Kid in a Candy Shop


I’m sure many of you remember the mailers from MHS (Musical Heritage Society) from nearly half a century ago---seriously!  Correct me if I am wrong, but it seems like the average LP sold for $5.99 or so.  Anyway, I found mot of these recordings to be of fairly high quality.  You would mail in your order and then wait for that brown cardboard package to arrive in a couple of weeks or so.

Fast forward.  My daughter tells me she wants a turntable for Christmas--nothing fancy but she and her friends are getting into vinyl.  "I like the ticks and pops Dad."  So recently she was home and we visited a local used record shop that catered to her demographic.  Right before we left I found a box of Classical music on the floor with many MHS recordings--they appeared quite pristine and were priced at $1.00 each!!!!!  I grabbed around 10.  The other night I couldn’t sleep so I gave up the fight, put on the coffee, and listened to these recordings--all of them.  Wow!  Very nice indeed.

I went back to that shop last night and grabbed 40 LP’s for $39!  As I type, I am listening to Tomasco Albinoni--a wonderful like- new recording.  What a treasure trove.

So many good memories and recordings coming back to life.

corelli

I assume you meant to type Tomaso Albinoni.  Tomasco Albinoni sounds like a hot sauce in an Italian restaurant.

  I don’t think I ever bought a MHS LP, which is curious because my LP collection but almost entirely budget classical music, and we certainly had plenty of them in the cutout shelves of the stores that I worked in and frequented when I was in college.  I certainly loaded up on their CDs when they began to issue them, as they were one of the first budget CD issuers.  I think when Naxos gained strength they eliminated MHS as a competitor.  The MHS CDs that I continue to play with some regularity are the Symphonies of the Estonian composer Eduard Tubin, who was championed by conductor Neeme Jarvi.

 

The Readers Digest series is another to seek out when bin diving.

Stores can't give it away,  among other genres.

Cheap and plentiful in my area.

I get many 3/$10

 

 

Tomasco Albinoni sounds like a hot sauce in an Italian restaurant.

That would be his Spanish cousin, Tabasco Albinoni.

Picked up many gems for next to nothing at middle of nowhere thrift stores that dot the Florida panhandle. Recently got a nice Henry Mancini in Sopchoppy.

I continue to binge on these MHS recordings.  The SQ on many of these is very, very good.  They recorded many well know conductors and orchestras.  I did not realize Naxos made LP"s.  Like MHS, Naxos mad a ton of recordings in the CD world that were affordable--often of lesser know musicians.  I find their box sets can be a huge bargain--just like my MHS find!