Vinyl Etc: For my children…

I bought this used record today. I lost a lot of my records in a flood back in 1980, and this was one of them. I had replaced it on CD years later, but now I have it on vinyl again, and it was pure pleasure listening to it tonight. This album includes two of my favourite Neil Diamond songs, ‘Play Me’ and ‘Morningside’. If you know the song Morningside you know it’s about an old man who carves whatbecomes his epitaph in to a table he made with his own hands. My Dad was a carpenter, and when I first heard this song in the mid ’70s it made me cry because the old man sounded like my ‘old man’. My Dad passed away over 13 years ago… and every time I hear this song the line “For my children” makes me tear up, happy tears, because of all the things my Dad left me! 

I missed a bit of drama in a Vinyl group I belong to, the woman selling this was called out for selling overpriced garbage! I paid $5, could I have bought it elsewhere for less, possibly, but add shipping and it would have been more! Could I have found one in better condition, hard to say… maybe, or maybe I would have bought one that was supposed to be better and only found out when I got it that it wasn’t. And all that after paying the price plus shipping! Anyone want to but a copy of Mary Hopkin’s Post Card album, it is so bad I didn’t even play it through… a very disappointing purchase. This Neil Diamond record is the 1972 Canadian first issue pressing with the U.S. sleeve. I mention that because the sleeve was a special textured sleeve with a deliberate ragged opening and a card stock inner sleeve, same as the one I had. So… this record cost me $5, but what it gave me tonight… Priceless!