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> Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 17:05:38 -0400
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> Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] music man murray record collection & Murray Gershenz, music collector extraordinaire, is parting with his entire music library.
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> "Sing A Song of Six Pants" on Google Videos. Near the end of the print. With Shemp, Larry And Moe.
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> R. Hodge
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Association for Recorded Sound Discussion List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Shai Drori
> Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2010 5:08 PM
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> Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] music man murray record collection & Murray Gershenz, music collector extraordinaire, is parting with his entire music library.
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> Where can I see that film on the net?
> Shai
>
> On 8/18/2010 9:46 PM, Michael Biel wrote:
> > On 8/18/2010 3:22 PM, Pete Tinker wrote:
> >> Cary,
> >>
> >> I think I also remember the shop on Highland. My memory reports that
> >> it had a second floor, with LPs arranged as usual (bins on top of
> >> cabinets). However, *under* the cabinets, behind sliding doors, were
> >> 78s! I picked up several scarce "party" records there that day
> >> (1987, I think).
> >>
> >> A note on your "lovable old coot" note about Murray: doesn't Mr.
> >> Bussard have a prior claim?
> >
> > But Joe is not a dealer, he is a collector like us -- and I think
> > we're all a bunch of genuine lovable old coots (see my daughter's
> > documentary For The Record to check some of us out!!)
> >
> >>
> >> On 8/18/2010 11:52 AM, Cary Ginell wrote:
> >>> I remember the store on Highland. I think it was called The Record
> >>> Collector. It was chiefly classical records, and a good supply of it
> >>> at that. Not the bottom-of-the-barrel stuff that Murray housed.
> >
> > So in the past 11 years NEITHER of you have noticed the huge white
> > lettering THE RECORD COLLECTOR on Melrose and have been in that place?
> >
> >>> The Highland shop did have a few 10-inch jazz and folk LPs, which I
> >>> scarfed up at a decent price because the snob who ran the place
> >>> looked down his nose at them. It was like in the Three Stooges short
> >>> where Moe, Larry, and Curly are thumbing through a stack of hundred
> >>> dollar bills: $100, 200, 300, 400, 500, oh! here's a five," and they
> >>> toss it away.
> >>>
> >>> Cary Ginell
> >>>
> >
> > Yeah, and go to a Jazz Hound shop and they toss out the classical!!!
> > I'll see if I can figure out how to put up the excerpt from that
> > program with this guy on line for you to check if it is this guy. I
> > think Leah also recorded the program and she knows how to do it.
> >
> > Mike Biel [log in to unmask]
> >>>> Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 13:22:09 -0500
> >>>> From: [log in to unmask]
> >>>> Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] music man murray record collection& Murray
> >>>> Gershenz, music collector extraordinaire, is parting with his
> >>>> entire music library.
> >>>> To: [log in to unmask]
> >>>>
> >>>> I recall the excitement when first moved to LA at the prospect of
> >>>> going to
> >>>> Murray's. Then I went. Dashed hopes. Only to be outdone by the
> >>>> music shop
> >>>> on Highland at Santa Monica, with a shopkeeper even more arrogant than
> >>>> Murray. I hate to see record (and book) shops close but when their
> >>>> "owner"
> >>>> behaves as these folks have, give me the internet any day.
> >>>>
> >>>> Alan Carrie
> >>>>
> >>>> On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 12:23 PM, Cary Ginell<[log in to unmask]>
> >>>> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> The point differentiating "stock" from "collection" is well-taken
> >>>>> in this
> >>>>> case. To my knowledge, Murray as never been anything but a
> >>>>> shopkeeper. He
> >>>>> has no private collection to my knowledge and really isn't all that
> >>>>> concerned with the finer points of discographical research as are
> >>>>> serious
> >>>>> collectors. He never worked hard to make his a better business. He
> >>>>> just
> >>>>> opened his doors and expected to sell his schlock for whatever
> >>>>> ridiculous
> >>>>> prices he posted on them. He has been reviled in L.A. for decades
> >>>>> as being a
> >>>>> grumpy, mean, brusque, and difficult person. The last time I
> >>>>> visited his
> >>>>> shop was maybe 25-30 years ago, when it was on Santa Monica Blvd.
> >>>>> near
> >>>>> Western, a bad part of town even then. What he's got now is most
> >>>>> likely the
> >>>>> same stuff, only rifled through even further. There may be some
> >>>>> choice items
> >>>>> that he set aside (some of which he has displayed during
> >>>>> interviews), but I
> >>>>> can almost guarantee that they are a miniscule percentage of his
> >>>>> holdings
> >>>>> and certainly not representative of all that is there. If his
> >>>>> business were
> >>>>> doing well, he wouldn't need to find a new profession at his
> >>>>> advanced age.
> >>>>> He could have just dumped what was left and gone off to some
> >>>>> island in
> >>>>> blissful retirement. But creating a new image of himself as a
> >>>>> "lovable old
> >>>>> coot" on TV shows is easier for him and probably earns him a much
> >>>>> better
> >>>>> income than selling records. If these records end up in a land fill
> >>>>> somewhere, they probably won't be missed.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Cary Ginell
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>
> >>
> >
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