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Volume Three-Ten Years On
Here it is, volume three of For Hi-Fi Living! We're visiting Hollywood tonight, and it's a Gala Hollywood Premiere as you can tell by the cover. Twelve songs from Hollywood films, some familiar, some...
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Volume Four-Ten Years On
I was beginning to wonder if I was going to be able to get this special Super Bowl Sunday edition of For Hi-Fi Living up today, but here it is finally. This is the second contribution from Hill Bowen,...
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Volume Five-Ten Years On
Another Sunday, another installment of the For Hi-Fi Living series. And, oddly enough, another set by Hill Bowen, making his third installment in the set. I guess somebody at RCA really liked him, or...
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Volume Six-Ten Years On
Hello, and welcome back. Sorry I missed a few weeks. Life got a little too busy to worry about fifty year old music for a bit. Hope you're all doing well. I think this week's music will be worth...
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Volume Seven-Ten Years On
I know, I know, you'd given up on seeing any more of these installments of For Hi-Fi Living. But here I am again, with volume 7 on this Memorial Day weekend. Time flies when you're having fun, and...
View ArticleChristmas In July 2017-Day 1
Well, I told myself I wasn't going to do this, but here goes. I spent a big chunk of the day recording some Christmas music from non-Christmas LPs, so I'm going to share some of them with you during...
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Another day, another 20 songs recorded and ready to share for Christmas in July! If I can keep this rate up for a while, I should be OK through the end of the month. But you know what happens to the...
View ArticleChristmas In July 2017-Day 3
I was shocked today to discover a folder full of Christmas in July songs I ripped last year but never shared out. So that means I've got plenty more songs in the can to share with you than I first...
View ArticleChristmas In July 2017-Day 04
Gonna try and get something up a little bit earlier today. Can't be up all night since I have to go to work in the morning, unlike the past four days in a row. And with all that time off, I was able...
View ArticleChristmas In July 2017-Day 5
G'day, and welcome to the fifth day of Christmas In July! All of the songs in today's share were recorded last year for a July that never happened. There's some good stuff in here, so let's get to...
View ArticleChristmas In July 2017-Day 6
Good news, good news! I found a whole other box of records marked CiJ (for Christmas in July) that I packed away last year! The bad news is that only about half the records in the box fit the...
View ArticleChristmas In July 2017-Day 7
Day seven, one week in, still going strong! Feels good to be posting again, and I've been digging up some good stuff at the junk stores. Sometimes this job is easy, sometimes it's tough. Let's see...
View ArticleChristmas In July 2017-Day 8
Whew, long day! I've been out trying to find more Christmas tracks to share with you this month, and I must have flipped through ten thousand albums. I could have done half again more but it was so...
View ArticleChristmas In July 2017 Day 9
It is the ninth, right? I'm losing track of time. So much Christmas music, so little time. Let's go...1. Baby It's Cold Outside, one of my favorite versions ever, by Ted Heath And His Music &...
View ArticleChristmas In July 2017 Day 10
Hello! And welcome to day 10! I've just wasted an hour trying to get a cha cha cha version of a Nutcracker Suite song to play without skipping, and nothing I did worked. So I'm a little frustrated...
View ArticleChristmas In July 2017-Day 11
Whew, long, long day at work today, and didn't get anything done. So I'm late tonight. And I didn't get to record a single thing. That's the first time since the beginning of the month that I...
View ArticleChristmas In July 2017 Day 12
Whew, got off at a decent hour today so I was able to record a few tracks for the pile. I keep finding more and more records that I want to grab a track from, they seem to come out of the woodwork at...
View ArticleChristmas In July 2017 Day 13
Lucky number 13! I must be doing something right. Let's jump right in, feet first. first time!1. The Sound Of Christmas by 101 Strings, Recorded Under The Direction Of D.L. Miller, a rerun around...
View ArticleChristmas In July 2017 Day 14
Fourteen days in a row, I'm on fire! No, really, I'm on fire, somebody come over and spray some water before all this vinyl starts melting and I drown! OK, I'm obviously delirious from staying up too...
View ArticleChristmas In July 2017 Day 15
Trying to get this done early today so I can go out and see Spiderman today. I doubt it has any Christmas content in it, though, so this post is going to have to be it for the day. Here's what you're...
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