#26
Posted: 1/15/09 at 11:34am
Richard Branson had a 100 year lease for that space at $54 per square foot. Now the new owners can get $700 per square foot.
When I first started going to New York in the late 1970s's the Times Square area was rife with record stores: J&R Music World, King Karol, Sam Goody's, and Disc-O-Mat which had the cheapest prices in town for general in print titles. (If memory serves, Disc-O-Mat was about where Virgin is now.)
Then there were the used record stores catering to collectors. Colony with its bins of rare Lp's sorted by label. (Broadway shows: RCA Victor cut outs, Columbia cutouts etc) and The Record Exchange on 7th ave, which even as late as 1977 was still dealing in 78's.
And Music Masters on 43rd St where you could buy Lp transfers of long out-of-print 78's as well as audiotapes of complete live performances, often of shows that closed with no cast album.
Now Colony will be the only one in the area.
When I first started going to New York in the late 1970s's the Times Square area was rife with record stores: J&R Music World, King Karol, Sam Goody's, and Disc-O-Mat which had the cheapest prices in town for general in print titles. (If memory serves, Disc-O-Mat was about where Virgin is now.)
Then there were the used record stores catering to collectors. Colony with its bins of rare Lp's sorted by label. (Broadway shows: RCA Victor cut outs, Columbia cutouts etc) and The Record Exchange on 7th ave, which even as late as 1977 was still dealing in 78's.
And Music Masters on 43rd St where you could buy Lp transfers of long out-of-print 78's as well as audiotapes of complete live performances, often of shows that closed with no cast album.
Now Colony will be the only one in the area.
Cast albums are NOT "soundtracks."
Live theatre does not use a "soundtrack." If it did, it wouldn't be live theatre!
I host a weekly one-hour radio program featuring cast album selections as well as songs by cabaret, jazz and theatre artists. The program, FRONT ROW CENTRE is heard Sundays 9 to 10 am and also Saturdays from 8 to 9 am (eastern times) on www.proudfm.com
