Beatles White Album #5 sells for $28,448.20

I reported about a week ago about this treasure going on the market. I actually thought it would go for a higher price. Very interesting:

A piece of history just sold on eBay. As I previously announced, the rare, lowest of the numbered Beatles' 1968 self-titled vinyl LP, more commonly referred to as "The White Album" just sold for $28,448.20.


There is truly a one of a kind item, the first four printed albums were giving to The Beatles band members and this is the earliest edition that has ever seen the open market as it is marked 0000005. The vinyl records are in an extremely good shape for their age and come to the market as the album celebrates its 40th anniversary of release on 22nd November (1968).


Here was the listing of the auction:

"Some years ago, this album was taken into the collectors shop named 'Vinyl Revival Records' in Newbury, Berkshire, England by a musician (they did not disclose who) who had visited John in the flat that he shared with Yoko in late 1968 (that was owned by Ringo) at 34 Montague Square, Marylebone, London W.1. The musician saw a pile of White Albums on a table and asked for one. John readily agreed, but said 'Don't take No.1 - I want that'. Instead he took No. 5'.

The album then passed into the hands of Beatles specialist dealer 'Good Humour' who then sold it to its current owner who has now commissioned me to sell it on his behalf."

What I find most interesting is that Disc 2 is heavier than Disc 1. Here's the specifics:

This unique, complete copy is UK 1968 MONO 1st pressing on the dark green Apple labels: PMC 7067 & PMC 7068. All labels carry the 'Sold in UK..' texts but omit the 'An EMI Recording' text found on later editions. The discs are housed in a thick card stock, fully laminated, top-loading 'Garrod & Lofthouse printed mono cover numbered: No.0000005. This copy is 100% complete with both its matt black die-cut inner-sleeves, 4 colour portrait photos, matt UK printed poster and white paper photo spacer.

Rolling Stone Gets an Earful from Readers on Greatest Singers List

Two weeks ago, Rolling Stone published their list of the 100 greatest singers of the Rock era as picked by a panel of people from the music industry. This past Friday, they asked their readers to let them have it. Tell them the names of all the singers that they felt should have been on the list.

The list is interesting in that it didn't totally skew towards modern artists, as so often happens when the general public is asked to name lists of "greats." There is also at least one questionable singer on the list in Billie Holiday who, while truly one of the great singers of all time, is more of an influence on rock music than a singer of the era. The same could be said of Ella Fitzgerald, although she was recording after 1955.

The following are the top vote getters from the follow-up poll:

Eddie Vedder (Pearl Jam)
Chris Cornell (Soundgarden)
Michael Stipe (R.E.M)
Maynard James Keenan (Tool)
Joe Strummer (Clash)
Paul Westerberg (Replacements)
Mike Patton (Faith No More, Mr. Bungle)
Ian Curtis (Joy Division)
Ella Fitzgerald
George Michael
Harry Nilsson
Frank Black (Pixies)
Peter Gabriel
H.R. (Bad Brains)
Mark Lanegan (Screaming Trees, Queens of the Stone Age)
Billie Holiday
Liam Gallagher (Oasis)
Joey Ramone (Ramones)
Chris Isaak
Richard Manuel (Band)

As with any 'best of' list, there are names on both lists that can be debated. I had posted the list and had to question the inclusion of several artists- including Bob Dylan, who I suggest can't sing a lick. I saw him in concert and I was so disgusted that I even paid for the tickets, we walked out, it was that bad. A poet and songwriter? One of the best, but as a singer he belongs on the 'worst of' list in my book.

Then the readers include Maynard James Keenan (Tool). I guess if screaming into a micrphone constitutes 'singing' then he belongs I guess- certainly an acquired taste (like diarrhea on Christmas)

ASCAP Announces Top 25 Christmas Songs

ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers) has announced their annual list of the 25 most performed Christmas songs over the last five years. Keep in mind, this list is only for songs written by ASCAP members, while some unlisted popular songs may be licensed through BMI (Broadcast Music International).

The ranking was done with information from Mediaguide, which monitors radio airplay on over 2,700 radio stations.

Winter Wonderland stays at number one for a second year in a row. Leaving the list is last year's number 25, Paul McCartney's Wonderful Christmas.

(1) Winter Wonderland - Felix Bernard, Richard B. Smith (Eurythmics)
(2) The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire) - Mel Tormé, Robert Wells (Nat King Cole)
(3) Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas - Ralph Blane, Hugh Martin (Pretenders)
(4) Sleigh Ride - Leroy Anderson, Mitchell Parish (Ronettes)
(5) Santa Claus Is Coming To Town - Fred Coots, Haven Gillespie (Bruce Springsteen)
(6) Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! - Sammy Cahn, Jule Styne (Aaron Neville)
(7) White Christmas - Irving Berlin (Bing Crosby)
(8) Jingle Bell Rock - Joseph Carleton Beal, James Ross Boothe (Bobby Helms)
(9) Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer - Johnny Marks (Gene Autrey)
(10) Little Drummer Boy - Katherine K. Davis, Henry V. Onorati, Harry Simeone (Harry Simeone Chorale & Orchestra)
(11) It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year - Edward Pola, George Wyle (Andy Williams)
(12) Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree - Johnny Marks (Brenda Lee)
(13) Silver Bells - Jay Livingston, Ray Evans (Kenny G)
(14) I'll Be Home For Christmas - Walter Kent, Kim Gannon, Buck Ram (Amy Grant)
(15) Feliz Navidad - José Feliciano (Jose Feliciano)
(16) Frosty The Snowman - Steve Nelson, Walter E. Rollins (Ronettes)
(17) A Holly Jolly Christmas - Johnny Marks (Burl Ives)
(18) It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas - Meredith Willson (Johnny Mathis)
(19) Blue Christmas - Billy Hayes, Jay W. Johnson (Elvis Presley)
(20) (There's No Place Like) Home For The Holidays - Bob Allen, Al Stillman (Perry Como)
(21) I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus - Tommie Connor (PRS) (John Mellencamp)
(22) Here Comes Santa Claus (Right Down Santa Claus Lane) - Gene Autry, Oakley Haldeman (Elvis Presley)
(23) Carol Of The Bells - Peter J. Wilhousky, Mykola Leontovich (David Foster)
(24) Do They Know It's Christmas? (Feed the World) - Midge Ure (PRS), Bob Geldof (PRS) (Band Aid)
(25) This Christmas - Donny Hathaway & Nadine McKinnor (Gloria Estefan)

No "Barking Dogs" on the list this year :O(

Top Ten TV Theme Songs

Let's explore PasteMagazine.com's list of theme songs, this time see what made #3 on their list:

3. Sanford & Son - Quincy Jones

Forget Thriller, "We are the World" or his work with Frank Sinatra, Ray Charles, Ella Fitzgerald and Sammie Davis Jr. If all Mr. Jones had given us was the funky intro to one of the best sitcoms of the 1970s, it would have been enough.



Sanford and Son is an American sitcom that premiered on the NBC television network on January 14, 1972, and was broadcast for six seasons. The final original episode aired on March 25, 1977. The show was based on the BBC sitcom Steptoe and Son.

Sanford and Son starred Redd Foxx as Fred G. Sanford, a 65-year-old junk dealer living at 9114 S. Central Ave. in the Watts neighborhood of southern Los Angeles, California; and Demond Wilson as his 28-year-old son, Lamont Sanford.

Redd Foxx played Sanford as a sarcastic, stubborn, and argumentative antiques and junk dealer, whose frequent money-making schemes routinely backfired and created more troubles. Lamont dearly would have liked to enjoy independence but loved his father too much to leave him to his devices and schemes. Although each owned an equal share in the business and technically Fred was the boss, Lamont often found himself doing all the work and having to order his father to complete tasks and duties.

On the show's premiere in 1972, newspaper ads touted Foxx as NBC's answer to Archie Bunker, the bigoted white protagonist of All in the Family. (Both shows were adapted by Norman Lear from BBC shows.)

Ratings:
Season Ranking
1971-72 #6
1972-73 #2
1973-74 #2
1974-75 #2
1975-76 #7
1976-77 #27

interesting tidbits:

The truck driven in the series is a 1951 Ford, which was still functional as of July 2006 and used by its owner, Donald Dimmitt of Dimmitts Auto Salvage, a real-life junk dealer in Walnut Township, Marshall County, Indiana.

On King of the Hill, Dale routinely refers to Sanford and Son, frequently returning from an extermination job and saying "Good, I didn't miss my show," before settling in to watch Sanford and Son.

The episode "Fred Sanford, Legal Eagle" was edited before being aired on the cable TV network TV Land. In the unedited version, Fred represents Lamont in traffic court as his legal counsel. At the climax of the episode, Fred confronts the white traffic policeman who wrote Lamont the ticket. "Hey, look here", Fred asks the policeman, "why don't you arrest some white drivers?" When the policeman answers, "I do", Fred gestures to the court observers, who are all black, and asks, "Well where are they? Look at all these niggas in here!" Upon uttering this statement, the live studio audience went crazy with laughter and applause. Redd Foxx had to pause for the crowd to settle down before delivering the coup de grâce: "There's enough niggas in here to make a Tarzan movie!" In the TV Land version of this episode, Fred's questioning of the policeman abruptly ends after "What do you have against black people?".

In my opinion, this show did as much for TV as "All In The Family." It is one of my favorites and I must have seen every episode 5 times over, but will never turn the channel if I happen to be surfing and catch it on. Classic and timeless.

Classic Rock Videos

Janis Joplin "Me and Bobby McGee"

Album Cover Art

Let's continue our look at the Gigwise.com list of the top 50 dirtiest and sexiest album covers (as compiled by their staff- Gigwise comments in quotes):


27. Slunt: ‘Get A Load Of This’ –" If a woman in a bikini dripping ice cream down her chest isn’t the sign of a band desperately trying to grab some much-needed attention, then we don’t know what is. Then again, if you were a young teenage lad with awful music tastes, ‘Get A Load Of This’ would be perfect for the ole wank bank." Uh- ewwww, could do without that reference.

The debut album from NYC's "rauch-rock" band SLUNT! The Jägermeister and PBR-fueled "Get A Load Of This", co-produced by Scrap 60 (Eddie Wohl and Anthrax's Rob Caggiano,) the band is moving forward with full head banging force. From the cocky, tongue-in-cheek "The Best Thing" to the band's hardly-ironic cover of Romeo Void's "Never Say Never," Get A Load Of This is a brutally honest, no frills rock and roll catalyst to the greatest party you've ever attended.

Mystery `Eleanor Rigby' document goes to auction

By GREGORY KATZ, Associated Press

LONDON – Eleanor Rigby: fact or fiction?

That question, which has bedeviled Beatles' fans for decades, may be answered in part by a 1911 hospital payroll sheet to be auctioned in London on Thursday.

The document, sent by Paul McCartney in 1990 to the director of a music charity who had asked for funding, contains the signature of a scullery maid named "E. Rigby" who worked in a Liverpool hospital.

The director of the company auctioning the document believes the woman who signed the payroll is the same Eleanor Rigby buried in 1939 in a Liverpool graveyard next to the church where McCartney met the young John Lennon.

"I've spoken to the person who lived in the house where she used to live, and they've confirmed that the signature is the same signature of the person in the graveyard," said Tom Owen of the Fame Bureau auction house, adding that the finding may contradict McCartney's longtime assertion that the song was based on a made-up character.

"It's intriguing that McCartney owned it because he says he created the song around a fictitious figure," said Owen. "And yet, how did he have this document and why did he have it? When he was asked to donate money, he sent this."

Interest is so high it's estimated the document may fetch $750,000.

Read the rest of this interesting story here:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081125/ap_en_mu/eu_britain_beatles_mystery

Hendrix Classic

Hendrix' Electric Ladyland Gets Reexamined on December 9th

What is arguably Jimi Hendrix greatest album, Electric Ladyland, will get the full historical treatment on December 9 through Universal Music Enterprises. The album will be examined on the new DVD At Last...The Beginning: The Making of Electric Ladyland along with a CD/DVD combo set.

Electric Ladyland was Hendrix' third and last album with the original Experience and was the apex of the sound that he was trying to create with the group. With such well known songs as Crosstown Traffic, All Along the Watchtower and Burning the Midnight Lamp, the album is the only one by the artist ever to make it to the top of the Billboard Album chart.

Not only was the album the ultimate amalgamation of psychedelic and funk, but it also contained numerous special techniques in echo, backward tape and flanging that had previously not been combined in such a way.

The DVD documentary contains interviews with many of Hendrix associates from forty years ago, including Noel Redding, Mitch Mitchell, Buddy Miles, Jack Cassady, Steve Winwood and Dave Mason. The recording techniques are demonstrated by original engineer Eddie Kramer, showing examples of how they were created using the original multitrack tape. The documentary is based around the original Classic Albums show on Electric Ladyland with over 40 minutes of additional program.

The CD track listing:

...And The Gods Made Love
Have You Ever Been (To Electric Ladyland)
Crosstown Traffic
Voodoo Chile
Little Miss Strange
Long Hot Summer Night
Come On (Let The Good Times Roll)
Gypsy Eyes
Burning of the Midnight Lamp
Rainy Day, Dream Away
1983... (A Merman I Should Turn To Be)
Moon, Turn The Tides...Gently Gently Away
Still Raining, Still Dreaming
House Burning Down
All Along The Watchtower
Voodoo Child (Slight Return)

The DVD track listing:
Prologue
Burning of the Midnight Lamp
...And The Gods Made Love
All Along The Watchtower
Rainy Day, Dream Away
Still Raining, Still Dreaming
Voodoo Chile
Crosstown Traffic
Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)
Little Miss Strange
Gypsy Eyes
South Saturn Delta
House Burning Down
1983... (A Merman I Should Turn To Be)
Long Hot Summer Night
Have You Ever Been (To Electric Ladyland)
Epilogue

New Vinyl Releases

Asobi Seksu: Citrus (vinyl reissue)
Austrian Death Machine: A Very Brutal Christmas (single)
Brian Jonestown Massacre: Spacegirl and Other Favorites (vinyl reissue)
Britney Spears: Womanizer (import single)
Coldplay: Prospekt's Prospekt's March [Vinyl] [EP] (import)
Fennesz: Black Sea (vinyl)
Iggy & The Stooges: Raw Power (vinyl reissue)




Jimmy Page & The Black Crowes: Live at the Greek (3-LP vinyl)












Judas Priest: Hero Hero (vinyl reissue)












Judas Priest: Rocka Rolla (vinyl reissue)
Julian Cope: You Gotta Problem with Me (vinyl)
Lydia Lunch: Frankie Teardrop (vinyl)
Motley Crue: Dr. Feelgood (vinyl reissue)
Motley Crue: GIRLS GIRLS GIRLS [LP VINYL] (vinyl reissue)
Motley Crue: Saints of Los Angeles (vinyl reissue)
Motley Crue: Shout At the Devil (vinyl reissue)



Motley Crue: THEATRE OF PAIN (vinyl reissue)



Motley Crue: Motley Crue - Too Fast for Love (vinyl reissue)
Nada Surf: Vinyl Box Set 1994-2008 (7-disc vinyl box set)
Replacements: Tim (vinyl reissue)
Santana: Abraxas Santana " ABRAXAS " REMASTERED 180 Gram Vinyl Record Album {ORIGINAL MASTER RECORDING} MFL (vinyl reissue)
Santana: Santana (vinyl reissue)
Supersuckers: Get It Together (vinyl)
Surf City: Surf City (vinyl)
Was (Not Was): Boo! (vinyl)
Fireman (Paul McCartney) Electric Arguments LP
Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Live at Massey Hall 1971

As Taboos Ease, Saudi Girl Group Dares to Rock

By ROBERT F. WORTH

JIDDA, Saudi Arabia — They cannot perform in public. They cannot pose for album cover photographs. Even their jam sessions are secret, for fear of offending the religious authorities in this ultraconservative kingdom.

But the members of Saudi Arabia’s first all-girl rock band, the Accolade, are clearly not afraid of taboos.

The band’s first single, “Pinocchio,” has become an underground hit here, with hundreds of young Saudis downloading the song from the group’s MySpace page. Now, the pioneering foursome, all of them college students, want to start playing regular gigs — inside private compounds, of course — and recording an album.

“In Saudi, yes, it’s a challenge,” said the group’s lead singer, Lamia, who has piercings on her left eyebrow and beneath her bottom lip. (Like other band members, she gave only her first name.) “Maybe we’re crazy. But we wanted to do something different.”

Because this is copyrighted material, I can't post the whole article. To read the rest of this interesting piece, please visit the N.Y. Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/24/world/middleeast/24saudi.html?_r=1&bl&ex=1227675600&en=bd682c7ab16daa1e&ei=5087%0A#

Top Ten TV Theme Songs

Let's explore PasteMagazine.com's list of theme songs, this time see what made #4 on their list:

4. Peter Gunn - Henry Mancini

The P.I. wouldn't have been nearly as hip if his every move wasn't accompanied by music from Mancini. The theme music has been covered by everyone from Duane Eddy and Jimi Hendrix to Aerosmith, Pulp and The Cramps. Even Quincy Jones has recorded a version of it—and when Jones covers a song, you know it's cool.



Peter Gunn was an American private eye TV show that aired on the NBC and later ABC television networks from 1958 to 1961. The title character (played by Craig Stevens) was a private investigator and a sophisticated "hipster" who loved cool jazz; Peter Gunn was portrayed as the epitome of "cool".

The show's use of jazz, at a time when most TV shows used orchestra for the soundtrack, was another unique touch that set a trend for many years to come.

The main theme from Peter Gunn became an instant hit for Mancini, earning him an Emmy Award and two Grammys and which has since been covered by numerous jazz, blues, and rock artists.

interesting tidbits:

In Stephen King's novel Misery, Annie Wilkes poisons a cat named Peter Gunn.

After the two-season run on NBC and the single season on ABC, Edwards made numerous attempts to revive the character in other media. A novel and a comic book were released in 1960.

A feature film, Gunn, was made in 1967, and ABC carried a pilot in 1989 with Peter Strauss in the lead role, but they failed to catch on.


There are various vinyl releases of the music and the Lp's range from $10-50, depending on which copy you have.

Classic Rock Videos

Janis Joplin - Cry Baby (live in toronto 1970)

Album Cover Art

Let's continue our look at the Gigwise.com list of the top 50 dirtiest and sexiest album covers (as compiled by their staff- Gigwise comments in quotes):


28. Herbie Mann: ‘Push Push’ – "From a heterosexual male perspective, it’s hard to see what could possibly be rousing about Herbie Mann’s 1971 record with Duane Allman. Flouting his thick curly chest hair and ominously holding his flute as if it’s some kind of sex toy, to us at least, it’s stomach-churningly cheesy. Mr Mann seems to be pleased with himself. The dirty bugger."

Herbert Jay Solomon (April 16, 1930 – July 1, 2003), better known as Herbie Mann, was an American jazz flautist and important early practitioner of world music. Early in his career, he also played saxophones and clarinets (including bass clarinet), but Mann was among the first jazz musicians to specialize on the flute and was perhaps jazz music's preeminent flautist during the 1960s.

Mann was an early pioneer in the fusing of jazz and world music. He incorporated elements of African music in 1959 following a State Department sponsored tour of the continent, adding a conga player to his band, and the same year recorded Flautista, an album of Afro-Cuban jazz. In 1961 Mann took a tour of Brazil and returned to the United States to record with Brazilian players including Antonio Carlos Jobim and guitarist Baden Powell. These albums helped popularize the bossa nova. Many of his albums throughout his career returned to Brazilian themes. He went on to record reggae in London (in 1974), Middle Eastern (1966 and 1967) (with oud and dumbek), and Eastern European styles.

This Date In Music History-November 25

Birthdays:

Percy Sledge ("When A Man Loves A Woman") turns 67.

Folk/rocker Bob Lind, who went to #5 with "Elusive Butterfly" in 1966, was born in 1944.

Christian pop singer Amy Grant was born in Augusta, Georgia in 1960.

They Are Missed:

Dancer Bill "Bojangles" Robinson (inspiration for the song "Mr. Bojangles") died in 1949.

Jazz saxophonist Albert Ayler was discovered drowned in the Hudson River in 1970. His death at age 34 soon becomes the stuff of legend, with some speculating he committed suicide, while others claim he was tied to a jukebox.

In 1974, 26 year-old Nick Drake, an English singer, songwriter and musician best known for his acoustic tunes, died from an overdose of amitriptyline, a type of anti-depressant. Although he failed to find a wide audience during his lifetime, Drake's work has grown steadily in stature, to the extent that he is now widely considered one of the most influential English singer-songwriters of the last 50 years.

History:

Miles Davis made his first recordings as part of Charlie Parker's band in 1945.

John Lennon returned his MBE to the queen. The attached note reads, "Your Majesty, I am returning this MBE in protest against Britain's involvement in the Nigeria-Biafra thing, against our support of America in Vietnam, and against 'Cold Turkey' slipping down the charts. With love, John Lennon of Bag."

The Band's final concert in 1976, called The Last Waltz, was given at San Francisco's Winterland. It included appearances by Bob Dylan, Van Morrison, Eric Clapton, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, Ringo Starr, Emmylou Harris, Muddy Waters, Ronnie Hawkins and Neil Diamond.

The Beatles' "White Album" was released in 1968.

In London in 1965, Harrod's department store stayed open for two hours so the Beatles could do their Christmas shopping.

In 1966, Jimi Hendrix was introduced to the British press when the Experience play London's Bag O'Nails club.

"Incense and Peppermints" by The Strawberry Alarm Clock hit the top of the Billboard Pop chart in 1967. The recording was initially intended as a 'b-side' and the lead vocal is actually that of a friend of the band, 16 year old Greg Munford, who was just hanging around during the session. Munford was not even a regular band member, but ended up singing a tune that would become a Rock and Roll standard and sell over a million copies. Despite this success, Munford never actually joined the group and drummer Randy Seol sang the song in concert (the single didn't chart at all in the UK).

In 1968, over 10,000 fans saw Cream play their final two concerts at the Royal Albert Hall in London. During the shows, the crowd chanted "God save the Cream."

In 1986, for the first time in Billboard chart history, the top three spots were occupied by female artists. #1 is Cyndi Lauper's "True Colors", #2 is Tina Turner with "Typical Male" and #3 is Janet Jackson's "When I Think Of You".

The Beatles' album simply titled "1", a collection of their UK and US chart toppers, reached number one in Great Britain in 2000. It will top the US chart a week later and will become the best selling album in a total of 28 countries worldwide.

I have posted many stories about independent record shops (mainly ones that are still open) but this story really hit home. It is up to us, the vinyl record consumers, to visit our local record shops and spend our money there. Otherwise we have the closings of historic audio meeting places. I found this online (http://www.greeleytribune.com) and thought I would share it:

Bye, bye to The Finest records

“I went down to the sacred store,
Where I’d heard the music years before,
But the man there said the music wouldn’t play.”

Don McLean - American Pie

It’s an unfortunate sign of the times.

The closing of The Finest records in Greeley is like the demise of the drive-in or the closing of the last soda fountain. It signals the end of an era.

Consumers, it seems, are no longer buying their music at retail stores. Most are downloading their favorite songs directly onto their computers, and either burning their own discs or putting it directly into their iPods.

The Finest owner Jim Risser bravely withstood the technology boom longer than many others. Since 2003, 3,100 music retailers have closed across the United States. Of those, 1,400 were independent retailers like The Finest.

Risser tried to change with the times. He sold vintage vinyl records for the collectors. He set up a kiosk where patrons could download music. He sold novelty items and trimmed his budget.

Still, it wasn’t enough. And so as soon as Risser can liquidate his inventory, he will close his doors at his Hillside store, 2529 11th Ave.

It will be a blue day in Greeley when The Finest shuts its doors. Risser has spent 32 years with the store, first as a customer, then as a clerk, manager and eventually store owner. He will keep his Fort Collins store open through at least August, when his lease is up for renewal. Then he’ll decide whether to keep the store or close it like its sister store in Greeley.

This has been a difficult year for many Greeley businesses large and small. K-Mart, Dillards, The Bread Board, The Red Roaster and Hallmark have joined The Finest in closing their doors.

These closings should serve as a reminder to us all, especially this holiday shopping season, that we must support our local businesses. Not only is it good for the stores, it’s good for our local economy, keeping those sales tax dollars in Greeley rather than leaving them in nearby municipalities such as Loveland and Denver.

We wish Risser, and others who have been forced to close their doors, the best of luck in their future endeavors. They will be missed.

Like drive-ins and soda fountains, a few small record stores may remain for novelty sake. But in the end, most won’t survive the iPod generation. And for that, we are nostalgic, and even a bit sad.

“Bye, bye Miss American pie ...”