Showing posts with label record. Show all posts
Showing posts with label record. Show all posts

Saturday, April 16, 2016

Record Store Day 2016

It's Record Store Day and I couldn't resist stopping by Record Archive to see what they had going on. Their celebration was bigger than ever. Not only did they have live bands but they had food trucks too.

Inside were the $1 record bins I enjoy sorting through.

Wedding music seemed to keep popping up this time.

Here are a few of the $1 records I picked up. One for my Bert Kaempfert collection and... well... I like banjos.

I've been looking for these Mitch Miller holiday records for a few years now. Mitch Miller is originally from Rochester, NY! I was pretty happy to find them and for $1!

Friday, March 11, 2016

New record cabinet & collecting vinyl

My parents gave me my birthday present a couple months early. It's a vintage record cabinet! Ever since my old record player broke, I've had my eye out for something like this. Now I have a record player for the living room and the dining room.

The front of the cabinet opens to reveal the record player, stereo and even an 8 track! This record player can hold multiple records which is so nice. I don't have to keep flipping a record or swapping it out every few minutes.

Hugo wants to know where the dog treats are stored.

When I posted to Facebook how excited I was about my new record cabinet, someone who was looking to grow their record collection asked me to share my vinyl collection. Well, I couldn't fit it all into a Facebook comment so here it is...

These are not all the records I have but rather the types of records I collect. Here are a few of my current artist records. Basically if I really like an album, like almost every song, then I get the vinyl record of it.

Most of my records are vintage and found at yard sales and thrift stores. I like a lot of oldies... particularly folk groups... like Kingston Trio and Peter Paul and Mary. That is why I find the movie A Mighty Wind hilarious.

And I love this particular type of instrumental music... I don't know what the name for it would be... trumpets and guitars I guess. Billy Vaughn, Bert Kaempfert, Herb Alpert and The Ventures.

I also love albums that are instrumental but not from any particular band. More so, they have a theme, such as Music for Dining or Fiddles by Firelight. They are perfect background music to have playing while I'm puttering around the house.

The last type of records I look for are soundtracks. I love soundtracks in general (See here, here and here), so that has carried over to my record collection.

Tuesday, December 22, 2015

More Christmas Vinyl - spinning green

I added a few more albums to my Christmas record collection. I am espcially thrilled about the Elvis one because it is a clear green record.

The cover with kittens makes me grin too.

How cool is this green record?!

Spinning the new clear green Elvis Christmas album. With pug toenails clacking in the background.

A video posted by Jenny Cisney (@ljc) on

I have my eye out for some other Christmas records that I'd like to get. The Carpenters Christmas Portrait, Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton Once Upon a Christmas, and Christmas with Dino.