Dan Fogelberg - Home Free CD 72 w Souvenirs LP 74 w Captured Angel LP 75 w Nether Lands LP 77 w Twin Sons Of Different Mothers LP 78 w The Innocent Age 2LP 80 81 w Phoenix LP 79 w Windows And Walls LP 84 w High Country Snows LP 85 w Exiles LP 87 w Greatest Hits LP 82 w The Very Best Of CD 01 w The Collection CD 01

 Well it's harvest time once again after many years of finding these vinyl/CD at Goodwill.  The only album I kept was the Phoenix album since the only songs I knew from him were on it:  Longer and Face The Fire which is odd because they played both songs quite a bit but the later never made it to any greatest or best hits compilations also included.  Looking at the lyrics to that song now finally--I think I can guess why:                  

I hear the thunder

Three miles away

The island's leaking

Into the bay

The poison is spreading

The demon is free

And people are running from

What they can't even see

Face the fire

You can't turn away

The risk grows greater

With each passing day

The waiting's over

The moment has come

To kill the fire

And turn to the sun

They'll take your money

And then take your health

To line their pockets with

Unequaled wealth

These men are under

The power of gold

We won't be safe until we

Shut them down cold

Face the fire

You can't turn away

The risk grows greater

With each passing day

The waiting's over

The moment has come

To kill the fire

And turn to the sun

The people came to the capitol town

One hundred thousand of them

Laid their hearts down

They screamed in anger

And broadcast their fears

Just to have them

Fall on deaf ears

I am kind of regretting giving all those vinyl back now as some of the songs are really sticking!

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MICHAEL BREWER - BEAUTY LIES LP 83

 This is a special request for ClassicMusic20 for Michael's recent passing.  He had mentioned a good rip was not available and this debut solo album was produced by Dan Fogelberg.  Hearing that got me to finally bring to harvest all my Goodwill albums by him as main post this week.

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VA - IT'S A RESTLESS NATION CD 93

Got this for Slim's recent departure on a knee-jerk-quick-buy off Discogs (BTW anyone GOT Slim's 'Thank You Fans!' last CD to share?).  Includes:  The Buck Pets, Zuzu's Petals, The Hang Ups, Sister Psychic, Giant Sand, BWF, Mind Over Four, Uncle Sam, Dumpster Juice, Pigpen, Band Of Susans, Dashboard Saviors, Bob 'Slim' Dunlap and Bloodstar.  

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VA - LET YOURSELF GO! LP 67

 Here's another one from my buy up in MN/WI area recently, includes:  Tony Bennett, The New Christy Minstrels, Jerry Vale, Bobby Hackett, Steve Lawrence, Barbara Streisand, Robert Goulet, Julie Andrews, Ray Conniff, Eydie Gorme, Johnny Mathis and The Brothers Four.

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VA - Honky Tonk Heroes - The Music That Inspired Gram Parsons CD w Bonus The Neon Bread Tape - Studio Rehearsals NY 60's 2CD

 I added this to meet a minimum for a Discogs seller and then added the old rehearsal tape CD's from Butterboy blog.  I think I may have ripped some GP but didn't check.  Includes:  Buck Owens & His Buckaroos, George Jones, Porter Wagoner, The Louvin Brothers, Faron Young, Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison, Ray Price, The Everly Brothers, Hank Williams, Hank Thompson, Hank Snow, Hank Locklin, Ernest Tubb, Carl & Pearl Butler and Flatt & Scruggs.

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VA - SOLID GOLD ROCK 'N ROLL VOL. 2 LP 72

IT'S ONLY ROCK & ROLL:  Another fine vinyl assortment of tunes for this series.  Includes:  The Crew Cuts, The Diamonds, Jay & The Techniques, Paul & Paula, Phil Phillips, Joe Dowell, The Mindbenders, The Platters, Jerry Lee Lewis, The Del-Vikings, Bruce Channel, Dickey Lee, Lesley Gore & Ray Stevens.

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The Original Dorsey Brothers Band - Spotlight On LP 62 w Tommy Dorsey & Frank Sinatra - Stardust tape 40 41 42 92 w Freddy Sateriale AHO - Tribute To Tommy & Jimmy Dorsey LP w Bob Eberly & Helen O'Connell with Jimmy Dorsey AHO - Remember Jimmy LP 62

 For this week's big band selection we have the Dorsey brothers.  Per Discogs:  

Real Name:  Thomas Francis Dorsey, Jr.

Profile:

Tommy Dorsey (born November 19, 1905, Mahanoy Plane, Pennsylvania, USA - died November 26, 1956, Greenwich, Connecticut, USA) was an American trombonist, trumpeter, composer, conductor and bandleader of the Big Band era. He often worked with his brother Jimmy Dorsey in New York and helped the Swing Era grow in the US, he was an important bandleader during that time.

Real Name:  James Dorsey

Profile:

Saxophonist, clarinetist and trumpet player, (born February 29, 1904, Shenandoah, Pennsylvania, USA – died June 12, 1957, New York City, New York, USA), he often played with his brother Tommy Dorsey and helped the Swing Jazz Era grow in New York. He died just months after his brother, both during their sleep.

Next week will end this big band mini-series with a record for me of TEN vinyl boxset of big band!

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WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART - GREAT MEN OF MUSIC 4LP 75 w ERIKA KOETH, MOZART, RICHARD STRAUSS - SINGS THE ARIAS OF LP 58 w comp. LP 78

 I usually let these classical boxsets stay in the Goodwill bins since they usually sound better on remastered CD and no need to preserve them but being half Italian and having an obscure movie about him that I like--not Amadeus 1984) I grabbed this and found other vinyl similar to add to this post.

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DU BLOG 7 inch GROUP 1-6-2025

A couple of requests got me into ripping singles lately so I subsequently got through two stacks of unripped seven inch singles (leaving one more stack for a later date) over the holiday break and only showing the ones with covers as there are many more per the list I will make below.  Some real gems here from Goodwill over the years like the three REM Records country folk singles, a McDonalds 7 inch series called "Menu Music Chant" having hits songs from Terri Gibbs, Donnie Iris, One Way & Rufus, new 7 inches I've used to fill-in shipping minimum order requirements, and a couple of cool spoken word songs like The Triumph of Man" from the 1964-65 New York World's Fair through Traveler's Insurance Companies as well as Les Crane's classic "Desiderata" so I added from the other week The San Sebastian Strings classic tune "My Friend The Sea" to make three.  Couple of bands with different names on the A and B sides perhaps to satisfy record companies such as The Murmaids (instantly recognized their "Popsicles & Icicles" song) while on flip they are The Murmaids Band and other one is The Mama's And The Papa's and on flip "Got A Feelin'" as "Mama's And The Papas".  Here are the other names:  Anodyne 7 96, April Stevens with Henri Rene AHO 7 51, Bing Crosby & Frank Sinatra 7 56, Brainstorm 7 76, Canned Heat (added this to repost) 7 70, Charlie Monroe 7 REM, Culture Club 7 82, Dan Hartman 7 78, Das Tapfere Schneiderlein 7, Dead End Cruisers 7 98, Deathly Fighter 7, Diana Ross 7 70, Die Sieben Raben 7, Elephant's Memory 7 70, Esco Hankins and Jackie 7 REM, Expose 7 87, Frank Sinatra w Billy May AHO 7 61, Fredna Parker with Frank Harris Orchestra 7, Gnomes Of Zurich 7 85, Hansel & Gretel 7 (this and the other German Kids 7 inches will be the kids music post this week), Hot Monkey/Grufters/Linda Heck 7 94, Indian Bingo 7 90, Jimmy Lodgsdon 7 REM, Johnn Billy West 7 71, Jurgen Drews 7 72, Les Crane 7 71, Norman Greenbaum 7 69, O'Jays 7 72, Palace Music 7 93 96, Peter Thomas Narrator with The Hartford Symphony Orch. dir. by Fritz Miller (The Triumph Of Man-both sides as one file) 7 84 85, Rank Strangers 7 97, Rapunzel 7, Romeo Void "Say No" 7 81, Stuart Hamblen 7, Tennessee Ernie Ford 2x7 57, The 5th Dimension 7 68, The Anasazis 7 09, The Boogie Man Orchestra featuring Mel Hayes 7 75, The Departure 7 04, The Functional Blackouts 7 05, The Hondells 7 64, The Tee Set 7 69, Three Dog Night 7 69, Tyrone Davis 7 76, Tip Toe Through The Tulips 7 unknown artist and Zehn Kleine Negerlien.  Enjoy!

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