While in Florida, I was most happy to be reunited with my family, but I was also happy to be reunited with my record collection and I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t happy to see my records. I have amassed a small collection over the years and I wish I could own more, but I have an even bigger obsession with vintage clothing and dressing like my favourite rock stars, but with a bit of my personality and taste mixed in. It’s not enough for me to listen to classic rock, I want to dress like it’s the era.
On Instagram and Tiktok, vinyl collection videos are very popular and I decided to be productive with my time in Florida and so when I wasn’t writing reviews, I was working on videos related to records. In case you don’t follow my personal Instagram, @angiemichellemoon, I’ll share the videos here. I’ve never done a vinyl storytime series, but I thought that would be something my followers would like.
First, let’s start with three videos of my dad’s record collection:
This first one is just some cool LPs in his collection. He has a lot more records than this, but I just wanted to pick some highlights.
This second one is pretty much all 80s and with Instagram reels being visual, picture sleeves are really cool to show off.
Don’t worry 60s lovers, here are some 45s from my dad’s childhood. This one is all 60s. Some of these used to belong to my uncle, but he gave them to my dad decades ago. I wish these were in good condition, but hey, the fact that these are still around is cool.
My Records
And here’s the main event, my records!
This first one is me and my collection of 45s, picture discs, and coloured vinyl:
I also did a series of vinyl storytimes. My memory isn’t so bad and I can remember how I got a lot of these albums. In this first one, I talk about the best deal I ever got and about the time I got a free poster. I wish I thought to show the poster in the video.
In vinyl storytime #2, I talk about my first record: DSOTM, my first Beatles record – a gift from a friend, and finding Kinda Kinks in the plastic at a charity shop in Toronto for only $2!
Just one story in this one, but it’s all about Jimmy McCulloch and Thunderclap Newman. I shout out my friend, Paul, who wrote Little Wing.
In this one I talk about two more great deals. The time I stayed up late for Disraeli Gears and getting Who’s Next for $2 in Toronto.
In this storytime, I talk about gifts from my husband and my love of Thin Lizzy (I really need to get Black Rose on vinyl, but I can never find it 😭).
In this storytime, I talk about some records I found in a used bookstore in Evanston. Quite a haul that day! And I show a couple Wings albums in this one with one of them still in the plastic and the other one . I think I might have paid $5 for each of them.
In this one, I talk about signed albums. Denny Laine signed my copy of Wings Over America and Temples signed my copy of Sun Structures.
And in this last one I talk about one of the perks of being a DJ at the school station, getting free records!
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You were a DJ at your school station? That’s really cool. Nice record collection. I don’t have vinyls, but I’ve really got into collecting CDs. Thanks for showing us your collection and I’m glad you got to see your family again! Your videos are really cool too; your editing skills are great!
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Thank you Lana! My original goal was to be a classic rock DJ, but that didn’t pan out so I went into writing instead. I also loved making videos when I was in university and took a few classes in that.
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No problem, Angie! You took classes for video making at university? That explains your good editing skills. That’s too bad your classic rock DJ dream didn’t work out; there needs to be more classic rock DJs out there.
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Thanks! I must have taken maybe 4 classes in video editing.
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The classes payed off then!
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Your vinyl storytime short clips are fun. I’m not on Instagram, so it was great you shared them on your blog. Both your dad and you have pretty cool vinyl collections. His ’60s singles are amazing!
When you noted “The Dark Side of the Moon” was your first vinyl record (what a gem, btw!), it made me think. Sadly, I don’t remember the first vinyl I owned, but I’m fairly sure a Beatles sampler ingeniously titled “20 Golden Hits” was among my first vinyl records, as was Elvis Presley’s “40 Greatest Hits.” I was a huge Elvis fan when I was 10 or so. The cool thing about that Elvis sampler was the actual vinyl records were pink. I still own that copy!
Interestingly, what I better remember were some of my six-year-older sister’s vinyl records, which included Carole King’s “Tapestry”, Simon & Garfunkel’s “Greatest Hits”, Santana’s “Greatest Hits” and Pink Floyd’s “Wish You Were Here”. Among her singles, she also had CCR’s “Hey Tonight”/”Have You Ever Seen the Rain.” These records marked the start of my music journey as a nine-year-old.
I don’t think my sister realized at the time how influential her records were to trigger my life-long love of music.
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Thank you! Those are some really interesting stories! 🙂
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Sadly I can’t see any Instagram photos. One of my saddest memories was giving up my record collection. I had 6 milk crates full and now I have none 😦 I didn’t make one cent off my collection. My most memorable LP was buying the Rutles “All You Need is Cash” while on vacation in Chicago around 1977. I played the bejesus out of that LP. The CD is nice but it’s missing the sound intro to one of the songs from side one.
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Wow! Crazy how vintage records went up in value in recent years. I wonder what things from my childhood and teenage years are cheap now or were cheap recently but will get more expensive.
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