So long, Marty (Colony Records)

[PB ENT.]

Posted: 11/2/08 at 10:02pm

Colony Records will have to make due without Marty! The legendary, Marty Cooper is leaving Colony after 27 years.

For those of us who met Marty and marvled at his memory of Broadway shows and actors,well, he will be irreplacable.

There isn't a Broadway performer who's CD was/is not on Colony's shelf, thanks to Marty.

I think Colony should erect a statue...or at least a cardboard standup of the mah-va-los Marty.

Best wishes to a great theater lover and a nice guy.

Marty Makes His Exit

[morosco]

Posted: 11/2/08 at 10:25pm

http://www.broadwayworld.com/board/readmessage.cfm?thread=983325&dt=5&boardid=1

[frontrowcentre2]

Posted: 11/3/08 at 2:07am

As a record collector, Colony was my favourite haunt along the great white way. My first visit there (exactly 31 years ago today I just remembered) was memorable...browsing the cast albums sorted not by title, but by label and divided between In Print titles and Cut outs. The cut out bins held items long out-of-print and previously unseen by me... ALLEGRO, the 1946 SHOW BOAT, the TV cast of LADY IN THE DARK. Amazing. Of course all of these have since been issued on CD and are no longer rare. The prices were shocking. $50 for HAPPY HUNTING? $75 for SAY DARLING? $250 for the soundtrack album (10-inch) of A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE!! Later they moved te Lp’s to a small library-type room at the back and eventually got rid of them. The CD’s are difficult to browse, so it’s not as much fun anymore. But stiull the place is a Broadway icon like Lindy’s or TKTS.