Carol Sloane Live At 30th Street female vocal LP mono

$

40

Columbia Monaural CL 1923

Red two eyed label. 

This record is in very nice condition.  Name and address sticker from original owner on label on side one.  Crackling noise is audible between songs and during very quiet passages, but sounds very good during the music.

See picture.  Edges of cover are nicked up, but nothing that goes all the way through.  Front is glossy.  All writing, front and back, is legible.  On the back there is a glue spot where a sticker once resided and there is a name and address label from the original owner.

Produced by Mike Berniker

Playlist as follows:

Side One

Chicago (That Toddling Town)

Love Walked In

Spring Is Here

Taking A Chance On Love

My Melancholy Baby

On The Street Where You Live

Side Two

Basin Street Blues

In A Sentimental Mood

Don't Get Around Much Anymore

Never Never Land

Stars Fell On Alabama

It Never Entered My Mind

I don't use the standard grading system, not to make it hard, but to make it easy.  My method is simple.  I look at it and tell you what I see, and I listen to it and tell you what I hear.  I usually listen at three out of ten on the volume knob, but always turn it up to about five of ten on at least a couple of songs per record to really highlight any flaws.

A quick search will turn up many records offered as near mint that obviously aren't near mint after just a casual glance at the supplied picture.  I have purchased records sold as near mint that sound way worse than the record I am offering.  I wil not do this to you.  Look at the picture (always the actual item) and read my text, and you will know what to expect.

Be sure to click the see other items button for more records as I will be liquidating a 5,000 record collection over the next few years.  This collector started in the 1930s and continued until cds supplanted records as the medium of choice.  The collection is mostly jazz and classical.  There are name and address stickers on most of the records and covers that I don't dare try to remove as many have been there for fifty years!  Besides putting on stickers, the original collector often left handwritten notes to himself on the back covers, usually dates.  Having seen his massive cassette and reel to reel collection, and going by the dates, I suspect that the dates are when he made tapes of the albums.  I also suspect that the taping is the reason that these records are in such nice condition.  This collector was a non smoker, but he got at least some of his records used, I've seen a couple that obviously came from library sales.  If I notice a smoky smell, I will note it, but so far they smell like cardboard.