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Music You Can’t Hear On The Radio
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THE ENDANGERED RECORD PROJECTLast Updated April 23, 2007 Records - long-playing, high-fidelity, mono then stereo, two-sided 12-inch discs that revolved around a turntable 33 1/3 times per minute - were the dominant format that introduced the world to virtually all the new music created between the early 1950s and 1987. Many of the records produced in that period have been reissued on CD and people like me who continue to hold on to the original album are lazy, cheap and/or sentimental about the album covers. But others have never, or at least not yet, made it to CD, and as fewer people maintain their turntables or record collections are in some danger of being forgotten. And, forgotten with them will be some great songs and unusual versions of songs more well-known. I like my CD collection but I love my record collection. If I didn't host a radio show, I might not have kept all of them, but I do and I did and as a result have about 3500 of them. Some of them I draw on regularly for my show, but others have managed to stay quietly on their shelves for years without darkening a turntable. This year, I am trying to both play more of them on the air and keep track of those I do. I have a vague fantasy that someday I, or someone else, will release a set of these songs as CDs or whatever technology settles in to replace them in a manner similar to the Anthology of American Folk Music Harry Smith compiled in 1950 to rescue music that had been recorded on 78rpm records by putting them in a boxed set of 4 spectacular LPs. In that case, whole genres of music were saved and transferred to new generations and parts of the country and the world that otherwise might well have never learned of them. In this case, the task is much more modest but maybe still worthwhile. Please let me know if as you read this evolving list you see records that you know have been reissued on CD. Other comments are welcome too. - John Weingart Great Songs From LPs Not on CD Played on Music You Can't Hear On The Radio: A DICK AND ANNE ALBIN An Edsel On The Used Car of Life JOHN ARPIN Ragtime Turtle Dove TOM AKSTENS River Song ALIOTTA HAYNES Rockerfeller Blues ADDISON After We Bomb ANY OLD TIME STRING BAND I Bid You Goodnight ARM AND HAMMER STRING BAND We're Up Against It Now MIKE AULDRIDGE Age B BOTTLE HILL Bosque Country Romance HOWIE BURSEN Green Willis DUCK BAKER Mama's Getting Younger C LEN CHANDLER To Be A Man THE CHICKEN CHOKERS Looking For Money CORN BRED God Don't Work The Night Shift Anymore CORN BRED Log Cabin In The Sky SONNY CURTIS The Real Buddy Holly Story MARCEL DADI Song for Jerry Marcel Dadi and Friends GUITAR WORLD LP ALIX DOBKIN O.K.O.Y.? F FRUMMOX Man In The Big Hat G DAVE & KAY GORDON King of the Whole World CLAIRE HAMILL All The Cakes She Baked Him Stage Door Johnnies KONK WEST LP BILL AND BONNIE HEARNE Fusion JOHN HERALD The Fire Song K L HARRY LIPSON Weenie Weenie Ru M RICHARD MEYER The January Cold P R S PETE SEEGER Oh, Had I A Golden Thread T W KIM WALLACH I Found A Peach in Orange New Jersey HEDY WEST Pans of Biscuits Z |
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