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Re: What are you listening to right now?
« Reply #14055 on: July 24, 2021, 10:04:05 PM »
Louis Armstrong: Satchmo Plays King Oliver



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Re: What are you listening to right now?
« Reply #14056 on: July 24, 2021, 10:06:51 PM »
Diana Krall: Live in Paris



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Re: What are you listening to right now?
« Reply #14057 on: July 24, 2021, 10:11:25 PM »
The Wonderful Sounds of Female Vocals



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Re: What are you listening to right now?
« Reply #14058 on: July 24, 2021, 10:14:03 PM »
James Taylor: Sweet Baby James



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Re: What are you listening to right now?
« Reply #14059 on: July 24, 2021, 10:17:00 PM »
Count Basie & Ray Brown: This One's for Blanton



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Re: What are you listening to right now?
« Reply #14060 on: July 24, 2021, 10:19:15 PM »
Count Basie: 88 Basie Street



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Re: What are you listening to right now?
« Reply #14061 on: July 24, 2021, 10:23:11 PM »
Lori Lieberman: Home of Whispers



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Re: What are you listening to right now?
« Reply #14062 on: July 24, 2021, 10:24:50 PM »
Words & Music: John Mellencamp's Greatest Hits streamed via Roon

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Re: What are you listening to right now?
« Reply #14063 on: July 24, 2021, 10:37:07 PM »
Jacintha: Here's to Ben



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Re: What are you listening to right now?
« Reply #14064 on: July 24, 2021, 10:48:39 PM »
I sure miss them as well. I spent many Saturdays wandering through the store on 4th and Broadway in Manhattan. Every couple of months I would head into the city with an audio buddy or two and make a day trip to Tower. Not only did they have a huge store, but they also had a gigantic Classical Clearance Annex in the building next store. You could spend a day in there alone going through aisles and aisle  of cutouts (although the name was the classical annex they eventually ended up carrying all kinds of closeout albums there.)

Tower declared bankruptcy and closed all of their stores in 2006.  There is a good documentary on the rise and fall of Tower Records called All Things Must Pass. You can get it on Amazon, but I found it in my local library.



I saw the documentary tonight. Very well done and brought back many memories of talking music with the store clerks and spending some Friday and Saturday nights there with my best buds.
Too bad they’re no longer around, except, apparently in Japan. The title of the documentary says it all.
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Re: What are you listening to right now?
« Reply #14065 on: July 25, 2021, 06:13:04 AM »
I sure miss them as well. I spent many Saturdays wandering through the store on 4th and Broadway in Manhattan. Every couple of months I would head into the city with an audio buddy or two and make a day trip to Tower. Not only did they have a huge store, but they also had a gigantic Classical Clearance Annex in the building next store. You could spend a day in there alone going through aisles and aisle  of cutouts (although the name was the classical annex they eventually ended up carrying all kinds of closeout albums there.)

Tower declared bankruptcy and closed all of their stores in 2006.  There is a good documentary on the rise and fall of Tower Records called All Things Must Pass. You can get it on Amazon, but I found it in my local library.



I saw the documentary tonight. Very well done and brought back many memories of talking music with the store clerks and spending some Friday and Saturday nights there with my best buds.
Too bad they’re no longer around, except, apparently in Japan. The title of the documentary says it all.

Yup, those were the days weren't they?

Now we have pretty much the entire catalog of what would be stocked at Tower, if it was open today, right at our fingertips via Tidal etc. But somehow it's just not the same.

At least for now, if you live on the west coast there is still Amoeba.
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Re: What are you listening to right now?
« Reply #14066 on: July 25, 2021, 04:55:44 PM »
Miles Davis: Ascenseur Pour L'Ιchafaud



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Re: What are you listening to right now?
« Reply #14067 on: July 25, 2021, 04:58:04 PM »
Miles Davis: Kind of Blue



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Re: What are you listening to right now?
« Reply #14068 on: July 25, 2021, 05:01:41 PM »
Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble: Couldn't Stand the Weather



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Re: What are you listening to right now?
« Reply #14069 on: July 25, 2021, 05:04:20 PM »
Cat Stevens: Tea for the Tillerman



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