Things I Didn't Buy at Goodwill - For Kyle

While Eryn was eating her Jimmy John sandwich, I popped into Goodwill to look around as it was right there.  While looking through the albums, I found the first two below in different stacks.  I set them out front to take a picture for Kyle and then, while digging through another stack, I found a third album.  Who knows how many I would have found if I'd kept looking.  Apparently one, Sunshine Day. I think Ricky Tanner really likes his dog.

Given this little blurb, "Ricky Tanner (born 1963) was a member and soloist of the famous Mormon Tabernacle Choir in Salt Lake City, Utah. Ricky as a treble had a rare bell-like crystal clear voice. His last CD recording (as a 21 year old tenor) was made in 1984, just after returning from an LDS mission trip," his career seems to have coincided with Donny Osmond's career who had his teen idol years in 71-78.  They may have even sang together when the Osmonds sang with TMTC.  I bet he needed a pretty sister instead of a dog if he wanted to really hit it big.  The Donny and Marie article at Wikipedia is worth looking at for the list of guest stars and for the fact that it was originally created by Marty and Sid Krofft.  And yes, I did point you at the Boy Choir and Solist Directory which includes novels about choir boys.  Feels like a weird fetish site after you browse for a while.


A bigger version of the image is at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nodtonothing/13297170903/sizes/l/in/photostream/ 

Kyle pointed me at a Rod McKuen album from his own Goodwill adventures.  This is the one to own - it seems special, almost like preparation for his very first television appearance.  My sister might appreciate that he was an uncredited voice in the original The Little Mermaid.


I was so tempted to get this for Ming.  But I don't think he would have appreciated having it as much as I would have appreciated giving it to him.  It was almost worth it on the off chance I found myself with five minutes of unfettered access to his garage wall and a handful of screws.


And one thing Kyle and I learned from Rewind This (Rotten Tomatoes, Offiicial Site) at the Trylon is that in any batch of VCR tapes, you can always find at least one double tape copy of Titanic.  Or two...


Or three...


Or four...

Spinning the Oldies

Kyle recently brought over some speakers to accompany the record player he brought over so I can play the records I bought at Goodwill.  It occurs to me that I should edit these photos to ignore the table cloth and take advantage of the nice square nature of the album covers.  Then it occurs to me I did, but the iPhone seems to ignore my cropping when it uploads my pictures.  So perhaps I need to do the cropping within Flickr (creating fewer copies lying around because my phone dumps straight to Flickr).  In addition to the Sudden Lovelys albums we already had, these are my first four acquisitions:

The Obernkirchen Children's Choir.  My wife mocked this one, and then admitted it was pretty after hearing it play.


Here they are on YouTube singing for the Mickey Mouse Club.

And here they are in 2011, still in existence, singing Rossini.  This video will go along nicely with any pictures from Epcot I post later.

The Roger Wagner Chorale Folk Songs of the Old World.  What got me to buy it was Vol. 1 British Isles in the corner.  However, not nearly as exciting as I'd hoped despite the happy troubadour on the cover.


Also plenty alive on YouTube if you search.


My favorite find of the trip, Dueling Banjos from Deliverance.  I like the record impression visible within the album cover.


You can watch the video on YouTube which is cool. Sorry about the commercial.

And The Dean Martin Christmas Album, which will hopefully replace some of the Christmas music I'm subjected to during the holiday season.  I like Dean Martin's Christmas music.  Always have.  It's very relaxing.


On this particular YouTube video, you're not allowed to relax, because there are all sorts of sexy pictures of Scarlett Johansson.  Scarlett Johansson did not come with my Goodwill album.