After digging and flipping through several piles of old and certainly dusty vinyl long playing records at the almost-lit rear of a junk shop, all I could come up with was the front part of a 10 inch record jacket. The back panel and the record and the inner sleeve (if there ever was one) were gone.
I carried the fragment of cardboard to the counter nearer the front of the establishment and began what I thought would be a lengthy discussion.
“I can’t find the rest of this jacket or the record but I’d like to have it anyway.”
The proprietor jumped up from his lunch to get a better look at the square card in my hand. Then he sat back down.
“Oh, that,” he said, as if he were wholly familiar with the particular item, “You can have that.” He waved it off as if it were trash, which, in his shop, it was. And he returned to his lunch.
I left.
It is a David Stone Martin cover for a Norman Granz 10 inch album for Mercury. It’s a treasure to me.
In completely unrelated news:
Today in 1978 Prince's first single "Soft and Wet" was released.
Today in 1993 Prince changed his name to an unpronounceable symbol.
Today in 2000 The "Prince: A Celebration" party began at Paisley Park Studios. The weeklong event was in celebration of The Artist reclaiming his name "Prince" after a 7-year battle with Warner Brothers.
Today in 1979 Chuck Berry was charged with 3 counts of tax evasion. Later that same day, he performed at the White House at the request of U.S. President Carter.
Today in 1993 The ground breaking ceremony was held for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum in Cleveland, OH.
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Labels: David Stone Martin, LP, Machito, Norman Granz, Ten Inch LP
