Whats on your turntable tonight?

Hey Jerico, re "Unhalfbricking": In my queue recently have been Sandy Denny "Sandy" [A&M LP '72] and "The Best Of Richard & Linda Thompson: The Island Years" [Island/Def Jam CD '00]...(Sorry Richard & Linda, both of whom appear on "Sandy", but I remain partial to Ms. Denny)...

Al Green - "Al Green Is Love" [Hi LP '75]
The Detroit Emeralds - "I'm In Love With You" [Westbound LP '73]
The Staple Singers - "BeAltitude: Respect Yourself" [Stax LP '72]
Townsend, Townsend, Townsend & Rogers - S/T [Chocolate City '79] Ed Townsend, singer of "For Your Love" fame (Capitol '58) and producer/songwriter/arranger (Marvin Gaye, Dee Dee Warwick), together with his sons in an innocuous Johnson Brothers-ish groove
Deon Jackson - "His Greatest Recordings" [Solid Smoke LP '84, rec. '64 - '69]
The Temptations - "Meet The Temptations" [Gordy LP '64]
Charlie Byrd - "Bamba-Samba Bossa Nova" [Everest LP '63] Featuring the Woody Herman Big Band (not billed here as The Thundering Herd), offhand I can't think of another record combining large swing-band jazz fronted by acoustic Spanish guitar. The liners also mention an earlier Everest collaboration entitled "Herman's Heat And Puente's Beat", I'd like to find that one!
Henry Mancini - "Experiment In Terror" M.P. Sndtrk. [RCA LSP LP '62]
Blossom Dearie - "Blossom Dearie, Soubrette: Sings Broadway Hit Songs" [Verve LP '60]
Frank Sinatra - "September Of My Years" [Reprise LP '65]
Nina Simone - "Emergency Ward!" [RCA LP '72]
Liszt: Hungarian Rhapdodies/Enesco: Roumanian Rhapsodies - Dorati/LSO [Mercury LPS LP '60]
"Children's Songs Of Shakespeare's Time" - New York Pro Musica Antiqua [Counterpoint/Esoteric-Everest LP '6?]

Nice ones, Zaikesman! I'll take a look for "Sandy." I also just ordered a copy of "Pour Down Like Silver" (my personal favorite Richard/Linda album - actually my personal favorite Thompson recording, period).

Can any of the classical fans out there recommend one or two LP's to get me started? I have a beginners interest, and have a snumber of high-res digital recordings (Mozart, Haydn, Mahler, Beethoven) but zero vinyl, and don't know where to start.

On rotation this morning:

Tom Waits - Mule Variations
Hank Mobley - Soul Station

Jerico,

See if these threads on classical music will give you something of interest to start with:

Classical music - starting points

Classical fans, I need advice

Phenomenal Classical Recordings

Classical Starting Points - Links
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Thanks, Rushton. I'll have a look!

Hi Jerico, my own personal Thompson faves are the first three Fairport Convention albums (they lose me at "Liege & Lief" onward, when things got less freewheeling and eclectic, not to mention rockin' -- they also missed Denny's songwriting after that one). I would like to hear Sandy's first solo effort entitled "The Northstar Grassman And The Ravens" ('71) but haven't come across it to date...