Post #59258 by donhonyc on Sun, Nov 9, 2003 9:21 PM

For all of you non-east coast/non-New York Area people: the WFMU record fair is a biannual event presented by perhaps one of the coolest radio stations in America...WFMU. For any vinyl freak this is a must-go-to-affair, 'specially for us lovers of the Exotica and Space-Age Bachelor Pad genres. The fairs happen during the weekend and are probably one of the biggest , if not the biggest in the USA.

I usually go on the afternoon of the last day (sunday) in hopes of getting the bahgains. All the stuff the vendors are sick of looking at and finally wanna get rid of. This does happen and some people let go of their stuff, sometimes up to 50% off. The down side of going on the last day is that alot of the stuff is already picked over and some of the cool LPs at the good prices are GONE.

Okay...let's cut to the chase already. What did I get?????

Martin Denny "Quiet Village" Mint Cond for a dollar. (this one replaces the seriously crappy copy I bought on Ebay from a lame seller.)

Martin Denny "Romantica" VG condition for two dollars

Jerry Lewis "Jerry Lewis Just Sings" Mint for 3 dollars

"Sounds In Space" (w/Ken Nordine) VG condition for 6 dollars

Perez Prado "Big Hits by Prado" VG condition for one dollar

Arthur Murray "Rock and Roll" VG for a dollar

and last but sorta not least
Carmen Cavallaro "Cocktails With Cavallaro" for a dollar. This one I bought soley for the cover. It has a cool close-up picture of a waiter carrying a tray of cocktails at a party circa late 50s. Not expecting this to kick my ass music wise. But what the heck. for a buck you can't go wrong, unless of course you find it in the trash for free.

Not a bad lot for $15. Nothing earth shattering, but fun nonetheless.

Wish I had a flat-bed scanner, I'd scan all this stuff in for yooz guyz too look at.

I missed the boat on a couple of Denny LPs including "Exotic Percussion". I saw one or two in the 10 to 15 dollar range, so I wanted to shop around. Being that I only spent $15 total, I could afford to splurge on one last one at the end, but the place was shutting down by that point, but I 'll find that out there somewhere.

Also, there was a serious lack of Baxter around there. Thought I would find some. I'm guessing all the people that came earlier in the weekend snapped all of that stuff up, because all I coould find was one copy of "Jungle Jazz" but that was like $40.

Some of the deals at the fair are good, at the same time though some of the prices are incredibly inflated. Ridiculously so. One guy would be selling good copies of Denny stuff for around $7 and another guy a few tables away was selling the same thing, same condition for at least double the price. A few of the vendors were selling stuff that was priced so high it was un-buyable. Their tables were more like vinyl museums than a guy that actually wanted to move product. For example, Esquivel "Other Worlds, Other Sounds" for $40 ???? I bought mine in mint condition at a great used vinyl store here in the city for $18. There was other stuff that was just priced off the radar. Granted some stuff deserves to be so expensive, but c'mon now.

You get the idea....

Gonna go drop the needle!

Cheers! :drink:

[ Edited by: donhonyc on 2003-11-09 22:07 ]