Are there any interesting records in my grandparents' record collection?

useful thread, I can never even parse some of this stuff

Ella on Verve is definitely a keeper

Prado, Everlys, Petula Clark, Nancy Sinatra are others I'd keep

yeah Don Cherry is WRONG DUDE

Black recorded for Sun Records and played bass on Elvis's 'Blue Moon of Kentucky'

he played on a lot more than that. he was elvis's bassist throughout the sun years and the early rca years.

Yeah, the Petula Clark has a killer chorus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjuG9nstgvE

the motherlode of VNYL shipments

don draper's LP collection, currently available at auction here:

"Glad All Over" from the Dave Clark Five, "The Music Man" Broadway performance, "The Supremes at the Copa," Nat King Cole's "I Don't Want to be Hurt Anymore."Al Hirt's "He's the King," "Elvis Sings How Great Thou Art," "Whipped Cream and Other Delights" by Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass, Errol Garner's "Paris Impressions," "The Red Mill" by Victor Herbert and "Up in Central Park" by Sigmund Romberg, "Some Blue-Eyed Soul" by The Righteous Bros., "Sketches of Spain" by Miles, "The World's Greatest Jazz Band," "Johnny Hodges, Billy Strayhorn and his Orchestra," "Ambassador at Jazz" by Max Kaminsky, "Subways of Boston" by The Coachmen, "Ben-Hur" soundtrack, "Think Ethnic" by the Smothers Bros., "Streets I Have Walked" by Belafonte, "John Gary Sings Your All-Time Favorite Songs," "Four Freshman and Trumpets," "Where the Action Is" by The Ventures and "Annie Got Your Gun" soundtrack.

∙Perez Prado And His Orchestra - Dance Party (Parade (3) - SP 325)
∙John Barry - Goldfinger (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (United Artists Records - UAL 4117)
∙Nancy Sinatra - These Boots Are Made For Walkin' (Reprise Records - 0432)

i'll take those, thanks

I liked that Bill Black tune. That was actually a B side though, to "That Ole Buttermilk Sky," a minor hit.

sorry ilx, I considered your suggestions but ended up only keeping a few records that struck me as interesting. so

http://i.imgur.com/GSrmIC5.jpg?1

the sleeve notes wax rhapsodic about the supposedly hi-tech piano roll transfer process:

Early in 1959 an unusual event took place at RCA Victor. One of the nation's finest recording studios was placed in readiness for a most extraordinary "date." A meticulously tuned piano was carefully placed in relation to a group of the most sensitive microphones available. At a a spoken signal to the producer the familiar strains of the Rhapsody in Blue began to sound in the studio—exactly as played by George Gershwin himself. But there was no one seated at the keyboard!http://i.somethingawful.com/forumsystem/emoticons/emot-iiam.gif The keys were depressed and released by a ghost, in this case a Duo-Art piano roll which Gershwin had cut decades before. It was a "recording" replete with subtle diminuendos and crescendos which gave further proof that he was, in addition to being a creative genius, an extraordinary pianist. It was, in fine, a recording-of-a-recording—but it emerged as the highest fidelity recording of Gershwin ever achieved since his all-too-few disc performances were captured before the present era which enables us to impress wide-range sound on tape. The performance we hear on this record is a remarkably accurate re-creation. It is not the sound of an automaton at the keyboard—rather, it is a play-back of exactly what Gershwin did on that day back in the Twenties when his performance was engraved into the piano roll forever.

the Gershwin performances only account for about 15 minutes of audio, so the rest of the LP is padded out with rolls recorded by a bunch of stride and ragtime pianists.

http://i.imgur.com/bz32Amt.png?1

like a lot of records in my grandparents' collection, this was released on a budget label. apparently Royale acquired the back-catalogues of defunct record labels and re-released them under its own imprint. there's no session info on the label or sleeve aside for the the "recorded in Europe" tagline.

http://i.imgur.com/MVt3uHQ.jpg?1

this is the only record of theirs that seems to be remotely collectible (according to popsike), but I'm not really sure why (baby boomers buying back mementos of their childhood?). Design was a division of Pickwick.

I also kept the Frank Petty piano record I mentioned upthread.