That is interesting, Bill. And I do remember those centres, now you mention them like that. I still think covers more, though. (And I wish Spellcheck didn’t do some of what it does to my typos!).
Yeah, Atlantic also had Aritha. Although outside its jazz, the first other ones I bought were Ray Charles.
And of course Columbia for Miles, Monk, & Mingus …
Doug
> On Feb 21, 2018, at 2:39 PM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Thanks again, Sheila. Also, Patrick, Barry, Doug.
>
> Barry, I suppose I do celebrate the material, not perhaps as visually as it
> seems to come across. The visual becomes an awareness. So you don’t
> literally stare at the rotating disc each time you play the record. But you
> know what is going on. You do look when you first buy, intently, and then
> it becomes a recognition thing as much as a celebration. Remember playing a
> pile of records, one suggesting the next until your lounge room or bedroom
> is strewn with plastic and cardboard. In the washout later, maybe even
> next day, you do the colour match-ups, the sliver slides and the re-storing
> till next time. It certainly was an active process, playing records,
> setting up for the aural plunge.
>
> Doug, I respect your Blue Notes, although I don’t have any. Atlantics I
> just think of a swirling red, white and green label, Ahmet Ertegun’s wasn’t
> it? But when I check my early Zeppelin and a Ray Charles, I am reminded
> that before that the label was green with a silver band and a circular
> silver swirl.
>
> Bill
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