Capitol/EMI will release two collections of Dean Martin’s music on June 7, just in time for Father’s Day. A new title, “Classic Dino: The Best Of Dean Martin” gathers 14 classic tracks, and the Platinum-certified “Dino: The Essential Dean Martin” has been expanded from a single disc to a 2CD package featuring 36 of Martin’s top hits and signature songs.

The expanded edition of “Dino: The Essential Dean Martin” includes a previously unreleased studio version of “Rock-A-Bye Your Baby With A Dixie Melody.” Recorded by Martin on April 28, 1950, the master was presumed lost until it was recently unearthed in the Capitol vaults.

On the same date, Universal Music Enterprises (UMe) will release a new 60+ page hardcover book and musical collection titled “Cool Then, Cool Now” featuring never before seen photos compiled from personal collections and family archives, and includes a 2CD, 28-song collection, spanning Dean Martin’s musical career.

Previously announced, NBCUniversal Television Consumer Products and TIME-LIFE will release three new DVD collections featuring “The Best of the Dean Martin Variety Show” on May 24. The single DVD, double DVD and six-DVD Collectors Edition sets capture material never before released from some of the shows greatest episodes during its nine-year run on television from 1965 to 1974.

Classic Dino: The Best Of Dean Martin [CD, digital]
1. That’s Amore

2. Ain’t That A Kick In The Head

3. Memories Are Made Of This

4. I’ll Always Love You (Day After Day)

5. Sway

6. You Belong To Me

7. Volare (Nel Blu Di Pinto Di Blu)

8. Powder Your Face With Sunshine (Smile! Smile! Smile!)

9. You’re Nobody ‘Til Somebody Loves You

10. Return To Me (Ritorna-Me)

11. The Door Is Still Open (To My Heart)

12. Everybody Loves Somebody

13. Houston

14. I Will

Dino: The Essential Dean Martin [2CD, digital]
Disc 1

1. Ain’t That A Kick In The Head

2. That’s Amore

3. Memories Are Made Of This

4. Just In Time

5. I’d Cry Like A Baby

6. Volare (Nel Blu Di Pinto Di Blu)

7. Under The Bridges Of Paris

8. Sway

9. Love Me, Love Me

10. If

11. Mambo Italiano

12. Angel Baby

13. Let Me Go, Lover

14. Standing On The Corner

15. You Belong To Me

16. Powder Your Face With Sunshine (Smile! Smile! Smile!)

17. Innamorata (Sweetheart)

18. Rock-A-Bye Your Baby With A Dixie Melody [previously unreleased]

Disc 2

1. On An Evening In Roma (Sott’er Celo De Roma)

2. Money Burns A Hole In My Pocket

3. Cha Cha Cha D’Amour (Melodie D’Amour)

4. I’ll Always Love You (Day After Day)

5. Kiss

6. You’re Nobody ‘Til Somebody Loves You

7. Return To Me (Ritorna-Me)

8. The Door Is Still Open (To My Heart)

9. Houston

10. Send Me The Pillow You Dream On

11. Everybody Loves Somebody

12. In The Chapel In The Moonlight

13. Little Ole Wine Drinker, Me

14. I Will

15. (Remember Me) I’m The One Who Loves You

16. In The Misty Moonlight

17. Somewhere There’s A Someone

18. Gentle On My Mind

Visit the official Dean Martin website: www.DeanMartin.com

By Harvey Kubernik

Phil Spector has been away from his Alhambra, California-home and the recording studio since spring of 2009, when a California jury convicted him of second degree murder in the 2003 death of Lana Clarkson.

In 2011 Phil Spector is actively preparing his appeal from a California State Prison.

If you are expecting a Jailbird confession from a convicted murderer or a character pleading for freedom and justice, or the usual print and electronic media-defined and self-imposed wild man portrayal of Phil Spector, I suggest you stop reading immediately.

The legacy of Phil Spector’s productions and songwriting contributions should not be eradicated from the results of his 2009 legal decision.

Spector’s sonic achievements coupled with his music business acumen have helped us all hear the world.

Spector’s catalogue is now controlled by EMI Publishing who administrate both his music publishing and master tapes have just secured a distribution agreement for his epochal Philles label recordings and historic copyrights.

Sony Music Entertainment and EMI Publishing last year in new licensing deal launched a reissue campaign with both physical and digital Spector-birthed collaborations. The first offering was the Phil Spector “A Christmas Gift For You” album.

The “Christmas” album, initially out as “A Christmas Gift For You” on Philles, and later re-titled as “Phil Spector’s Christmas Album” for the Beatles’ Apple Records, reached #6 on the “Billboard” Top 200 chart in 1972. It was out of print for many years until Sony Music Entertainment last year re-released this Yuletide classic which includes Darlene Love’s performance of “Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)” written for the disc by Ellie Greenwich, Jeff Barry and Spector.

The Legacy/Phil Spector ongoing reissue series integrates digital and physical (including CDs and vinyl 12″ and 7″ with replica artwork) releases of titles drawn from the original albums and singles (and b-sides) from the groundbreaking and influential Philles Records catalog.

Spector originally started the label in 1962 with then partner and music business veteran Lester Sill. The Philles moniker was birthed from the first parts of their names, Phil and Les.

The Phil Spector Philles Records catalog, including the Ronettes, the Crystals, Bob B. Soxx & The Blue Jeans, Darlene Love, Lenny Bruce and more, covers the United States, with an international roll-out to follow

On February 22, 2011 the restoration of Phil Spector’s catalog continued with 4 new compilations: “Be My Baby: The Very Best Of The Ronettes”; “The Sounds Of Love: The Very Best Of Darlene Love”; “Da Doo Ron Ron: The Very Best Of The Crystals”; “Wall Of Sound: The Very Best Of Phil Spector 1962-1966.”

The label is preparing new compilations — including Artist’s Playlists, Best of collections, and first-ever releases of Philles studio rarities — as well as facsimile reproductions of original singles and albums are under development under the new agreement

All products in the Legacy/Spector Reissue Project will be newly remastered for the series.

“There may be no pop music more iconic than ‘Be My Baby’ or ‘Da Do Ron Ron’,” said Adam Block, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Legacy Recordings in 2010. “The Philles ‘Wall of Sound’ is embedded in our musical DNA, the craft of these recordings, the quality of the songwriting and the power of the productions have established a standard that continues to inspire artists and musicians. The style, attitude and voices of great artists like Ronnie Spector and Darlene Love remain a presence in pop culture. We are delighted to be bringing these records to a whole new generation.”

In March 2011, Universal Music Enterprises will release the 2 CD 40th anniversary deluxe edition of Derek and the Dominos’ “Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs” which includes the two tracks produced by Spector in early 1970 that amounted to the first release by the band: “Tell the Truth” and “Roll It Over,” the A-and B-side of a single that was pulled from circulation by the group.

Phil Spector’s copyrights and master tapes are regularly licensed in visual mediums from movie and television soundtracks to advertising and commercials.

Also in development for 2011 is an HBO-TV movie about Spector starring Al Pacino, to be written and directed by David Mamet.

Harvey Phillip Spector in the mid and late ‘50s lived in Los Angeles around the Fairfax area district in an Hayworth Ave. apartment he shared with his widowed mother Bertha and sister Shirley. His father Ben was an ironworker in Brooklyn, who had taken his own life when Phil was 9 years old.

Phil Spector was born Harvey Phillip Spector. He never liked the name Harvey, which was used throughout his childhood in New York, then in L.A. at John Burroughs Junior High School.

As a teenager in L.A. in the early 1950s, Harvey Phillip Spector was glued to the sounds of the AM radio dial. He loved Patti Page singing “I Went To Your Wedding” and the Chordettes’ “Born To Be With You.” He discovered “Work With Me Annie” on a bus ride through the city of the Angels. Phil’s life was altered when he heard songs like “60 Minute Man” and “Treasure Of Love” on the great R&B station KGFJ from DJ Hunter Hancock.

Harvey Spector had taken up guitar around 1953 at John Burroughs Junior High in the Los Angeles Wilshire Distict. Spector later attended Fairfax High School 1954-1957. Former students at the famed institution are Jerry Leiber, Stan Ross, Herb Alpert, Steven Douglas Kreisman, Larry Taylor, Elliot Ingber, James Ellroy, Larry Wildman Fischer, Bruce Botnick, Warren Etner, Warren Zevon, Anthony Kiedis, Michael (Flea) Balzary, Marlon and Jermaine Jackson, Slash, and myself.

At some point after entering Fairfax High, Phil made sure he was known only as Phil Spector to his friends and teachers. His name was legally changed to Phillip Spector (no Harvey) sometime around the middle of the 1960s.

During his Fairfax High stint, Phil hung around the music room, was a star history pupil in Mr. Goetze’s history course, and learned French. Phil’s mother Bertha was born in Paris, France.

Phil Spector had a pre-destined relationship and connection to the television screen. In 1958, with The Teddy Bears, he was a guest on Dick Clark’s “American Bandstand” promoting “To Know Him Is To Love Him.”

The Teddy Bears, Bobby Darin and Ritchie Valens were on episodes of NBC’s “Pik A Platter” that Buddy Bregman hosted in 1958. The group appeared in 1959 on the “Kraft Music Hall with Perry Como.” Spector then formed and recorded with the Phil Harvey Band circa 1959.

Writer and author James Ellroy around all his crime investigations and published books never spoke to Spector about his 1957-1960 job as a part-time court stenographer, after business school, in downtown Los Angeles, including the well documented Lana Turner/Cheryl Crane and Johnny Stompanato murder trial.

Phil’s mother Bertha had encouraged him to learn stenography so he could have something to fall back on if the music thing didn’t work out. Spector did the keypunch typing sometimes on the infamous “Red Light Bandit” Caryl Chessman case and consequently provided transcripts to “The Herald-Express” newspaper back then. At the same time Phil did some stringer work for television host Tom Duggan, and Paul Coates’ legendary black & white TV program, “L.A. Confidential.”

After attending Los Angeles City College, learning French, and subsequently dropping out of UCLA, Spector then relocated in 1960 to New York. This was a period just before Phil “studied” the master songwriters and producers, Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, and chose to work for them instead of doing translation work as a U.N. interpreter for Fidel Castro. Spector met Castro twice in a hotel room. A couple of Phil’s high school pals told me proudly that he played the guitar solo on The Drifter’s “On Broadway” session produced by Leiber and Stoller during his tenure with them.

In December 2005 I talked to songwriter, author and recording producer pioneer and a former partner in Atlantic Records with Ahmet and Nesuhi Ertegun, Jerry Wexler.

Wexler was more than happy to offer his opinions on Spector. Jerry still saw him yearly at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame meetings in New York. “He was sleeping on the couch at the Atlantic Records offices when I first met him and had a scam going using the switchboard after hours,” chuckled the then 88 year old avatar.

Wexler penned the liner notes to a mid-‘70s Phil Spector International label album “The Law, The Language and Lenny Bruce,” after producing his own monumental records with Ruth Brown, Ray Charles, The Drifters, Aretha Franklin, Sam and Dave, Wilson Pickett, Dusty Springfield, Cher, Lulu, Willie Nelson, Dire Straits and Bob Dylan. They have a deep bond. “I’m still very fond of him,” discloses Wexler

“All of Phil’s aggressions and talents were apparent to us at Atlantic when he was a kid. He was brash, cocky and talented. Ahmet Ertegun took him out to L.A. for a business and record meeting with Bobby Darin when Bobby was cruising on the charts. And Phil insulted Bobby, dismissing some of the records. That was Phil. A pop genius like Jerry Leiber,” states Wexler.

The Leiber and Spector songwriting team wrote “Spanish Harlem,” that was Lenny Bruce’s favorite song.

“I respect Phil. He could do it all. The song and the recording existed in his brain. Phil’s records were made in his head before he even entered the recording studio. When Phil went into the studio, it came out of him, like Minerva coming out of Jupiter’s head. Every instrument had its role to play, and it was all prefigured. The singer was just one tile in this intaglio.

“How could I later argue with the results and success when Phil really became a record producer with his Wall of Sound and his studio mesh of instruments? Although I like records with more definition,” concludes Wexler, who shaped everyone’s record collection and also coined the term “rhythm and blues” when he was a music reporter in the late forties.

Around that period, Phil co-wrote some songs for Johnny Nash and produced some sides on him for ABC-Paramount Records in 1961. He had first met Nash, and songwriter Tommy Boyce, during an Army physical examination. It was Nash who later helped Bob Marley as a songwriter and a publisher, and published “Stir It Up” which Marley and The Wailers recorded.

In the May 31, 1975 issue of “Melody Maker” I published an interview with Spector, culled from a series of conversations, in Hollywood at the Sherwood Oaks Experimental College, his own Beverly Hills residence, and some studio visits where he was producing Dion Di Mucci at Gold Star studios and a new singer, Jerri Bo Keno.

At the Hollywood Blvd. action-packed question and answer seminar, Spector responds to an inquiry on how he got started. “I was a young aspiring guitar player.

“I played on some of Big Mama Thornton’s records. I always wanted to be a producer. There’s an old story I’ve told before. ‘OK. Let’s play baseball. You be the pitcher, you’re the catcher, and you’re the batter. Spector, you be the producer.’ I was always into that.

“Dave Bartholomew, Sam Phillips-I wanted to know about the people behind the scenes. The guy who played the solo in ‘Rock Around The Clock.’ The tape echo sound. These things interested me. They were exciting.

“I played on records before I made ‘em. I worked with Leiber and Stoller. Anyway, the only way you get into the record business is to make a record. I believed in individual distribution which nobody did at the time. You can’t do that today. The big companies will eat you up and spit you out.

“We made a lot of records, played on sessions by the Drifters, the guitar on ‘On Broadway,’ ‘Lavender Blue,’ ‘To Know Him Is To Love Him,’ the first one. That was the one I was gonna kick ass with. I was part of the group the Teddy Bears. We did the Perry Como show.’

I asked Spector at the time a question about recording.

“I like to have all the musicians there at once,” explained Spector of his philosophy of recording. “I get everything on one track that I need. I put everything on 24 tracks just to see if it’s plugged in. The finished track never ends up on more than one track.

“I don’t wear a ‘Back To Mono’ button for no reason at all. I believe in it. I can make quad, it’s easy.

“I record in a strange way. I haven’t changed. I go from the basic track and put it onto 24. Then I have one track and 23 open. That’s the difference between having 24 filled or 19 filled. Which means, I can get 23 string players and overdub them 10 times and have 200 strings then I put them on one track.

“My engineer was scared to death to work with me. When I record I put everything on tape echo, everything. My engineer said, ‘You’re out of your mind.’ Do you know Ray Conniff uses more tape echo than I ever used in my life? That’s a fact.

“I record basic tracks and then put it all onto one track or maybe two. Then I condense. I put my voices on.

“I’ve used Barney Kessel all the time for the last ten years. Terry Gibbs on vibes…everybody. The better the talent is around you, the better the people you have working with you, the more concerned, the better you’re gonna come off as a producer, like a teacher in a class.

“The musicians I have never outdo me. I’m not in competition with them. I’m in complete accord with them. You need the ability so you hire the best. I have the creativity. I know what I want.”

Stan Ross with Dave Gold, Larry Levine and their immortal studio, Gold Star, made overt and subtle sound contributions to Phil Spector’s studio undertakings.

Ross was born in 1929 in Brooklyn New York, and moved with his parents to Los Angeles at age 15. Stan then enrolled at Los Angeles’ Fairfax High in 1946. Ross wrote a music column in the “Fairfax Colonial Gazette” called “Musical Downbeat.”

Ross worked at Electro-Vox for four years as a teenager and studied recording from a pioneer of modern disc recording Bert B. Gottschalk. Ross made one hit record there: “Deck Of Cards” by T. Texas Tyler.

Gold Star garnered more Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) “Songs of the Century” and Grammy Hall of Fame winners than any other independent studio in America.

One of Ross’ first field -recording assignments was for then area Congressman Richard M. Nixon and his infamous ‘Pink Lady’ campaign.

David Gold created the sound effect that imbued and enhanced the creation of “Alvin & The Chipmunks” memorable recordings. The reason why the “father” character was named “David.” Gold’s additional personal credits list Ronald Reagan’s recorded promo spots with the television stars of each weeks series for four seasons of the historic “General Electric” TV broadcasts done at Reagan’s ranch, home or at Universal Studios. Reagan’s G.E. Theater speaking engagements helped him prepare for his first successful run for California governor and then President of the United States.

The studio origins of Gold Star and the Ross and Gold client bookings were not lost on teenage Phil Spector when he first knocked on the door.

“We used studio A. Eddie Cochran used our Studio B. down the stairs by the parking lot,” remembers Stan. “I cut ‘Tequila’ there by The Champs. Phil followed in a studio tradition. I did a whole lot of Eddie Cochran’s records including ‘Summertime Blues,’ ‘20 Flight Rock,’ and ‘C’mon Everybody.’ The vocal of Ritchie Valens’ ‘Oh Donna’ was recorded at Gold Star. The backing track was done up the street at Bob Keene’s studio who owned Del-Fi Records.

The Wrecking Crew membership began with the slow demise of the studio system in Hollywood at the big movie companies in the 1950s. Large orchestras started getting replaced by smaller session calls for movie and television soundtracks in addition to rock ‘n’ roll dates that were now getting booked by record producers and music supervision executives.

Stan Ross was present for Phil on his 1958 Teddy Bear’s record, “To Know Him Is To Love Him,” and a plethora of Spector production bookings 1962-1966.

In a 2000 interview in “Goldmine,” Ross described the history and the mystery of the Gold Star world. “Gold Star used to be a dentist’s office. We started pulling teeth a different way,” he jokes. Gold Star was built in 1950 and lasted until 1983 at 6252 Santa Monica Blvd until a fire destroyed the property in 1984.

“Gold Star was built for the songwriters,” touts Ross. “They were fun, wonderful people to be around: Jimmy Van Heusen, Sonny Burke, Jimmy McHugh.”

The studio origins and original client bookings were not lost on teenaged Phil Spector. “He was as concerned as they were about the song – one of the reasons Phil’s songs have durability and are copied. I thought things we did with The Paris Sisters were terrific,” he continues. “I saw a lot of growth with Phil very early. The day he first walked in I explained to him the studio policy of buying time by the hour and a role of tape I had to be firm ‘cause I didn’t want 20 more Phil Spectors coming in.”

Ross also re-examined the room and their famous echo chamber. “It gave it the wall of sound feel. Dave (Gold) built the equipment and echo chamber. We had so much fun with that echo chamber; it never sounded the same way twice. Gold Star brought a feeling, an emotional feeling. Gold Star was not a dead studio, but a live studio. The room was 30 X 40.

“It was all tube microphones,” he stresses. “We kept tubes on longer than anyone else. Because we understood that when a kick drum kicks into a tube it’s not going to distort. A tube can expand. The microphones with tubes were better than the ones without the tubes because if you don’t have a tube and you hit it heavy, suddenly it breaks up. But when you have a tube it’s warm and emotional. It gets bigger and it expands. It allows for impulse.

“Phil appreciated mono. But we did back up with multi-track. So, if he wanted to go back to the four track, he would. He never did, ‘cause if he didn’t hear it, it wasn’t right. “When it came to multi-track you could put everything on mono. The bass drum, the guitars and keep it. Once you have it on mono, it never changes. It will be the same on Wednesday then the previous Tuesday, the same sound. So when you do transfer from one track to four tracks, it’s OK. And to that you can add voices, never losing the quality of the bass drum track, because it’s been transferred, it hasn’t been disturbed. You took the mono and transferred it to track one of a four track, tracks two, three and four are for voices and guitar fills. You follow? Everything is a fresh generation. It saves you from having to overdub four generations. You have less highs and less sibilance. And, we didn’t use pop filters and wind screens, we got mouth noises. Isn’t that life?

“Phil was pretty proud of himself. He served the song. He worked for the tape. He knew what he could get away with and what he couldn’t and he appreciated whatever suggestions Larry or myself would give him. He never closed his mind to anything. He was always open minded. He was very emotional about his records. He felt that this was like his life. As much as I love children, he was in love with his songs. They were his children,” says Ross

Gold Star also served as the recording “home” of ABC-TV’s first prime time Rock & Roll series, “Shindig!”

Jazz was captured on the sacred grounds: Oscar Moore, Gerry Mulligan, Mundell Lowe, Chet Baker, Louis Bellson’s big swing band, and The Hi-Los. Arranger Gene Page did the soundtrack “Blakula” on the lot while even William Shatner delivered his spoken word narration of “Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds” at this dream factory house of worship.

Stan Ross was behind the console for Jewel Aikens’ “The Birds and The Bees,” the first use of chorused guitar and was a favorite 45 RPM of Rolling Stones’ Brian Jones, which provided the sound of a guitar plugged through a Leslie speaker, giving it an organ-like effect. Cream’s “Badge,” and The Beatles’ “Let It Be” later fused the string-to-Leslie air-pumped speaker innovation.

Kit Lambert produced The Who’s “Call Me Lightning” at Gold Star and mixed their “I Can See For Miles” in the facility as well. Charles Wright & The Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band cut “Express Yourself” in the location. Shelby Flint sung “Angel On My Shoulder” as well. The famed room also delivered Ritchie Valens’ “La Bamba” and “Endless Sleep” by Jody Reynolds, one of Bob Dylan’s all-time records. Gold Star was the mid wife for the album version of Buffalo Springfield’s “Mr. Soul.”

“Jungle Hop” by Don & Dewey introduced the first electronically distorted guitar. Spector’s production of “Zip A Dee Do Dah” was the first distorted lead guitar on a hit record. Gold Star also developed phasing, DT (Double-tracking) and flanging techniques.

Dave Gold, Ross and engineer Larry Levine integrated the concept of phase-shifting or “phasing” a sweeping effect that incorporated electronic music on their hit record “The Big Hurt” by vocalist Miss Toni Fisher. Larry cut the basic track and Stan infused the phasing.

Dobie Gray’s “The In Crowd,” Johnny Crawford’s “Cindy’s Birthday,” and “Call Me,” courtesy of Chris Montez, were baked in that building. As was Thee Midnighters’ AM radio anthem, “Land of 1000 Dances.”

Brian Wilson was a regular Gold Star visitor and customer for many years. In that room he produced The Beach Boys’ “Do You Wanna Dance,” “I Just Wasn’t Made For These Times,” that featured the initial usage of Therimin on a pop recording, “Wouldn’t It Be Nice,” and the original version of “Heroes & Villains” at Gold Star. Brian mentioned to me in 2009 that he thought Gold Star’s tack piano was very good.

Stan Ross and Dave Gold’s studio clients included Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass, Sonny & Cher, Buffalo Springfield, Brian Wilson with The Beach Boys, The Cascades, Iron Butterfly, Cher, the Cake, The Chipmunks, Bob Dylan, Clydie King, Art Garfunkel, Dick Dale, Bobby Darin, Black Oak Arkansas, Minnie Ripperton, Johnny Burnette, Ray Ruff, Thee Midniters, Donna Loren, Josie & The Pussy Cats, David Briggs, The Sunrays, Mark and the Escorts, Jon & The Nightriders, Dillards, Tim Hardin, Beau Brummels, The Murmaids, Jackie De Shannon, Led Zeppelin, Hoyt Axton, Mystic Moods Orchestra, Robin Ward, George Carlin and Jack Burns, Donna Loren, The Misunderstood, Duane Eddy, Margie Rayburn, Kim Fowley, Runaways, Marlon Brando, The Band, Go-Gos, Ramones, The Seeds, The Monkees, MFQ and the Turtles.

“Gold Star felt and sounded different than any other L.A. studio,” explains the Turtles’ Howard Kaylan, who recorded “The Story of Rock & Roll” pop gem and other wonderful tunes like “Eleanor” there in addition to their revolutionary LP, “The Battle of the Bands,” produced by Chip Douglas.

“You could literally smell the tubes inside the mixing board as they heated up. There was a richness to the sound that Western and United, our usual studios, never had. Those two rooms sounded ‘clean’ while Gold Star felt fat and funky. Perhaps we were all reading too much of the Spector legacy into the room, but I don’t think so. Our recordings from Gold Star always just sounded better to me. I miss that room,” admits Kaylan, whose band with Mark Volman, the Turtles sold 41 million records and had 9 Top Ten hits of their own.

“I went to Gold Star my first day in Hollywood when I was an adult,” proclaims Kim Fowley, “I was the campus correspondent for ‘Dig’ Magazine. I went to the Champs’ ‘Tequila’ session. They bought me lunch. I later mastered ‘Alley-Oop’ by the Hollywood Argyles that I co-produced there. And I produced ‘Popsicles and Icicles” by The Murmaids there. I had two number one records out of Gold Star. I liked the room. The echo chambers and there were good vibes. It was a magical scenario on many levels.

“There were five editions of The Runaways. As a trio the first one made demos at Gold Star with Stan Ross engineering. At Gold Star studio one day I asked Brian Wilson, ‘What is the basis of your songwriting?’ And he said, ‘Well, school is nine months a year and the summer holidays are three months and you write about that and getting in trouble with your parents.’”

Gold Star regulars Charlie Greene and Brian Stone were managers and producers, real show biz operators, who represented Buffalo Springfield, Iron Butterfly, The Poor, Bob Lind, The Cake, Dr. John, Jackie De Shannon and Sonny & Cher.

“All I Really Want To Do” Cher’s first solo hit came out of the room, along the duo’s “The Beat Goes On” and Sony Bono’s solo masterpiece, “Laugh At Me.” The soundtrack to Sonny & Cher’s movie “Good Times” as well. De Shannon subsequently did her “Laurel Canyon” LP there, and years later, the original demo of her song “Betty Davis Eyes.”

The Band even recorded some songs at Gold Star. The recent re-mastered and expanded “Music From Big Pink” Band album adds new “bonus” tracks “Key To The Highway” and “Long Distance Operator” culled an outing at the Gold Star shrine.

Their “Music From Big Pink” was done at Capitol Studios on Vine Street in Hollywood, with some additional sessions held down the same street at Gold Star in 1968.

“We were doing some recording at the studio at Capitol Records in Hollywood and it was one thing, but there was such talk about just ‘the vibe’ and ‘the sound’ at this other place, Gold Star,” Robbie Robertson informed me in an interview I conducted with him in 2003.

“We were kind of off the clock, and we were going to record some things that weren’t necessary going to be on the record, so we thought, ‘let’s just go and check it out.’ I think we were only there one day or two days. And there’s two other tracks that we did there that I don’t know what’s become of those.”

In 2008, Gold Star’s own history was displayed in a documentary, “The Wrecking Crew’ by filmmaker Denny Tedesco, son of jazz guitarist and session man, Tommy Tedesco. The movie chronicles the1950-1983 world of Gold Star and the session players.

In 2008, The Wrecking Crew got honored with an induction into The RockWalk of Fame in front of Guitar Center store in Hollywood, Ca.

No story on Gold Star or about Phil Spector would be complete without citing resident recording engineer, Larry Levine, who died in 2008 on his 80th birthday.

Levine won a Grammy in 1965 for his work on Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass’ “A Taste of Honey.” Alpert later recruited Levine to design and oversee the first recording studio B at A&M Records modeled after Dave Gold’s “compact” studio blueprints developed and first installed at Gold Star.

Levine engineered albums for Eddie Cochran, The Beach Boys, Sonny and Cher, Wings, the Carpenters, Dr. John, and reunited with Spector in the late 70s working on albums by Leonard Cohen and The Ramones.

In addition, Levine engineered The Ramones’ “End Of The Century” (with Boris Menart and assisted by Bruce Gold) had his own memories about the magical Gold Star and Spector pairing when we talked in 2002.

I spoke with Larry Levine about all his work with Spector and on the classic Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass albums he engineered at Gold Star an later at A&M Studios. We also chatted about Burt Bacharach, a former A&M Records solo artist.

Larry offers an observation he has on Spector’s studio philosophy. “I used to have a theory [that] part of the reason we took so long in actually recording the songs was that Phil needed to tire out the musicians—[til] they weren’t playing as individuals, but would meld into the sound that Phil had in his head.”

“Good musicians start out and play as individuals and strive to play what Phil wants. As far as the room sound and the drum sound went, because the rooms were small, with low ceilings, the drum sound, unlike other studios with isolation, your drums sounded the way you wanted them to sound. They would change accordingly to whatever leakage was involved.

“As a matter of fact,” Levine continues, “Phil once said to me the bane of his recording existence was the drum sound. A lot of people attribute to echo to what Phil was doing. The echo enhanced the melding of ‘the wall of sound,’ but it didn’t create it. Within the room itself, all of this was happening and the echo was glue that kept it together.”

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Concord Records is celebrating the 80th birthday of the legendary Ray Charles with a special gift for his legions of fans: “Rare Genius: The Undiscovered Masters.” This treasure trove of newly discovered recordings, highlighted by a duet with fellow icon Johnny Cash, will become available at physical and digital retailers October 26, 2010.

Culled from four decades worth of demos and other previously unreleased material, Rare Genius showcases the remarkable artistic vision, stylistic range and emotionally rich vocals that crafted Charles enduring legacy.

Listening to the ten gems from the ’70s, ’80s and ’90s that comprise this CD, fans will have no trouble envisioning the late singer rocking back and forth at the piano as he effortlessly segues between R&B/soul, pop, country and gospel. “Ray would always get inside the meaning of a lyric and make the listener believe every word,” says Concord Music Group Chief Creative Officer. John Burk. “His vocals carried incredible emotion and intensity, even on demo tapes. What we have here with Rare Genius is on par with some of his greatest works.”

And that’s crystal clear right from the album’s sparkling opener, “Love’s Gonna Bite You Back.” The March 1980 session track features an upbeat horn arrangement behind what Rare Genius liner notes author Bill Dahl calls “a Charles vocal that’s a signature mixture of sandpaper grit and heavenly goodness.” Up next is the ballad “It Hurts to Be in Love,” which underscores the album’s main thematic focus and one of Charles’ favorite subjects: the ups and down of romance.

Another compelling standout is the gospel-stirred Charles and Cash duet on Kris Kristofferson’s “Why Me, Lord?” Discovered in the Sony vaults, the song was produced by Billy Sherrill in Nashville and recorded in 1981 for an anticipated release on a CBS album. For unknown reasons, that didn’t come to pass. What’s more important, however, is the emotional charge you get listening to these two powerful voices come together in this spirited and inspired pairing.

Except for “Lord,” the nine other Rare Genius tracks including the soul-drenched “I Don’t Want No One But You,” a blues-infused cover of songwriter Hank Cochran’s country classic “A Little Bitty Tear” and the joyous “I’m Gonna Keep on Singin’” were found in the vault at Charles’ R.P.M. International studios in Los Angeles. Adding a little sweetening to some of the sparse, stripped-down tracks was a team of top-notch musicians and artists: guitarists Keb’ Mo’ and George Doering, organist Bobby Sparks, trumpeter Gray Grant, trombonist Alan Kaplan, bassists Trey Henry and Chuck Berghofer, drummers Gregg Field and Ray Brinker and background vocalist Eric Benet.

As with its Concord predecessor, 2004’s Grammy-winning Album of the Year Genius Loves Company, Rare Genius: The Undiscovered Masters is another fitting tribute to Charles, who would have turned 80 on September 23. It’s a fresh, vibrant reaffirmation of the music icon’s unparalleled artistry and legacy.

“Rare Genius – The Undiscovered Masters”
TRACK LIST:

1.    Love’s Gonna Bite You Back (copyright control)
2.    It Hurts To Be in Love (Julius Dixon-Rudolph Toombs)
3.    Wheel of Fortune (Bennie Benjamin-George David Weiss)
4.    I’m Gonna Keep on Singin’  (copyright control)
5.    There’ll Be Some Changes Made (William Blackstone-Benton Overstreet)
6.    Isn’t It Wonderful (Limuel Taylor-Joel Webster)
7.    I Don’t Want No One But You (copyright control)
8.    A Little Bitty Tear (Hank Cochran)
9.    She’s Gone (copyright control)
10.  Why Me, Lord? featuring Johnny Cash (Kris Kristofferson)

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Mar 13 IL, Schaumburg. Music Marketplace, Radisson Hotel 1725 E. Algonquin Rd., just W. of Rt. 53, SH: 10am-4pm, T: 6’, F: $40., A: $3. Bill, PH: 847-409-9656.

Mar 13 MI, Royal Oak. Collector Mania Show & Sale, Farmers Market. 316 E. Eleven Mile Rd., SH: 9am-3pm, F: $30. ea. or $75. ea for 3, A: $4., under 12 free. J&J Classic Productions, 28071 Gratiot Ave., Roseville, MI 48066. PH: 586-775-3289 day or 586-790-6290 evenings.

Mar 13 NJ, Wayne. 2nd Sat. Record & CD Colloctors Show, Firemen’s Conv. Ctr. 97 Parish Dr. SH: 10am-4pm, T: 100, A: $6., under 12 free. F. Falk PO Box 251, Hamburg, NJ 07419. PH: 973-209-6067. www.showsandexpos.com

Mar 14 IL, Hillside. Chicagoland Record Collectors Show, Best Western. 4400 Frontage Rd., SH: 9am-4pm, T: 85-8’, F: $45., A: $3. John Govi, 3045 Worcester Ln., Aurora, IL 60504. PH: 630-898-1533 eves.

Mar 14 NJ, Springfield. Greater NJ Record & CD Show, Holiday Inn. Rt. 22 W., SH: 10am-4pm, F: $75, A: $6., $3. seniors, under 12 free. PH: 908-995-4570.

Mar 14 OH, Toledo. Record Show. 2458 Termainsville Rd., SH: 9am-4pm, A: $1. PH: 419-833-5040.

Mar 14 PA, Lancaster. Pennsylvania Music Expo, Continental Inn. 2285 Lincoln Hwy. E., SH: 9am-3pm, A: free. Keystone Record Collectors, PH: 717-898-1246 or www.recordcollectors.org

Mar 14 WI, Appleton. Fox Valley Vinyl Record Show, Wave Bar & Ballroom. 2350 N. Casaloma Dr., SH: 10am-3pm, T: 8’, F: $35., A: $3. Jim, PH: 920-733-5076.

Mar 14 MB, Winnipeg. Rockin’ Richard’s Record & CD Show, Victoria Inn. 1808 Wellington Ave., SH: 10am-4pm, A: $4. Richard or Alex, PH: 204-338-3655.

Mar 14 ON, Guelph. Record & CD Show, Best Westwern. 716 Gordon St., SH: 10:30am-4pm, A: $4. Ray, PH: 905-777-1763 or www.vibrations.ca

Mar 19-20 TX, Austin. Spring Record Convention, SXSW Music Festival, Convention Ctr. SH: 10am-6pm. www.austinrecords.com

Mar 20-21 FL, West Palm Beach. Elvis Collectables Show, Hilton Palm Beach Airport. PH: 561-452-4573.

Mar 20 MI, Lansing. Record & CD Collectors Show, Quality Inn. 3121 E. Grand River Ave., SH: 11am-4pm, T: 6’, F: $30., A: free. Wildwood Records, Ken, PH: 574-329-1483.

Mar 20 NY, New York City. Record & CD Collectors Expo, Holiday Inn. (Formerly Days Inn) 440 W. 57th St., btw. 9th & 10th Aves., SH: 10am-4pm, T: 100, A: $6., under 12 free. F. Falk, PO Box 251, Hamburg, NJ 07419. PH: 973-209-6067. www.showsandexpos.com

Mar 20 PA, Allentown. Original 22nd Semi-Annual 45-78 RPM Record Expo, Merchants Square. 12th & Vultee Sts., SH: 10am-?, T: 8’, A: $3. Surround Sound Prods., 801 N. Broad St., Wescosville, PA 18106. PH: 610-530-7606 or 797-7743 day of show.

Mar 21 IN, Fort Wayne. Record & CD Collectors Show, Franke Park Zoo Pavillion #1. 3411 Sherman Blvd., I-69, Exit 109A, SH: 11am-5pm, T: 58-5’, F: $25.-$45., A: free. Wildwood Records, Ken, PH: 574-329-1483 or Mark, PH: 260-482-2525 eves.

Mar 21 IN, Indianapolis. Music Collectors’, Convention, Ramada Inn. I-465 & Pendleton Pike, SH: 10am-3pm, F: $35. one week in advance, $40. thereafter, A: $3., under 12 free with adult. Alpha Records & Music, Gerald Ruark, POB 17575, Indianapolis, IN 46217. PH: 317-882-3378.

Mar 21 MD, Arbutus. Record & CD Show, Fire Hall. 5200 Southwestern Blvd., SH: 9am-3pm, T: 120-5’, F: $30., A: free. Ray Quigley, 1 Colgate Ct., Baltimore, MD 21228. PH: 410-455-0418.

Mar 21 NY, Massapequa. LI Record & CD Lovers Faire, American Legion. Broadway & Veterans Blvd., SH: 10am-3pm, T: 70, A: $5., under 12 free. F. Falk, PO Box 251, Hamburg, NJ 07419. PH: 973-209-6067. www.showsandexpos.com

Mar 21 PA, Allentown. Spring 2010 Lehigh Valley Music Expo, Merchants Square. 12th & Vultee Sts., SH: 10am-?, T: 8’, F: $55. in advance, $65. thereafter, A: $3. Surround Sound Prods., 801 N. Broad St., Wescosville, PA 18106. PH: 610-530-7606 or 797-7743 day of show.

Mar 27 AZ, Phoenix. Record Swap Meet, AZ American Italian Club. 7509 N. 12th St., SH: 9am-1pm, F: $20. for 1, $15. ea. add’l., A: $5.-$2. Sam, PH: 602-265-9853 or www.rare-az.org

Mar 27 WI, Green Bay. Record Convention, Days Inn City Ctr. 406 N. Washington St., SH: 10am-4pm, T: 8’, F: $40., A: $2. Jeff, PH: 920-562-1050.

Mar 28 CA, Buena Park. Greater Orange County Record Show, UFCW Union Hall. 8530 Stanton Ave., SH: 10am-3pm, T: 8’, F: $65., A: $3. Steve Brunner, PH: 626-963-9717 or www.asavinyl.com/record_show.htm

Mar 28 IN, South Bend. Record & CD Collectors Show, Comfort Suites. 52939 Indiana 933, corner of Cleveland Rd., SH: 11am-5pm, T: 56-6’, F: $30., A: free. Wildwood Records, Ken, PH: 574-329-1483.

Mar 28 NC, Carrboro. CD & Record Show, Century Ctr., Century Hall. 100 N. Greensboro St., SH: 12noon-6pm, T: 40-6’, F: $45., A: free. Gerry Williams, PH: 919-260-0661.

Mar 28 PA, Scranton-Wilkes Barre. NY CD Record Fair, The Woodlands. 1073 Rt. 315 (Exit 170B, I-81) to Exit 1 off Ramp, SH: 10am-5pm, T: 75-8’, F: $70. for 1st, $60. ea. add’l, A: free. Jack Skutnik, 7 Charmel Dr., Binghamton, NY 13901. PH: 607-648-4997 or FAX: 607-648-9626.

Apr 3 NY, New York. Music Memorabilia Show, Tip Top Shoe Bldg. 155 W. 72nd St., 4th Floor, SH: 10am-2pm, A: free. PH: 212-579-0689 weekdays or www.musiccollecting.com

Apr 10 GA, Savannah. Record Fair, River Club. 3 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., SH: 10am-6pm, T: 6’, F: $50., A: free. Kim Herrington, PH: 912-525-5502 or www.savannahrecordfair.com

Apr 10 NJ, Wayne. 2nd Sat. Record & CD Colloctors Show, Firemen’s Conv. Ctr. 97 Parish Dr. SH: 10am-4pm, T: 100, A: $6., under 12 free. F. Falk PO Box 251, Hamburg, NJ 07419. PH: 973-209-6067. www.showsandexpos.com

Apr 11 CA, Newark. Music Swap Meet, Pavilion. 6430 Thornton Ave., corner of Thornton & Cherry, SH: 8:30am-1pm, F: $45.-$60., A: $3. Charlene White, PH: 408-263-5127.

Apr 11 CO, Denver. Record Collector’s Expo, Ramada Plaza. I-25 & 120th Ave., T: 6’, F: $60., A: $2. PH: 303-238-0433 or www.bigk.com

Apr 11 MA, Dedham. New England Compact Disc & Record Expo, Holiday Inn. 20 min. S. of Boston, Rt. 1, SH: 10am-4pm, A: $5. PH: 781-986-4538.

Apr 11 NY, Utica. NY CD & Record Fair, Deerfield Fire Hall. 5476 Trenton Rd. (Exit 31 NYS T-Way), SH: 10am-5pm, T: 60-8’, F: $60., A: free. Jack Skutnik, 7 Charmel Dr., Binghamton, NY 13901. PH: 607-648-4997 or FAX: 607-648-9626.

Apr 11 WI, Milwaukee. Music Marketplace, American Serb Hall. 5101 W. Oklahoma Ave., SH: 10am-4pm, T: 8’, F: $45., A: $3. Bill, PH: 847-409-9656.

Apr 17 NY, New York City. Classical Music Expo, The Inn. (Formerly Days Inn) 440 W. 57th St., btw. 9th & 10th Aves., SH: 10am-4pm, T: 70, A: $6., under 12 free. F. Falk, PO Box 251, Hamburg, NJ 07419. PH: 973-209-6067. www.showsandexpos.com

Apr 17 NY, New York City. Record & CD Collectors Expo, Holiday Inn. (Formerly Days Inn) 440 W. 57th St., btw. 9th & 10th Aves., SH: 10am-4pm, T: 100, A: $6., under 12 free. F. Falk, PO Box 251, Hamburg, NJ 07419. PH: 973-209-6067. www.showsandexpos.com

Apr 18 MD, Arbutus. Record & CD Show, Fire Hall. 5200 Southwestern Blvd., SH: 9am-3pm, T: 120-5’, F: $30., A: free. Ray Quigley, 1 Colgate Ct., Baltimore, MD 21228. PH: 410-455-0418.

Apr 18 MI, Ann Arbor. Monster Record & CD Show, Webers Inn. 3050 Jackson Rd., Exit 172 off I-94, SH: 10am-4pm, T: 60-8’, F: $45., A: $3. Ken, PH: 574-329-1483.

Apr 18 NE, Omaha. Music Collector’s Show, Firefighters Union Hall. 60th & Grover, SH: 10am-4pm, T: 8’, F: $40., A: $2. Tim, PH: 712-328-8731 or 402-660-3525.

Apr 18 NY, Binghamton. NY CD & Record Fair, The Days Inn. 65 Front St. (I-81 Exit 5), SH: 10am-5pm, T: 75-8’, F: $70. for 1st, $60. for 2nd, A: free. Jack Skutnik, 7 Charmel Dr., Binghamton, NY 13901. PH: 607-648-4997 or FAX: 607-648-9626.

Apr 18 OH, Cincinnati. Music Collectors’ Convention, Crown Plaza Hotel. Pfeiffer Rd. & I-75, SH: 10am-3pm, F: $35. one week in advance, F: $40. thereafter, A: $3., under 12 free with adult. Alpha Records & Music, Gerald Ruark, POB 17575, Indianapolis, IN 46217. PH: 317-882-3378.

Apr 25 CA, Buena Park. Greater Orange County Record Show, UFCW Union Hall. 8530 Stanton Ave., SH: 10am-3pm, T: 8’, F: $65., A: $3. Steve Brunner, PH: 626-963-9717 or www.asavinyl.com/record_show.htm

Apr 25 MI, Kalamazoo. Record & CD Collectors Show, County Fairgrounds. 2900 Lake St., Sprinkle Street Exit from I-94 N., SH: 11am-5pm, T: 36-8’, F: $40., A: free. Wildwood Records, Ken, PH: 574-329-1483.

Apr 25 NY, Buffalo. Record & CD Show, Leonard VFW Post. 2450 Walden Ave., 1 mi. E. of Thruway Exit 52E, SH: 10am-4:30pm, T: 53-8’, F: $60., A: $3. Record Baron, PH: 716-871-8722.

Apr 25 NY, Colonie. Rock N Roll Flea Market, Albany Marriott. 189 Wolf Rd., SH: 10am-6pm, F: $82.50, F: $10. Felix, iavarone222@hotmail.com

Apr 30-May 1 AL, Birmingham-Bessemer. ARCA 29th Annual CD & Record Collectors Show, Civic Ctr. Exit 108 off of I-59, T: 8’, F: $60., SH: Fri. 4pm-9pm, Sat. 9am-5pm, A: $3. PH: 205-655-3108 or www.alabamarecordcollectors.org

May 1 NY, Ithaca. NY CD & Record Fair, Womens Community Bldg. 100 W. Seneca St., SH: 10am-5pm, T: 40, A: free. Jack Skutnik, 7 Charmel Dr., Binghamton, NY 13901. PH: 607-648-4997 or FAX: 607-648-9626.

May 1 NY, New York. Music Memorabilia Show, Tip Top Shoe Bldg. 155 W. 72nd St., 4th Floor, SH: 10am-2pm, A: free. PH: 212-579-0689 weekdays or www.musiccollecting.com

May 2 AL, Huntsville-Madison. Record & CD Show, Holiday Inn West. 9035 Madison Blvd., Exit I-565 at Wall-Triana (Madison) Exit, SH: 10am-5pm, A: free. Show Logic Productions, PO Box 245, Warner Robins, GA 31099. PH: 478-737-0668. www.myspace.com/showlogicproductions

May 2 FL, Ft. Lauderdale. Record & CD Show, Roadway Airport Inn. 2440 State Rd. 84 (just W. of I-95), SH: 10am-3pm, A: $5. John Miller, PH: 954-815-7625.

May 2 IN, Indianapolis. Music Collectors’, Convention, Ramada Inn. I-465 & Pendleton Pike, SH: 10am-3pm, F: $35. one week in advance, $40. thereafter, A: $3., under 12 free with adult. Alpha Records & Music, Gerald Ruark, POB 17575, Indianapolis, IN 46217. PH: 317-882-3378.

May 6 WI, Appleton. Fox Valley Vinyl Record Show, Wave Bar & Ballroom. 2350 N. Casaloma Dr., SH: 10am-3pm, T: 8’, F: $35., A: $3. Jim, PH: 920-733-5076.

May 8 FL, Tampa. Record & CD Show. 4732 N. Dale Mabry Hwy., SH: 10am-3pm, F: $45., A: $4. Richard Rounds, 1547 55th Ave. N., St. Petersburg, FL 33703. PH: 727-251-9458.

May 8 NJ, Wayne. 2nd Sat. Record & CD Colloctors Show, Firemen’s Conv. Ctr. 97 Parish Dr. SH: 10am-4pm, T: 100, A: $6., under 12 free. F. Falk PO Box 251, Hamburg, NJ 07419. PH: 973-209-6067. www.showsandexpos.com

May 9 CA, San Francisco. Rock ‘n Swap, University of San Francisco Campus. McLaren Hall, 2130 Fulton St., SH: 10am-3pm, F: $60., $35. ea. add’l., A: $3. KUSF, 2130 Fulton St., San Francisco, CA 94117. PH: 415-386-5873 or www.kusf.org/swap

May 15 IL, Skokie. 23rd Annual 2010 Midwest Classical Record Show, Holiday Inn. Northshore, 5300 W. Touhy Ave., SH: 9:30am-4pm, A: $2. Bob Craig, PH: 847-381-5820.

May 15 NY, New York City. Record & CD Collectors Expo, Holiday Inn. (Formerly Days Inn) 440 W. 57th St., btw. 9th & 10th Aves., SH: 10am-4pm, T: 100, A: $6., under 12 free. F. Falk, PO Box 251, Hamburg, NJ 07419. PH: 973-209-6067. www.showsandexpos.com

May 16 CT, Danbury. Record & CD Convention, Holiday Inn. Exit 8 off I-84, SH: 10am-5pm, F: $50., A: $4. Trash American Style, PH: 203-426-0306.

May 16 IL, Hillside. Chicagoland Record Collectors Show, Best Western. 4400 Frontage Rd., SH: 9am-4pm, T: 85-8’, F: $45., A: $3. John Govi, 3045 Worcester Ln., Aurora, IL 60504. PH: 630-898-1533 eves.

May 16 MI, Roseville. Metro Detroit Record Show, VFW Hall. 25671 Gratiot (N. of 10 Mile Rd.), SH: 10am-4pm, T: 8’, F: $40., A: $3. Al Campbell, PO Box 277, Warren, MI 48090. PH: 586-759-5133 eves.

May 16 ON, Kitchener. Record & CD Show, Holiday Inn. 30 Fairway Rd. S., SH: 10:30am-4pm, A: $4. Ray, PH: 905-777-1763 or www.vibrations.ca

May 22 MI, Lansing. Record & CD Collectors Show, Quality Inn. 3121 E. Grand River Ave., SH: 11am-4pm, T: 6’, F: $30., A: free. Wildwood Records, Ken, PH: 574-329-1483.

May 23 IN, Fort Wayne. Record & CD Collectors Show, Franke Park Zoo Pavillion #1. 3411 Sherman Blvd., I-69, Exit 109A, SH: 11am-5pm, T: 58-5’, F: $25.-$45., A: free. Wildwood Records, Ken, PH: 574-329-1483 or Mark, PH: 260-482-2525 eves.

May 23 MD, Arbutus. Record & CD Show, Fire Hall. 5200 Southwestern Blvd., SH: 9am-3pm, T: 120-5’, F: $30., A: free. Ray Quigley, 1 Colgate Ct., Baltimore, MD 21228. PH: 410-455-0418.

May 23 MA, Dedham. New England Compact Disc & Record Expo, Holiday Inn. 20 min. S. of Boston, Rt. 1, SH: 10am-4pm, A: $5. PH: 781-986-4538.

May 29 AZ, Phoenix. Record Swap Meet, AZ American Italian Club. 7509 N. 12th St., SH: 9am-1pm, F: $20. for 1, $15. ea. add’l., A: $5.-$2. Sam, PH: 602-265-9853 or www.rare-az.org

May 30 CA, Buena Park. Greater Orange County Record Show, UFCW Union Hall. 8530 Stanton Ave., SH: 10am-3pm, T: 8’, F: $65., A: $3. Steve Brunner, PH: 626-963-9717 or www.asavinyl.com/record_show.htm

Jun 6 PA, Allentown. Summer 2010 Lehigh Valley Music Expo, Merchants Square. 12th & Vultee Sts., SH: 10am-?, T: 8’, F: $55. in advance, $65. thereafter, A: $3. Surround Sound Prods., 801 N. Broad St., Wescosville, PA 18106. PH: 610-530-7606 or 797-7743 day of show.

Jun 6 TN, Nashville. Music Collectors’ Convention, Radisson Hotel. 1112 Airport Center Dr., SH: 10am-3pm, F: $35. one week in advance, $40. thereafter. A: $3., under 12 free with adult. Alpha Records & Music, Gerald Ruark, POB 17575, Indianapolis, IN 46217. PH: 317-882-3378.

Jun 12 NJ, Wayne. 2nd Sat. Record & CD Colloctors Show, Firemen’s Conv. Ctr. 97 Parish Dr. SH: 10am-4pm, T: 100, A: $6., under 12 free. F. Falk PO Box 251, Hamburg, NJ 07419. PH: 973-209-6067. www.showsandexpos.com

Jun 13 CA, Newark. Music Swap Meet, Pavilion. 6430 Thornton Ave., corner of Thornton & Cherry, SH: 8:30am-1pm, F: $45.-$60., A: $3. Charlene White, PH: 408-263-5127.

Jun 13 IN, South Bend. Record & CD Collectors Show, Comfort Suites. 52939 Indiana 933, corner of Cleveland Rd., SH: 11am-5pm, T: 56-6’, F: $30., A: free. Wildwood Records, Ken, PH: 574-329-1483.

Jun 13 KY, Louisville. Music Collectors’ Convention, Holiday Inn. I-64 & Hurstbourne Pkey., SH: 10am-3pm, F: $35. one week in advance, $40. thereafter, A: $3., under 12 free with adult. Alpha Records & Music, Gerald Ruark, POB 17575, Indianapolis, IN 46217. PH: 317-882-3378.

Jun 13 NJ, Springfield. Greater NJ Record & CD Show, Holiday Inn. Rt. 22 W., SH: 10am-4pm, F: $75, A: $6., $3. seniors, under 12 free. PH: 908-995-4570.

Jun 13 PA, Lancaster. Pennsylvania Music Expo, Continental Inn. 2285 Lincoln Hwy. E., SH: 9am-3pm, A: free. Keystone Record Collectors, PH: 717-898-1246 or www.recordcollectors.org

Jun 13 WI, Milwaukee. Music Marketplace, American Serb Hall. 5101 W. Oklahoma Ave., SH: 10am-4pm, T: 8’, F: $45., A: $3. Bill, PH: 847-409-9656.

Jun 19 NY, New York City. Record & CD Collectors Expo, Holiday Inn. (Formerly Days Inn) 440 W. 57th St., btw. 9th & 10th Aves., SH: 10am-4pm, T: 100, A: $6., under 12 free. F. Falk, PO Box 251, Hamburg, NJ 07419. PH: 973-209-6067. www.showsandexpos.com

Jun 20 MD, Arbutus. Record & CD Show, Fire Hall. 5200 Southwestern Blvd., SH: 9am-3pm, T: 120-5’, F: $30., A: free. Ray Quigley, 1 Colgate Ct., Baltimore, MD 21228. PH: 410-455-0418.

Jun 27 CA, Buena Park. Greater Orange County Record Show, UFCW Union Hall. 8530 Stanton Ave., SH: 10am-3pm, T: 8’, F: $65., A: $3. Steve Brunner, PH: 626-963-9717 or www.asavinyl.com/record_show.htm

Jun 27 MI, Kalamazoo. Record & CD Collectors Show, County Fairgrounds. 2900 Lake St., Sprinkle Street Exit from I-94 N., SH: 11am-5pm, T: 36-8’, F: $40., A: free. Wildwood Records, Ken, PH: 574-329-1483.

Jul 10 MI, Lansing. Record & CD Collectors Show, Quality Inn. 3121 E. Grand River Ave., SH: 11am-4pm, T: 6’, F: $30., A: free. Wildwood Records, Ken, PH: 574-329-1483.

Jul 10 NJ, Wayne. 2nd Sat. Record & CD Colloctors Show, Firemen’s Conv. Ctr. 97 Parish Dr. SH: 10am-4pm, T: 100, A: $6., under 12 free. F. Falk PO Box 251, Hamburg, NJ 07419. PH: 973-209-6067. www.showsandexpos.com

Jul 11 MI, Ann Arbor. Monster Record & CD Show, Webers Inn. 3050 Jackson Rd., Exit 172 off I-94, SH: 10am-4pm, T: 60-8’, F: $45., A: $3. Ken, PH: 574-329-1483.

Jul 11 PA, Lancaster. Pennsylvania Music Expo, Continental Inn. 2285 Lincoln Hwy. E., SH: 9am-3pm, A: free. Keystone Record Collectors, PH: 717-898-1246 or www.recordcollectors.org

Jul 17 NY, New York City. Record & CD Collectors Expo, Holiday Inn. (Formerly Days Inn) 440 W. 57th St., btw. 9th & 10th Aves., SH: 10am-4pm, T: 100, A: $6., under 12 free. F. Falk, PO Box 251, Hamburg, NJ 07419. PH: 973-209-6067. www.showsandexpos.com

Jul 18 IL, Hillside. Chicagoland Record Collectors Show, Best Western. 4400 Frontage Rd., SH: 9am-4pm, T: 85-8’, F: $45., A: $3. John Govi, 3045 Worcester Ln., Aurora, IL 60504. PH: 630-898-1533 eves.

Jul 25 CA, Buena Park. Greater Orange County Record Show, UFCW Union Hall. 8530 Stanton Ave., SH: 10am-3pm, T: 8’, F: $65., A: $3. Steve Brunner, PH: 626-963-9717 or www.asavinyl.com/record_show.htm

Jul 31 AZ, Phoenix. Record Swap Meet, AZ American Italian Club. 7509 N. 12th St., SH: 9am-1pm, F: $20. for 1, $15. ea. add’l., A: $5.-$2. Sam, PH: 602-265-9853 or www.rare-az.org

Aug 1 IN, South Bend. Record & CD Collectors Show, Comfort Suites. 52939 Indiana 933, corner of Cleveland Rd., SH: 11am-5pm, T: 56-6’, F: $30., A: free. Wildwood Records, Ken, PH: 574-329-1483.

Aug 8 PA, Lancaster. Pennsylvania Music Expo, Continental Inn. 2285 Lincoln Hwy. E., SH: 9am-3pm, A: free. Keystone Record Collectors, PH: 717-898-1246 or www.recordcollectors.org

Aug 14 NJ, Wayne. 2nd Sat. Record & CD Colloctors Show, Firemen’s Conv. Ctr. 97 Parish Dr. SH: 10am-4pm, T: 100, A: $6., under 12 free. F. Falk PO Box 251, Hamburg, NJ 07419. PH: 973-209-6067. www.showsandexpos.com

Aug 15 CA, Newark. Music Swap Meet, Pavilion. 6430 Thornton Ave., corner of Thornton & Cherry, SH: 8:30am-1pm, F: $45.-$60., A: $3. Charlene White, PH: 408-263-5127.

Aug 15 MD, Arbutus. Record & CD Show, Fire Hall. 5200 Southwestern Blvd., SH: 9am-3pm, T: 120-5’, F: $30., A: free. Ray Quigley, 1 Colgate Ct., Baltimore, MD 21228. PH: 410-455-0418.

Aug 15 WI, Milwaukee. Music Marketplace, American Serb Hall. 5101 W. Oklahoma Ave., SH: 10am-4pm, T: 8’, F: $45., A: $3. Bill, PH: 847-409-9656.

Aug 21 NY, New York City. Record & CD Collectors Expo, Holiday Inn. (Formerly Days Inn) 440 W. 57th St., btw. 9th & 10th Aves., SH: 10am-4pm, T: 100, A: $6., under 12 free. F. Falk, PO Box 251, Hamburg, NJ 07419. PH: 973-209-6067. www.showsandexpos.com

Aug 22 MI, Kalamazoo. Record & CD Collectors Show, County Fairgrounds. 2900 Lake St., Sprinkle Street Exit from I-94 N., SH: 11am-5pm, T: 36-8’, F: $40., A: free. Wildwood Records, Ken, PH: 574-329-1483.

Aug 22 OH, Toledo. Glass City Record Show, Knights of Columbus Hall. 4256 Secor Rd., SH: 10am-4pm, F: $30., A: $1. Stephen or Becky, PH: 419-874-1725.

Sep 11 NJ, Wayne. 2nd Sat. Record & CD Colloctors Show, Firemen’s Conv. Ctr. 97 Parish Dr. SH: 10am-4pm, T: 100, A: $6., under 12 free. F. Falk PO Box 251, Hamburg, NJ 07419. PH: 973-209-6067. www.showsandexpos.com

Sep 12 MI, Roseville. Metro Detroit Record Show, VFW Hall. 25671 Gratiot (N. of 10 Mile Rd.), SH: 10am-4pm, T: 8’, F: $40., A: $3. Al Campbell, PO Box 277, Warren, MI 48090. PH: 586-759-5133 eves.

Sep 12 NJ, Springfield. Greater NJ Record & CD Show, Holiday Inn. Rt. 22 W., SH: 10am-4pm, F: $75, A: $6., $3. seniors, under 12 free. PH: 908-995-4570.

Sep 12 PA, Lancaster. Pennsylvania Music Expo, Continental Inn. 2285 Lincoln Hwy. E., SH: 9am-3pm, A: free. Keystone Record Collectors, PH: 717-898-1246 or www.recordcollectors.org

Sep 18 NY, New York City. Record & CD Collectors Expo, Holiday Inn. (Formerly Days Inn) 440 W. 57th St., btw. 9th & 10th Aves., SH: 10am-4pm, T: 100, A: $6., under 12 free. F. Falk, PO Box 251, Hamburg, NJ 07419. PH: 973-209-6067. www.showsandexpos.com

Sep 19 IL, Hillside. Chicagoland Record Collectors Show, Best Western. 4400 Frontage Rd., SH: 9am-4pm, T: 85-8’, F: $45., A: $3. John Govi, 3045 Worcester Ln., Aurora, IL 60504. PH: 630-898-1533 eves.

Sep 19 MD, Arbutus. Record & CD Show, Fire Hall. 5200 Southwestern Blvd., SH: 9am-3pm, T: 120-5’, F: $30., A: free. Ray Quigley, 1 Colgate Ct., Baltimore, MD 21228. PH: 410-455-0418.

Sep 19 NY, Massapequa. LI Record & CD Lovers Faire, American Legion. Broadway & Veterans Blvd., SH: 10am-3pm, T: 70, A: $5., under 12 free. F. Falk, PO Box 251, Hamburg, NJ 07419. PH: 973-209-6067. www.showsandexpos.com

Sep 25 AZ, Phoenix. Record Swap Meet, AZ American Italian Club. 7509 N. 12th St., SH: 9am-1pm, F: $20. for 1, $15. ea. add’l., A: $5.-$2. Sam, PH: 602-265-9853 or www.rare-az.org

Sep 25 TN, Chattanooga. Record & CD Show, Hilton Garden Inn. 2343 Shallowford Village Dr., SH: 10am-5pm, A: free. Show Logic Productions, PO Box 245, Warner Robins, GA 31099. PH: 478-737-0668. www.myspace.com/showlogicproductions

Sep 26 CA, Buena Park. Greater Orange County Record Show, UFCW Union Hall. 8530 Stanton Ave., SH: 10am-3pm, T: 8’, F: $65., A: $3. Steve Brunner, PH: 626-963-9717 or www.asavinyl.com/record_show.htm

Sep 26 IN, Fort Wayne. Record & CD Collectors Show, Franke Park Zoo Pavillion #1. 3411 Sherman Blvd., I-69, Exit 109A, SH: 11am-5pm, T: 58-5’, F: $25.-$45., A: free. Wildwood Records, Ken, PH: 574-329-1483 or Mark, PH: 260-482-2525 eves.

Sep 26 MA, Dedham. New England Compact Disc & Record Expo, Holiday Inn. 20 min. S. of Boston, Rt. 1, SH: 10am-4pm, A: $5. PH: 781-986-4538.

Sep 26 TN, Knoxville. Record & CD Show, Holiday Inn Select. I-75-40 at Cedar Bluff Rd., SH: 10am-5pm, A: free. Show Logic Productions, PO Box 245, Warner Robins, GA 31099. PH: 478-737-0668. www.myspace.com/showlogicproductions

Oct 2 PA, Allentown. Original 23rd Semi-Annual 45-78 RPM Record Expo, Merchants Square. 12th & Vultee Sts., SH: 10am-?, T: 8’, A: $3. Surround Sound Prods., 801 N. Broad St., Wescosville, PA 18106. PH: 610-530-7606 or 797-7743 day of show.

Oct 3 IN, South Bend. Record & CD Collectors Show, Comfort Suites. 52939 Indiana 933, corner of Cleveland Rd., SH: 11am-5pm, T: 56-6’, F: $30., A: free. Wildwood Records, Ken, PH: 574-329-1483.

Oct 3 PA, Allentown. Fall 2010 Lehigh Valley Music Expo, Merchants Square. 12th & Vultee Sts., SH: 10am-?, T: 8’, F: $55. in advance, $65. thereafter, A: $3. Surround Sound Prods., 801 N. Broad St., Wescosville, PA 18106. PH: 610-530-7606 or 797-7743 day of show.

Oct 9 FL, Tampa. Record & CD Show. 4732 N. Dale Mabry Hwy., SH: 10am-3pm, F: $45., A: $4. Richard Rounds, 1547 55th Ave. N., St. Petersburg, FL 33703. PH: 727-251-9458.

Oct 9 NJ, Wayne. 2nd Sat. Record & CD Colloctors Show, Firemen’s Conv. Ctr. 97 Parish Dr. SH: 10am-4pm, T: 100, A: $6., under 12 free. F. Falk PO Box 251, Hamburg, NJ 07419. PH: 973-209-6067. www.showsandexpos.com

Oct 10 MI, Kalamazoo. Record & CD CollectOrs Show, County Fairgrounds. 2900 Lake St., Sprinkle Street Exit from I-94 N., SH: 11am-5pm, T: 36-8’, F: $40., A: free. Wildwood Records, Ken, PH: 574-329-1483.

Oct 10 PA, Lancaster. Pennsylvania Music Expo, Continental Inn. 2285 Lincoln Hwy. E., SH: 9am-3pm, A: free. Keystone Record Collectors, PH: 717-898-1246 or www.recordcollectors.org

Oct 16 NY, New York City. 45 Collectors Expo, The Inn. (Formerly Days Inn) 440 W. 57th St., btw. 9th & 10th Aves., SH: 10am-4pm, T: 70, A: $6., under 12 free. F. Falk, PO Box 251, Hamburg, NJ 07419. PH: 973-209-6067. www.showsandexpos.com

Oct 16 NY, New York City. Classical Music Expo, The Inn. (Formerly Days Inn) 440 W. 57th St., btw. 9th & 10th Aves., SH: 10am-4pm, T: 70, A: $6., under 12 free. F. Falk, PO Box 251, Hamburg, NJ 07419. PH: 973-209-6067. www.showsandexpos.com

Oct 16 NY, New York City. Record & CD Collectors Expo, Holiday Inn. (Formerly Days Inn) 440 W. 57th St., btw. 9th & 10th Aves., SH: 10am-4pm, T: 100, A: $6., under 12 free. F. Falk, PO Box 251, Hamburg, NJ 07419. PH: 973-209-6067. www.showsandexpos.com

Oct 17 CA, Newark. Music Swap Meet, Pavilion. 6430 Thornton Ave., corner of Thornton & Cherry, SH: 8:30am-1pm, F: $45.-$60., A: $3. Charlene White, PH: 408-263-5127.

Oct 17 MD, Arbutus. Record & CD Show, Fire Hall. 5200 Southwestern Blvd., SH: 9am-3pm, T: 120-5’, F: $30., A: free. Ray Quigley, 1 Colgate Ct., Baltimore, MD 21228. PH: 410-455-0418.

Oct 17 MI, Ann Arbor. Monster Record & CD Show, Webers Inn. 3050 Jackson Rd., Exit 172 off I-94, SH: 10am-4pm, T: 60-8’, F: $45., A: $3. Ken, PH: 574-329-1483.

Oct 17 WI, Milwaukee. Music Marketplace, American Serb Hall. 5101 W. Oklahoma Ave., SH: 10am-4pm, T: 8’, F: $45., A: $3. Bill, PH: 847-409-9656.

Oct 24 NE, Omaha. Music Collector’s Show, Firefighters Union Hall. 60th & Grover, SH: 10am-4pm, T: 8’, F: $40., A: $2. Tim, PH: 712-328-8731 or 402-660-3525.

Oct 24 OH, Toledo. Glass City Record Show, Knights of Columbus Hall. 4256 Secor Rd., SH: 10am-4pm, F: $30., A: $1. Stephen or Becky, PH: 419-874-1725.

Oct 30 MI, Lansing. Record & CD Collectors Show, Quality Inn. 3121 E. Grand River Ave., SH: 11am-4pm, T: 6’, F: $30., A: free. Wildwood Records, Ken, PH: 574-329-1483.

Oct 31 CA, Buena Park. Greater Orange County Record Show, UFCW Union Hall. 8530 Stanton Ave., SH: 10am-3pm, T: 8’, F: $65., A: $3. Steve Brunner, PH: 626-963-9717 or www.asavinyl.com/record_show.htm

Nov 6 NC, Greensboro. Record & CD Show, Guilford Conv. Ctr. I-40, Bus. 85 at East Lee St., SH: 10am-5pm, A: free.Show Logic Productions, PO Box 245, Warner Robins, GA 31099. PH: 478-737-0668 or www.myspace.com/showlogicproductions

Nov 7 MA, Dedham. New England Compact Disc & Record Expo, Holiday Inn. 20 min. S. of Boston, Rt. 1, SH: 10am-4pm, A: $5. PH: 781-986-4538.

Nov 7 NC, Raleigh. Record & CD Show, Holiday Inn. I-440 Beltline at Glenwood (US 70), SH: 10am-5pm, A: free. Show Logic Productions, PO Box 245, Warner Robins, GA 31099. PH: 478-737-0668 or www.myspace.com/showlogicproductions

Nov 7 OH, Toledo. Record Show. 2458 Termainsville Rd., SH: 9am-4pm, A: $1. PH: 419-833-5040.

Nov 13 NJ, Wayne. 2nd Sat. Record & CD Colloctors Show, Firemen’s Conv. Ctr. 97 Parish Dr. SH: 10am-4pm, T: 100, A: $6., under 12 free. F. Falk PO Box 251, Hamburg, NJ 07419. PH: 973-209-6067. www.showsandexpos.com

Nov 14 MI, Roseville. Metro Detroit Record Show, VFW Hall. 25671 Gratiot (N. of 10 Mile Rd.), SH: 10am-4pm, T: 8’, F: $40., A: $3. Al Campbell, PO Box 277, Warren, MI 48090. PH: 586-759-5133 eves.

Nov 14 PA, Lancaster. Pennsylvania Music Expo, Continental Inn. 2285 Lincoln Hwy. E., SH: 9am-3pm, A: free. Keystone Record Collectors, PH: 717-898-1246 or www.recordcollectors.org

Nov 20 NY, New York City. Record & CD Collectors Expo, Holiday Inn. (Formerly Days Inn) 440 W. 57th St., btw. 9th & 10th Aves., SH: 10am-4pm, T: 100, A: $6., under 12 free. F. Falk, PO Box 251, Hamburg, NJ 07419. PH: 973-209-6067. www.showsandexpos.com

Nov 21 IL, Hillside. Chicagoland Record Collectors Show, Best Western. 4400 Frontage Rd., SH: 9am-4pm, T: 85-8’, F: $45., A: $3. John Govi, 3045 Worcester Ln., Aurora, IL 60504. PH: 630-898-1533 eves.

Nov 21 MD, Arbutus. Record & CD Show, Fire Hall. 5200 Southwestern Blvd., SH: 9am-3pm, T: 120-5’, F: $30., A: free. Ray Quigley, 1 Colgate Ct., Baltimore, MD 21228. PH: 410-455-0418.

Nov 21 NY, Massapequa. LI Record & CD Lovers Faire, American Legion. Broadway & Veterans Blvd., SH: 10am-3pm, T: 70, A: $5., under 12 free. F. Falk, PO Box 251, Hamburg, NJ 07419. PH: 973-209-6067. www.showsandexpos.com

Nov 26-28 PA, Oaks. The Thanksgiving Annual “ Not Just” Rock Record Show, Expo Ctr. 100 Station Ave., Rt. 422, SH: Fri. 12noon-7pm, Sat. 10am-7pm, Sun. 10am-4pm, T: 200, A: free. F. Falk, PO Box 251, Hamburg, NJ 07419. PH: 973-209-6067 or www.showsandexpos.com

Nov 27 AZ, Phoenix. Record Swap Meet, AZ American Italian Club. 7509 N. 12th St., SH: 9am-1pm, F: $20. for 1, $15. ea. add’l., A: $5.-$2. Sam, PH: 602-265-9853 or www.rare-az.org

Nov 28 CA, Buena Park. Greater Orange County Record Show, UFCW Union Hall. 8530 Stanton Ave., SH: 10am-3pm, T: 8’, F: $65., A: $3. Steve Brunner, PH: 626-963-9717 or www.asavinyl.com/record_show.htm

Nov 28 IN, Fort Wayne. Record & CD Collectors Show, Franke Park Zoo Pavillion #1. 3411 Sherman Blvd., I-69, Exit 109A, SH: 11am-5pm, T: 58-5’, F: $25.-$45., A: free. Wildwood Records, Ken, PH: 574-329-1483 or Mark, PH: 260-482-2525 eves.

Dec 5 MI, Kalamazoo. Record & CD Collectors Show, County Fairgrounds. 2900 Lake St., Sprinkle Street Exit from I-94 N., SH: 11am-5pm, T: 36-8’, F: $40., A: free. Wildwood Records, Ken, PH: 574-329-1483.

Dec 5 PA, Allentown. Winter 2010 Lehigh Valley Music Expo, Merchants Square. 12th & Vultee Sts., SH: 10am-?, T: 8’, F: $55. in advance, $65. thereafter, A: $3. Surround Sound Prods., 801 N. Broad St., Wescosville, PA 18106. PH: 610-530-7606 or 797-7743 day of show.

Dec 11 NJ, Wayne. 2nd Sat. Record & CD Colloctors Show, Firemen’s Conv. Ctr. 97 Parish Dr. SH: 10am-4pm, T: 100, A: $6., under 12 free. F. Falk PO Box 251, Hamburg, NJ 07419. PH: 973-209-6067. www.showsandexpos.com

Dec 12 CA, Newark. Music Swap Meet, Pavilion. 6430 Thornton Ave., corner of Thornton & Cherry, SH: 8:30am-1pm, F: $45.-$60., A: $3. Charlene White, PH: 408-263-5127.

Dec 12 IN, South Bend. Record & CD Collectors Show, Comfort Suites. 52939 Indiana 933, corner of Cleveland Rd., SH: 11am-5pm, T: 56-6’, F: $30., A: free. Wildwood Records, Ken, PH: 574-329-1483.

Dec 12 NJ, Springfield. Greater NJ Record & CD Show, Holiday Inn. Rt. 22 W., SH: 10am-4pm, F: $75, A: $6., $3. seniors, under 12 free. PH: 908-995-4570.

Dec 12 PA, Lancaster. Pennsylvania Music Expo, Continental Inn. 2285 Lincoln Hwy. E., SH: 9am-3pm, A: free. Keystone Record Collectors, PH: 717-898-1246 or www.recordcollectors.org

Dec 18 NY, New York City. Record & CD Collectors Expo, Holiday Inn. (Formerly Days Inn) 440 W. 57th St., btw. 9th & 10th Aves., SH: 10am-4pm, T: 100, A: $6., under 12 free. F. Falk, PO Box 251, Hamburg, NJ 07419. PH: 973-209-6067. www.showsandexpos.com

Dec 19 MD, Arbutus. Record & CD Show, Fire Hall. 5200 Southwestern Blvd., SH: 9am-3pm, T: 120-5’, F: $30., A: free. Ray Quigley, 1 Colgate Ct., Baltimore, MD 21228. PH: 410-455-0418.

Dec 26 WI, Milwaukee. Music Marketplace, American Serb Hall. 5101 W. Oklahoma Ave., SH: 10am-4pm, T: 8’, F: $45., A: $3. Bill, PH: 847-409-9656.Bill, PH: 847-409-9656.

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Please call ahead before you travel. All information listed herein is provided by the show promoters, is subject to change and is not independently verified by the Goldmine staff. Show promoters who wish to have their record and CD shows listed should mail all pertinent information at least two months in advance of the show to: Goldmine Show Calendar, 700 E. State St., Iola WI 54990 or FAX to 715-445-4087.

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