"I know guys half my age who are dead" - spot on assessment of the folks who don't understand that we are on this planet to enjoy our occupations AND our free time.
I started out at the age of 12 buying 8-cent 45RPM records (15 for a buck) at Grants just by looking at the cool-looking labels! Example: The Four Frogs on FrogDeath Records - with pic sleeve! Wish I still had those! Sold or traded them for CDs - certainly wish I hadn't done such a dastardly thing! Since covid I began to recollect them because nobody else was open or selling. Dealers would come to me and I would ask how much for the carload and got great sub-wholesale prices! Now I'm still finding tons of records in the wild including large lots of promos from retired radio station DJs and others in the business. I've accumulated over 13,000 45s for my "recollection" since then plus thousands more piled up in my kitchen for trade or selling. It's a crazy world these daze! I'm approaching 73 and still rockin'!
My mom always tells me i was born in the wrong era i love listening to guys like him tell stories. This is why half the time i get along with boomers better than people my age because there suprised about my knowledge and how my tastes are all over the place but my main loves are 50s and 60s music. I feel like in a way I'm only 24 but I've been digging since i was about 13 and i feel like im keeping this flame of guys like Val alive not just me obviously i always love meeting people my age who are like me in that way we are out there.. 😅😁
I just watched this,five years later....1st song that comes to mind is probably one of your favorites too...The Diablos "The Wind"Watched a video ,afterwards,of someone playing a second pink label Fortune copy,nice hiss and crackle mixed in...What a way to follow your video up, to pay tribute to you Val.
Wow. What a gold mine. I would love to pick this guy's brain. I wonder how much he absorbed as a business man. He said he bought most of it because he liked black R & B. There is so many good artists that got lost in the noise. Since RUclips, there are a lot of pethat are saying, " holy shit, this was a good one" as they dig out a 45 from their attic trunk. I've recently heard Lee Moses stuff. I hope that there are 1000 more like this.
Great stories!!!, I still buy from Time Square Records sometimes but it must be a newer store, Never retire Val , jez you must have a million records ..well done!!!
In 2019, I went to his store. It is beyond amazing, and Val and Chuck are very nice. I collect picture sleeves and was able to look through his collection that he had.
What a fantastic story, it would make a good movie .
Now,Val has 4 million of these!!He was always awesome!!Mr.Val.
"I know guys half my age who are dead" - spot on assessment of the folks who don't understand that we are on this planet to enjoy our occupations AND our free time.
I started out at the age of 12 buying 8-cent 45RPM records (15 for a buck) at Grants just by looking at the cool-looking labels! Example: The Four Frogs on FrogDeath Records - with pic sleeve! Wish I still had those! Sold or traded them for CDs - certainly wish I hadn't done such a dastardly thing! Since covid I began to recollect them because nobody else was open or selling. Dealers would come to me and I would ask how much for the carload and got great sub-wholesale prices! Now I'm still finding tons of records in the wild including large lots of promos from retired radio station DJs and others in the business. I've accumulated over 13,000 45s for my "recollection" since then plus thousands more piled up in my kitchen for trade or selling. It's a crazy world these daze! I'm approaching 73 and still rockin'!
I now have MANY more that I did last year! You can quadruple that amount now!
My mom always tells me i was born in the wrong era i love listening to guys like him tell stories. This is why half the time i get along with boomers better than people my age because there suprised about my knowledge and how my tastes are all over the place but my main loves are 50s and 60s music. I feel like in a way I'm only 24 but I've been digging since i was about 13 and i feel like im keeping this flame of guys like Val alive not just me obviously i always love meeting people my age who are like me in that way we are out there.. 😅😁
I could listen to these types of stories forever. The British who went to the States for Northern and so forth also have incredible stories to tell.
What a legend this guy is...
Why, because he hoards records and treats them like shit?
@@TheMindIlluminated haha
Oh my God.......The shot with those Chance records!!!Holy crap,Val!
I just watched this,five years later....1st song that comes to mind is probably one of your favorites too...The Diablos "The Wind"Watched a video ,afterwards,of someone playing a second pink label Fortune copy,nice hiss and crackle mixed in...What a way to follow your video up, to pay tribute to you Val.
Wow. What a gold mine. I would love to pick this guy's brain. I wonder how much he absorbed as a business man. He said he bought most of it because he liked black R & B. There is so many good artists that got lost in the noise. Since RUclips, there are a lot of pethat are saying, " holy shit, this was a good one" as they dig out a 45 from their attic trunk. I've recently heard Lee Moses stuff. I hope that there are 1000 more like this.
I did the same thing when I was 12 - you should see my place now @73! ...Billy!
I'm a lifelong Philadelphian and music lover What a fascinating video!
Great stories!!!, I still buy from Time Square Records sometimes but it must be a newer store, Never retire Val , jez you must have a million records ..well done!!!
I could listen to this guy all day.
In 2019, I went to his store. It is beyond amazing, and Val and Chuck are very nice. I collect picture sleeves and was able to look through his collection that he had.
@3:28 OMG, All Those CHANCE Records! 😍
Amazing
Wonder what's gonna happen to all his 45's........
I need to find a few
100,000's of $3 checks.........