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My Music Journal 2025: August 18, 2025

 


Monday, August 18, 2025

Time: 8:20 PM
Song: It’s Gonna Work Out Fine
Artist: Ike & Tina Turner
Mode of Consumption: Listening to Super Oldies of the 60s Vol. 3 vinyl album.

Link to song: https://open.spotify.com/track/2vGVafns1VhbbhyIKi5VtL?si=4173e0c293d343b9

I’ve been working on getting ready for a sale over Labor Day weekend by cleaning and pricing albums. I’ve also been reorganizing them a little bit.

“Are you having a breakdown or something like the guy from ‘High Fidelity’?” Jodi asked the other night. I had stacks of records piled around the basement.

I started with the several bins of records that I price for a dollar. I now have separate box for soundtracks. I also rearranged so that I had a box for compilation albums. From there, I did a box of random female artists, country artists, comedy, random rock and other genres, Christmas and Gospel, and then two boxes of instrumental.

I tried to also group albums by the same artist together. It’s interesting the artists that were clearly big at one point who don’t seem to attract new vinyl buyers.

Johnny Mathis – I have nearly twenty of his albums, and I have never sold one individually.

Herb Apert & The Tijuana Brass – I have sold an album of his or two, but not many.

Wayne Newton – Not a lot of his, but that pile seems to be growing.

Barbara Streisand – People loved her once, but not so much now.

Then there are the Band leaders of yesteryear.

Guy Lombardo, Tommy & Johnny Dorsey, Percy Faith, and of course, the collections put out by Lawrence Welk.

It's a continuing learning experience of former and current music tastes. 

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