Post #482090 by JenTiki on Tue, Sep 8, 2009 10:50 AM

My mom has been holding on to my father's album collection since he passed 7 years ago, and would not allow me even to go through it to see if there was anything I wanted. Keep in mind, my mother has not owned a turntable for at least 15 years. This past weekend, she finally let me look through it and agreed to let me have some of them on the condition that I would find a way to get them put onto CDs for her.

Hidden between the Arthur Fiedler, Ray Conniff, and "Living Strings" albums, I found some great exotica. Namely Arthur Lyman's Taboo and Bwana-a, as well as several Martin Denny albums. There are also some cool Henry Mancini, other lounge, and good latin jazz albums. We decided to leave the records at her place for now because I had a 4-hour drive home in hot weather and we weren't sure the records would survive the drive in the trunk of the car (tiny trunk with no space for the albums to lay flat), or on the seat with the top down on the convertible. I'll bring them home when I go back during cooler weather. I'm looking forward to putting these old gems to good use.

If anyone in the bay area has the technology to convert vinyl to CD, please let me know! I can provide the CDs and pay for your time!