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

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!

I used to have over 300.

Ever tried to move 300 LPs?

Now I have about fifty - on my hard drive.

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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.

I only have an LP of The Drowsy Chaperone.

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.

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

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!

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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)

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

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).

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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!!!

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Only discovered it last week, pretty cool.

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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.

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

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!

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