Brag About Your Vinyl Collection

I believe that I have most direct to disc lp's ever released to include the 45rpm's. One of these days, I think I'll catalog my collection. I'm sure I must have some disc's that are worth some bucks. I know I got a lotta of outta prints. My mother's best friend and my first tutor left me her collection of opera recordings. Thinking about all that I own and haven't listened to in years . . I'm startin to get excited! Thanks.

Mono and Stereo copies of the Butcher Album in very nice condition.

Thousands of first releases (mostly rock/jazz/blues) from 1961 to current.

I hope one of my kids gets interested fast.

Bill, you've been allowed to breed?

I'm in FL this week and I found a Prestige RVG/DG white label promo copy of Red Garland with John Coltrane - of course I already UPS'd the records back to Pittsburgh and I can't think of the title - as well as Cal Tdjader at the Blackhawk on Fantasy red vinyl and a few other things at a place I found in Ft. Lauderdale. A good trip so far!

A week ago at Goodwill I picked up Miles Davis' "Miles Ahead," which wouldn't be that special except for the fact that it's the version with a white woman and her child on the cover in a sailing boat. According to the Wikipedia entry about it:

'Miles was reportedly unhappy about the album's original cover, which featured a photo of a young white woman aboard a sailboat. He made his displeasure known to Columbia executive George Avakian, asking, "Why'd you put that white bitch on there?" Avakian later stated that the question was made in jest.'

The cover really does look totally out of place for a Miles Davis album, as it was a cheap attempt to market his music to the emerging jazz tastes of the white up-and-comings.