How many products are there that can get sold over and over again and can sometimes even increase in value? I think about that while going through boxes of used records at the Bop Shop. Like millions of other people I sold most of my records when cds came out and then I sold the cds after ripping them. And someone has bought every one of those items a few times over by now.
The 1954 Bud Powell record above used to belong to Douglas Silver who lived in this house in Lakewood California. His address was had written on the back of the 45 I purchased. I love imagining Doug sitting in this house with Bud Powell on his hi-fi. Records have a long life. They live longer than we do. Louis Danziger, the guy who designed this fabulous cover, is 102. Examples of his work are included in the Cary Graphic Arts Collection at RIT.
I don’t miss all that vinyl and certainly not the cds but Peggi and I hung on to our forty-fives. And the collection continues to swell, mostly with the addition of jazz titles. I made a playlist of our jazz 45s for Apple and Spotify. Here are the links –
Apple Music – Spotify