How many Broadway LPs, if any, do you own and which ones?- Page 2

[Ed_Mottershead]

Posted: 2/11/08 at 8:12pm

I have several hundred, plus related types of music (singers, as a rule). I'm really hurting for space and my offer stands as such: anyone who's willing to come to my place (near Princeton NJ) can HAVE the whole lot of them for NOTHING, with the proviso that they will remove all of them for me (I live in a 2nd floor walkup). Conditions vary, but I'm sure there'll be something of interest for the musical devotee. Just asking, no gimmicks except that I want ALL of them out of here.

[philly03]

Posted: 2/11/08 at 8:16pm

Only a few..:
Camelot OBC
42nd Street OBC
The King & I (I actually think it's the movie one though)
and
CHESS OBC with Judy Kuhn!

[ChiChi]

Posted: 2/11/08 at 8:54pm

I have over 100. It would take me forever to list them all.

[allofmylife]

Posted: 2/11/08 at 9:39pm

I used to have over 300.

Ever tried to move 300 LPs?

Now I have about fifty - on my hard drive.

[husk_charmer]

Posted: 2/11/08 at 10:40pm

I have:

1776 - OMPS
Annie Get Your Gun - OBC with Merman, 78s
Anything Goes/Panama Hattie - TV Cast
archy and mehitabel - studio cast, mint in wrapper
Barbara Streisand - the Broadway Album
Best Little Whorehouse in Texas - OMPS
Cabaret - OMPS
A Chorus Line - OBC
A Chorus Line: The Movie
The Roar of Love - some odd album based on Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Cleavage - OBC
Drowsy Chaperone - Highlights
Evita - White Album
Evita - OBC
George M! - OBC
Great Muppet Caper - OMPS
Half a Sixpence - OBC
Hello, Dolly - OBC
Hello, Dolly - OLC
Jesus Christ Supestar - Concept, Mint in wrapper
A Little Night Music - OLC
A Little Night Music - OMPS
Milk and Honey - OBC
Most Happy Fella - OBC 3 LPs
Muppet Movie - OMPS
My Fair Lady - OBC
My Fair Lady - Studio Cast
My Fair Lady - 1978 Revival Demo LP
Phantom of the Opera - OBC 2LPs
Promenade - OBC
Promises, Promises - OBC
The Return to Oz (aka Journey Back to Oz) w/Peter Lawford
She Loves Me - OBC
Shenandoah - OBC
ShowBoat - Excerpts, the big folio thingy
Sound of Music - OBC
Sound of Music - OMPS
Mary Martin Tells and Sings the story of Sound of Music
Sweethearts - 33s (I think)
They're Playing our Song - OBC
Up in Central Park - Selections, 78s
The Wiz - OBC
The Wiz - OMPS (w/the T-shirt ad)
Wizard of Oz - Disco Album
Varying Wizard of Oz Recordings
Working - OBC
Your Arms to Short to Box w/God - OBC

[Plexsis]

Posted: 2/11/08 at 11:29pm

The only cast recording LP i have is the Evita OBC. I found it at half-priced books for about $4. I'd really like to have the ones for Sweeney, Phantom, and Into the Woods.

[PUPPETMAN]

Posted: 2/12/08 at 12:22am

Too many to count - at least 200 dating back to the time LPs were first issued - shows like Finian'Rainbow - original cast
Kismet - original cast etc. I bought every one that came out. Name a show from the 40s up to now and I have a recording of it.

[CATSNYrevival]

Posted: 2/12/08 at 1:02am

I only have an LP of The Drowsy Chaperone.

[luvtheEmcee]

Posted: 2/12/08 at 1:11am

I only have one, but it's very dear to my heart. It's the Company OBC.

I'm sure my parents have a whole bunch, though. I should go through their collection sometime.

[WickedBoy2]

Posted: 2/12/08 at 6:54am

If you were to look at my list of cast recordings today it now stands at 3748. This is the complete list A thru Z.
2527 are on now on CD, the remaining 1221 are on LP awaiting me to buy the CD when, if ever it gets released or get them transfered to CD. These are the numbers up to and including the last 6 CDs i bought last Friday. I buy around 5 or 6 CDs a week and maybe 2 or 3 LPS when i find any! Ive managed to get any tapes i had transfered to CD thank goodness.
Im still buying LPs of shows when i see then especially those that will never see the light of day on CD. There a number of people i know on here and elsewhere who send me recordings via SendSpace and then i make my own copy on CD together with the CD artwork.
Its a never ending job but one i love doing.

Updated On: 2/12/08 at 06:54 AM

[Urban]

Posted: 2/12/08 at 7:47am

Not many, and they are all pretty mainstream

Oklahoma (Soundtrack)
The Sound of Music (Soundtrack)
The King & I (OBCR)
Annie Get Your Gun (Doris Day)
Rocky Horror

Makes me wish I picked up a whole pile I saw in Deseret Industries a few years ago.

[frontrowcentre2]

Posted: 2/12/08 at 1:12pm

Up until 5 or 6 years ago there was a thriving market for used (but good condition) Lp's on E-bay but as that site got busier with people selling LPs that were virtually unplayable the market dried up. Also very few people even have turntables any more. (The radio station I work for does not even have a turntable in the master control room!)

I love the convenience and durability of Cd's ... but there is still something magical about holding that 12-inch (or 10-inch) Lp cover in your hands. You gaze at the cover of the original CAROUSEL with its full stage shot of the company listening to Billy Bigalow's spiel captures the look of Broadway in 1945.

Even more fun were Decca's "candid" shots of the recording sessions including in the 78-albums of UP IN CENTRAL PARK and SONG OF NORWAY.

And if you thing lugging a few hundred Lp's around is heavy, try moving several hundred album sets of 6 to 8 records each on very fragile and irreplaceable 78's!

[uncageg]

Posted: 2/12/08 at 1:15pm

allofmylife...gotcha beat...I have close to 600 LP's that I have moved 7 times!

[BustopherPhantom]

Posted: 2/12/08 at 1:21pm

Well, my family (and this may not be the complete list) has:

Annie (Original Broadway Cast)
Evita (Original Broadway Cast)
Les Miserables (Original Broadway Cast)
You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown (Original Off-Broadway Cast)
Fiddler on the Roof (Original Film Soundtrack)

Updated On: 2/12/08 at 01:21 PM

[Magical_Ms._Mistoffeles_72]

Posted: 2/12/08 at 1:55pm

JCS concept album
hair
godspell
flower drum song
king and I
my fair lady
student prince
oliver
sound of music

[stagescreen]

Posted: 2/12/08 at 2:24pm

Hundreds and Hundreds and Hundreds! I've been collecting LPs since I was a kid, and I still play them on my radio show - Stage & Screen - every Sunday morning. I have a lot of the LPs of shows that have never been transfered to CD, or are so long out of print that they might as well not be available on CD. I'll make a list of some of my favorites when I get back home (several favorites offhand include the London casts of PROMISES PROMISES and NO STRINGS.) I own at least a thousand cast recordings in different formats (never bothered to count them), and the radio station has a lot more, both on LP and CD.

I agree with folks that say that the LP sound is richer than CD. In some cases, the CD transfer can remove some of the warm tones from the LPs (i.e. SHE LOVES ME on LP versus the CD release). I've begun to transfer some of the rarer LPs to CD -- I use an Audio Technica turntable with a built-in pre-amp and rip them to my laptop via Audacity. However, my laptop's audio input jack is configured only in mono, so stereo recordings don't work. I've looked at various message boards on the web and people say that it's the driver that Dell installs that limits audio input to mono, not stereo -- I've tried installing different drivers to cheat the thing into recording in stereo, but to no avail. When I upgrade my laptop, I'll get a Mac and that won't be an issue anymore. However, I highly recommend the Audio Technica AT-PL120 turntable for those interested in upgrading an older model. It resembles the much pricier Technics DJ style turntables at a fraction of the cost. And it comes with a built-in pre-amp/line out switch so that you can connect to a computer without any additional hardware (just RCA female to stereo mini cables required).

Mostly I transfer LPs to CD to listen to in the car, or at my office. I have no problem getting up to flip the side or stop the turntable at home, or at the radio station. And I still collect them! However, they are a pain to move (or evacuate with for hurricanes).

[Scripps2]

Posted: 2/12/08 at 3:03pm

By posting on this thread we're all inviting comparison with the lead character in The Drowsy Chaperone.

[WickedBoy2]

Posted: 2/12/08 at 3:08pm

Anyone ever use SendSpace to send music to anyone. Ive been sent, very kindly, 5 or 6 OLC and OBC that i didnt have and had been looking for or only had on vynil. A certain person on here has already mentioned one that i would love to have again!!!

[Timmer]

Posted: 2/12/08 at 4:16pm

More than I can count. About a whole record cabinet full of them.

[WickedBoy2]

Posted: 2/12/08 at 4:24pm

Only discovered it last week, pretty cool.

[cfmiller]

Posted: 2/12/08 at 8:03pm

Mine is between 2-300, too many to count, though it is my objective to catalog the collection soon.

Footlite is good, but not for the beginner, as it contains mostly the rarer items. Great place for someone looking to fill in their collection.

Ebay is also hit and miss, though you have all those fools with their countless copies of Hair, West Side Story, and My Fair Lady thinking you are going to pay 10 bucks for the record and 15 more to ship it. Good grief! I love the ones who start out "RARE Cast Album-Hair!" Honey, everyone, and I mean everyone had those albums in the 60's. They aren't worth squat.

Thrift stores and garage sales are your best bet. I love looking through the stacks. Just about any bigger city you go to will have a few used record stores. I always make it a point to go, and you don't really spend too long there since they have their collection grouped.

I have never paid over $8 for a cast album, and have many of the rare ones some of earlier posters have.

I think the real challenge is collecting the sealed LP's. Those ARE rare. How wrong is it that I keep opening them because I just have to listen to it?

[WickedBoy2]

Posted: 2/12/08 at 8:07pm

Theres a store on Market St in San Francisco where ive bought many and none more than $3. Dreamgirls, A chorus Line (gate fold), La Cage and many other long lost shows.

Updated On: 2/12/08 at 08:07 PM

[cfmiller]

Posted: 2/12/08 at 8:09pm

And one more thing-LP's are a great way to listen to those OBC's that have never been and/or never will be released on CD.

[WickedBoy2]

Posted: 2/12/08 at 8:13pm

Thats the only reason i collect LPs. i have maybe 200 or more i know will NEVER be seen on CD. im slowly getting them transfered to CD. Theres something very very special when you hear a show for the first time in maybe 20 years or more that you thought you never would again!

[desiree armfeldt]

Posted: 2/12/08 at 9:26pm

West Side Story
The King and I


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