THE ENDANGERED RECORD PROJECT
List Updated Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Records - long-playing, high-fidelity, mono then stereo, two-sided 12-inch discs that revolved around a turntable 33 1/3 times per minute - were the dominant format that introduced the world to virtually all the new music created between the early 1950s and 1987. Many of the records produced in that period have been reissued on CD and people like me who continue to hold on to the original album are lazy, cheap and/or sentimental about the album covers. But others have never, or at least not yet, made it to CD, and as fewer people maintain their turntables or record collections are in some danger of being forgotten. And, forgotten with them will be some great songs and unusual versions of songs more well-known.
I like my CD collection but I love my record collection. If I didn't host a radio show, I might not have kept all of them, but I do and I did and as a result have about 3500 of them. Some of them I draw on regularly for my show, but others have managed to stay quietly on their shelves for years without darkening a turntable. This year, I am trying to both play more of them on the air and keep track of those I do.
I have a vague fantasy that someday I, or someone else, will release a set of these songs as CDs or whatever technology settles in to replace them in a manner similar to the Anthology of American Folk Music Harry Smith compiled in 1950 to rescue music that had been recorded on 78rpm records by putting them in a boxed set of 4 spectacular LPs. In that case, whole genres of music were saved and transferred to new generations and parts of the country and the world that otherwise might well have never learned of them. In this case, the task is much more modest but maybe still worthwhile.
Please let me know if as you read this evolving list you see records that you know have been reissued on CD. Other comments are welcome too.
- John Weingart
Great Songs From LPs Not on CD
Played on Music You Can't Hear On The Radio:
| Artist Title |
Album Label |
|---|---|
| A | |
| Addison "After We Bomb" |
East Winds (Addison LP) |
| Tom Akstens "River Song" |
Original & Traditional Music (Takoma LP) |
| Dick And Anne Albin "An Edsel On The Used Car Of Life" |
Ironweed (Mr. Chocolate Mess Music LP) |
| Arm And Hammer String Band "We're Up Against It Now" |
Stay On The Farm (Fretless LP) |
| Paul Arnoldi "One Note Man" |
One Note Man (Kapp LP) |
| John Arpin "Ragtime Turtle Dove" |
Solo Piano (Eubie Blake Music LP) |
| Mike Auldridge "Age" |
Old Dog (Flying Fish LP) |
| B | |
| Duck Baker "Mama's Getting Younger" |
The King Of Bongo Bong (Kicking Mule LP) |
| Bottle Hill "Bosque Country Romance" |
A Rumor In Their Own Time (Biograph LP) |
| David Bromberg "Make Me A Pallet & Jelly Jaw Joe" |
Long Way From Here (Fantasy (1986)) |
| Saul Broudy "No Lonesome Tune" |
Travels With Broudy (Adelphi LP) |
| Howie Bursen "Green Willis" |
Cider In The Kitchen (Folk Legacy LP) |
| C | |
| Hamilton Camp "Paths Of Victory (Found on CD - May 2009)" |
Paths Of Victory (Elektra LP) |
| Len Chandler "To Be A Man" |
To Be A Man (Columbia LP) |
| The Chicken Chokers "Looking For Money" |
Chokers And Flies (Rounder LP) |
| Corn Bred "God Don't Work The Night Shift Anymore" |
It's Hot (Sierra Briar LP) |
| Corn Bred "Log Cabin In The Sky" |
Hot Corn Bred (Sierra Briar LP) |
| Sonny Curtis "The Real Buddy Holly Story" |
Love Is All Around (Elektra LP) |
| D | |
| Marcel Dadi "Song For Jerry" |
Marcel Dadi And Friends (Guitar World LP) |
| Alix Dobkin "O.K.O.Y.?" |
Alix (Ladyslipper Music LP) |
| F | |
| Freeman & Lange "Old Wooley And Northern Lights" |
Freeman & Lange (Flying Fish LP) |
| Frummox "Man In The Big Hat" |
Here To There (ABC LP) |
| Frummox "Texas Trilogy" |
Here To There (ABC LP) |
| G | |
| Joe Glazer "Gentleman Jimmy Watt" |
Jellybean Blues (Collector LP) |
| Dave & Kay Gordon "King Of The Whole World" |
Alive At Last (Vetco LP) |
| Dave & Kay Gordon "" |
Cordoroy Road (Vetco LP) |
| Dave Gordon "" |
Falling Rock (Vetco LP) |
| Dave Gordon "" |
Natural Causes (Vetco LP) |
| H | |
| Claire Hamill "All The Cakes She Baked Him" |
Stage Door Johnnies (Konk West LP) |
| Aliotta Haynes "Rockerfeller Blues" |
Aliotta Haynes Music (Ampex LP) |
| Bill And Bonnie Hearne "Fusion" |
New Mexico Rain (1982 LP) |
| John Herald "The Fire Song" |
John Herald (Paramount LP) |
| Hot Mud Family "Pinball Blues" |
Meat And Potatoes And Stuff Like That (Flying Fish (1981)) |
| K | |
| Leo Kretzner "It's The Same Old Song" |
Bold Orion (Heartwood LP) |
| L | |
| Leadbelly "Ella Speed" |
Huddie Leadbetter's Best (Capitol LP) |
| Harry Lipson "Weenie Weenie Ru" |
Fridays & Saturdays (Pandemonium LP) |
| M | |
| Debby McClatchy "Somebody Else's Troubles" |
Radioland (Plant Life LP) |
| Richard Meyer "The January Cold" |
Laughing/Scared (Old Forge LP) |
| P | |
| Tom Paxton "I Followed Her To The West" |
Outward Bound (Elektra LP) |
| Nick Plakius "A Boy's Life" |
A Boy's Life (Cabin Home (1982)) |
| S | |
| Mike Seeger (And Pete) "Well May The World Go" |
The 2nd Annual Farewell Reunion (Mercury LP) |
| Pete Seeger "Oh, Had I A Golden Thread" |
Strangers And Cousins (Columbia LP) |
| T | |
| Jack Teagarden "I Swung The Election" |
Jack Teagarden (Jazz Trio LP) |
| W | |
| Pop Wagner "Impressionists 2-Step" |
Disco On The Bayou (Train On The Island LP) |
| Kim Wallach "I Found A Peach In Orange New Jersey" |
Paddle On The Railway (Black Socks LP) |
| Hedy West "Pans of Biscuits" |
Hedy West, Volume 2 (Vanguard LP) |
