Roger	Mirrors of My Mind	1979
197	Whittaker, Roger	Roger Whittaker	1975
198	Whittaker, Roger	The Best of Roger Whittaker	1977
199	Whittaker, Roger	The Last FareWell	1975
200	Whittaker, Roger	When I need You	1979
201	Wilburn Brothers, The	The Wilburn Brothers Greatest Hits	1968
202	Williams, Hank	Hank Williams on Stage	1962
203	Williams, Roger	Roger Williams The Fabulous Fifties	1957
204	Wiseman, Mac	Mac Wiseman	1967
205	Wynette, Tammy	Tammy's Greatest Hits	1969
206	Z1 - CHRISTMAS	Christmas Favorites	1964
207	Z1 - CHRISTMAS	Christmas Holidays at Radio City Music Hall	1958
208	Z1 - CHRISTMAS	Christmas in the Country	1977
209	Z1 - CHRISTMAS	Elvis Sings The Wonderful World of Christmas	1971
210	Z1 - CHRISTMAS	Everybody's Christmas Favorites	1957
211	Z1 - CHRISTMAS	Firestone Presents Your Christmas Favorites v3	1964
212	Z1 - CHRISTMAS	Have a Merry Christmas, Readers Digest	1974
213	Z1 - CHRISTMAS	Merry Christmas Special Collector's Edition	1964
214	Z1 - CHRISTMAS	Merry Christmas, Fontanna	1971
215	Z1 - CHRISTMAS	Perry Como sings Merry Christmas Music	1961
216	Z2 - SOUNDTRACK	Canterbury Tales	1968
217	Z2 - SOUNDTRACK	Cleopatra	1963
218	Z2 - SOUNDTRACK	Harper Valley PTA	1978
219	Z2 - SOUNDTRACK	Harper Valley PTA	1978
220	Z2 - SOUNDTRACK	King and I, Ed Sullivan Presents	1960
221	Z2 - SOUNDTRACK	Show Boat	1966
222	Z2 - SOUNDTRACK	The Pink Panther by Henry Manchini	1963
223	Z2 - SOUNDTRACK	The Sound of Music	1965
224	Z3 - VARIOUS ARTISTS	16 Greatest Country Hits	1976
225	Z3 - VARIOUS ARTISTS	1964 Country and Western Award Winners	1964
226	Z3 - VARIOUS ARTISTS	20 Famous Country Hits vol 4	1971
227	Z3 - VARIOUS ARTISTS	All-Time All-Star Country Hits
228	Z3 - VARIOUS ARTISTS	BlueGrass Banjos!
229	Z3 - VARIOUS ARTISTS	Country Classics
230	Z3 - VARIOUS ARTISTS	Country Hits Parade
231	Z3 - VARIOUS ARTISTS	Country Times
232	Z3 - VARIOUS ARTISTS	Dancing Until Dawn
233	Z3 - VARIOUS ARTISTS	Espana Ole!
234	Z3 - VARIOUS ARTISTS	Go With the Greats
235	Z3 - VARIOUS ARTISTS	Golden Hits
236	Z3 - VARIOUS ARTISTS	Golden Performances that will live forever
237	Z3 - VARIOUS ARTISTS	Great Original Hits of the 50's and 60's
238	Z3 - VARIOUS ARTISTS	Hawaiian Paradise
239	Z3 - VARIOUS ARTISTS	Maple on the Hill
240	Z3 - VARIOUS ARTISTS	Memories are Made of this	1990
241	Z3 - VARIOUS ARTISTS	Round-Up
242	Z3 - VARIOUS ARTISTS	Senior Prom
243	Z3 - VARIOUS ARTISTS	Stars in Stereo
244	Z3 - VARIOUS ARTISTS	Stars of the Grand Ole Opry
245	Z3 - VARIOUS ARTISTS	That Happy Nashville Sound
246	Z3 - VARIOUS ARTISTS	The Big Country
247	Z3 - VARIOUS ARTISTS	The Early Years
248	Z3 - VARIOUS ARTISTS	The Honest to Goodness Country Music Hits V2
249	Z3 - VARIOUS ARTISTS	The Pick of the Country Volume 2
250	Z3 - VARIOUS ARTISTS	The Swing Era 1938-1939
251	Z3 - VARIOUS ARTISTS	The Swing Era 1940-1941
252	Z3 - VARIOUS ARTISTS	The Swing Era 1941-1942
253	Z3 - VARIOUS ARTISTS	This is Phase 4 Stereo
254	Z4 - OTHER	A Salute to Congress	1965
255	Z4 - OTHER	John F. Kennedy Documentary
256	Z4 - OTHER	That was the week that was JFK