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Most recordings you own by a single artist, group, or composer

I went and purchased two more John Coltrane CD’s, "Blue Train" and "Traneing In", in spite of, relative to other artists, having way too many of his albums already. I do love his music and just now counted having forty-eight of his albums, not even including the ones he recorded with Miles Davis.

Is there anyone else out there at least equally nutty, or has more recordings by any single artist, band or composer? If so, who do you like, and how many of their albums have you collected and play? Miles Davis at thirty-three records and CD’s, comes in a not too distant second in my collection.

Hopefully this topic hasn’t been broached before here.

Mike
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chisom1
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All material by MARK KNOPFLER/ Dire Straits, Pink FLoyd/ Roger Waters and most Rolling Stones.

Every Michael Hedges and a lot of Windham Hill releases.  

AND...... Aimee Mann's "Mental Illness" is a must listen.
fleschler
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Claudia Muzio, Ponselle, Caruso, Gigli, Battistini, etc. opera singers
Rachmaninoff, Hofmann, Pennario, Lewenthal etc. for pianists
Heifetz, Milstein, Rabin, Hassid, etc. for violinists
Segovia for guitar, Zabaleta, Laskine, etc. for harp
Bing Crosby pre-1935 (all on 12 LPs in chronological order), Ruth Etting, Bessie Smith, etc. for pop vocalists
Rosenblatt, Oysher, Peerce, Tucker, etc. for cantors
Django Reinhart, Bob Wilber, Barney Kessel, Shelley Manne, etc. jazz
I have many collections of entire recorded output of many musicians in my 42,000 LP/78/CD collection. I’m pretty sure my list is unlike most collectors/listeners on this forum.
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geoffkait
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I have a ton of the older Wagner stuff on CD, radio broadcasts, Bayreuth, Knappertsbusch, Von Karajan, you name it, box sets up the yin yang. Yes, I mean a ton, literally. OK, so I bit off more than I can chew. Haven’t even opened most of it. Latest acquisition and fresh out the freezer: remastered CRO2 cassettes, Solti Vienna Gotterdammerung and Die Walkure. Unfreaking believable! So analog, so dynamic!
dlr
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Because I mostly have greatest hits of oldies from 50'-80's, the number for each artist is pretty low. Thank you thrift and Goodwill bins. However I do have about 20 Dead Lps. and cds.  Also 7 or 8 of Eva Cassidy.
skyscraper OP
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Fleschler, that is interesting you’ve that many albums, virtually a library of music. Are the many you mentioned, those for whom you have the complete output?

How do you go about acquiring so many? Do you buy up others collections for example, or go to record conventions? Or simply buy online and haunt used record stores? And have you had the opportunity to listen to most of your albums at least once? Just impressed and curious.

You rarely see 78’s anymore at least in my neck of the woods, western Virginia. There was one record shop in Manhattan I visited on a trip back home many years ago that had a lot of old jazz recordings on 78’s, but I’ve seen few since.

Geoffkaitt, I’d appreciate if you'd recommend a couple or so of your all time favorite Wagner recordings from your collection? Thanks,

Mike
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