Interesting. I got a note from someone who was watching the Dick Clark auction, and asked if I would be relisting the collection. Since someone's interested, I relisted them; the auction ends next week.
Meanwhile, I had a tough decision to make. I have about 190 remaining commercial LP's (down from almost 400 some years ago). They really needed to be reduced, leaving the most valuable ones and tossing the rest.
My criterion was this: if you can download it on iTunes, and there's nothing else special about the LP, out it goes. I ended up tossing all but a dozen of them. Bill Cosby, Tracey Ullman, the Go-Go's, The Who -- gone.
What I kept, though, were irreplaceable -- Promo copies of albums, LPs that were never released to CD (Americathon soundtrack, anyone?) Even a couple of test pressings!
What will be harder, and I haven't done it yet, is going through my Barry Manilow vinyl collection. For a few years, I would grab any copy of a Barry album I saw in a garage sale bin or a discount rack, just because I couldn't bear the thought of his music being tossed away. But -- I now have 9 copies of Barry Manilow II, and just about every other vinyl release of his. That's a little much. I will have to sort them for the absolute rarest ones (I have two promo copies of his original 1st album on Bell Records, for instance).
This is not for the faint of heart... --JB
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