What's the oddest thing in your music collection?


For me, it's a CD titled "Kashmir: The Symphonic Led Zeppelin".

Yes, it's Led Zeppelin songs played by The London Philharmonic Orchestra.

It's actually quite interesting, to me anyways. For a review and sampling the music, see:

So, what's the oddballs in your collections?

 

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No odd, but I think lesser known.

 

Christmas Classics with Harp & Oboe

Christmas Classics 2 with Harp & Oboe 2

 

Both are very clean recordings to my ear and an excellent listen, particularly for the season.

It appears that neither are available on CD currently on Amazon.  

Simao:

Unfortunately no.

Can’t even access the LP now as it’s buried behind gobs of other stuff.

Looked for other like recordings but struck out.

Once thought of contacting Johnathan Demme to see if he would be interested in such a recording project, but never got around to doing so and as time flies so did he.

Maybe Ry Cooder would be up for it (we are all getting so old and I can’t stand Ken Burns)?

Some other odd ones I have are a half dozen LP’s of "Official Figure Skating Music" and a Tito Puente "advertising/tourism" compilation LP.

 

DeKay

@dekay : is it Tony Schwartz 1, 2, 3 And A Zing Zing Zing- 

Demme was a neighbor when I lived near Nyack. Very nice guy. We used to bump into him at the local sushi bar and never talked about his films, just stuff about the 'hood. Sorry he's gone. 

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I have quite a few "weird" records, from those atomic era Batchelor pad records like the RCA posted above (most of which I got rid of to make space, ahem) to rare groove jazz that had black islam overtones and labeling- many on private label that were released at the end of the '60s into the '70s. I did a big purge before I moved from NY to Texas, so a lot (12,000) records got offloaded including old test records, some field recordings and a lot of the novelty stuff, e.g. Music for Non-thinkers, along with lesser pressings and duplicates. The stuff I kept is musically interesting to me, despite bizarre covers or titles.