Quick game: What's the OLDEST album in your digital collection?
-
Artist:
-
Album:
-
Track:
Mine is:
...and it's one of the FINEST albums in my collection. The rumors surrounding the recording sessions, the interplay between Miles and Sonny Rollins.... wow. gives me goosebumps just thinking about it.
So...POST 'EM UP! What's the oldest full album in your collection? I have several older sitting on the shelf but in my enormous Itunes library, this one happens to be the current oldest.
[Sort out your library by clicking on "Year". That's the easiest way!]
Comments (33)
Ummm - Threepenny Opera original Off-Brodway Cast (with John Astin, Beatrice Arthur and Paul Dooley - Ed Asner spent some time in the Theatre deLys "bijou" production, too...), from 1954 or so, i think.
Mine is also Miles Davis, but Bitches Brew (1969 I think). Off the top of my head, I believe the next one is almost 10 years younger: Star Wars Original Soundtrack - 2 LP set. Performed by the London Symphony Orchestra, released in 1977.
Mine is a collection of early Dada recordings. Recordindg date 1923.
well, jesus TJay you got me beat by 30 friggin years.
Yeah, but it's gutteral screaming. You did say music, yes? Maybe I'm out on a technicality.
Looks like mine is "Straight no chaser" soundtrack by Thelonious Monk. 1946! lol
I don't listen to it much(I'm not sure why,as it's a very good album). I do have Bags groove as well and it's an awesome cd! :-)
indeed, i wasn't counting my Kurt Schwitters spoken word tape, coz as tjayF pointed out, it's not really music.
i couldn't stop wondering if i had any older albums. after digging into my collection i found these albums without dates: Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughn, Folkways Blues compilation with Leadbelly and Muddy Waters, Johnny Maddox's Ragtime Twenties... but i imagine they were released in the 50's or 60's. The oldest album I could find that actually has a date is my 1965 Charlie Parker...
Mine is "Ain't Got No Home" by Clarance Henry
My oldest record is a 78 on Brunswick called Pinetops Boogie Woogie by Pinetop Smith. I think its date is 1928.It doesn't beat tjay however
My oldest record is a 78 on Brunswick called Pinetops Boogie Woogie by Pinetop Smith. I think its date is 1928.It doesn't beat tjay however sorry about the 2x post mog is a little sluggish
I've got a 3 disc compilation of WWII era music, the comp is only ten years old, or so, but the music is from the original artists.
I forgot to add it is from 1957
Pere Ubu 'The Modern Dance' 1978
Some Bob Wills and The Texas Playboys from 1932.
Mine is Tom Wait's Closing Time from 1973...I lose! Bet I'd win if we were playing what's the newest album in your digital collection ;)
Using the itunes years method..1923:Bessie Smith the Complete Recordings Vol. 1.
Oldest in itunes is Thelonius Monk at Carnegie Hall, 1957.
I um, need to make an amendment....
It's Anita O'day's The Lady Is a Tramp, 1952. I didn't have it tagged right.
Mine is also Miles Davis, Ascenseur Pour L'Échafaud, the movie soundtrack from 1958.
I have some 78s here, too, but haven't sorted through or catalogued them, so I don't think they would count. Same with my big band stuff. And how do we classify the classical? Tunes written a long time ago, but th recording isn't so much.
I guess, by the strictest sense, it'd be Miles Davis "Kind of Blue"-1959. Wow, Miles seems to show up a lot here, doesn't he?
Um, I have to change my answer. I didn't know the original year of Wayne Newton's album 'Songs For A Merry Christmas' which I acquired over last weekend. I looked it up on the 'net & found it was 1966(the digital release I bought said '08).
Monk & Coltrane The Complete Riverside Recording - 1957. Like others, Miles was #2 w/ Kind of Blue
Did you really want to admit that, August? haha. Although, Wayne was great before he became a cartoon of himself....
I also have Miles Davis and the Modern Jazz Giants (1954) on the pod. It was actually recorded in the same sessions with the same personnel as Bag's Groove. And Eric, 3 out of my top 4 are Miles discs...
I've got a little more variety, Jameson - Coltrane "Giant Steps is 3rd and Monk "Monk's Dream" is 4th...Guess I didn't get the Miles stuff until later down the road - actually, I just checked and really don't have much of his stuff digitally speaking, although I do have a ton of his stuff...
Well, I was kinda hesitant about that admission, although that Newton album was a holiday tradition in my family . . . .
frank zappa, apostrophe.
Edison Concert Band 1907
Fisty - you suck. lol.
Mine would be Alexander Graham Bell's classic love song "Mr. Watson, Come Here. I Want You!" Beat that, fistie!
Well there is the world's earliest known recording that was discovered this year but hardly an album. :P
http://www.firstsounds.org/sounds/index.php
I'm thinking there must be a caveman grunt preserved in amber somewhere......gotta find it. At least a bootleg of it!
Washington Phillips - 1929
lol but 1907? DAMMMMMN.
woody guthrie-dust bowl ballads-1940