More Than Meets The Eye - 5 Recommended Dollar Bin Albums

[@leea202]

Booker T. Jones was married to Rita's sister Priscilla. Also, Rita helped write the piano section of Layla with her then boyfriend, Jim Gordon, keyboardist on Layla...

[@leea202]

Since you mentioned 1976 as a great year in music, here is an episode idea for you......all the classic live albums released in 1976.......of course, Frampton Comes Alive...but so many more...Robin Trower Live, One More For The Road by Lynyrd Skynyrd (from a benefit concert to save the Faboulous Fox Theatre in Atlanta.....play it pretty for Atlanta), Live Bullet by Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band, The Song Remains the Same by Led Zeppelin, All the World's a Stage by Rush, Wings Over America by Paul McCartney and Wings just to name a few.....what an amazing year for live performances!!! They all deserve a little pontification!

[@jameschant2740]

I'm with you Tim when it comes to the Seventies, what a musical decade to grow up in.

[@OrangeandBlueBloodBrett]

I totally agree I think Rita Coolidge has one of the most underrated voices there is I know it's kind of cheesy but my favorite song by her is I'd Rather Leave While I'm In Love she just has the most smooth voice. Another smooth female voice is Melissa Manchester she's one of my favorites too and oh by the way another great video can't wait for the next one. P.S. I love your long videos I don't care how long they are they're awesome and you give me so much information thanks again.

[@motnotsla1]

You might try maple syrup on your oatmeal. Seriously, I came of age in the early seventies and that music still has an emotional pull. Maggie May by Rod Stewart, Steely Dan's first album, Who's Next, etc. A golden age?

[@tbrown6559]

Just found a pristine copy of the Rita C album you mentioned in a box of records gifted to me! Very nice indeed! Thanks for your advice.

[@mikespins5894]

Very good recommendations so many great songs, on a side note, this week I picked up the first three ASIA records, very reasonably priced, upon further inspection of their third album ASTRA I noticed RL in the dead wax, I raced over and looked him up it turns out he mastered several albums in my collection, sadly not my copy of Zep ll, thanks for another great video, Peace!

[@joncarpenter984]

Great video I was kind of stunned and proud I have three of the five you have.Which sent me down the lane of artist I own on vinyl such as Gino Vaneli, Brewer and Shipley, Chris Rea, Warren Zevon, Firefall, Gilbert O Sullivan, Ian Matthews, Ambrosia, Robbie Dupree, Alisha Bridges, Lara Brannigan, Thanks Tim for firing me up on your behind the scenes artists who are all a big part of our 70,s music experience

[@brianmedeiros6845]

I found the Rita Coolidge yesterday at Sunset Records. The owner was happy with the list in a little lull with the popular records coming in. I made a nice breakfast of eggs,toast,bengals with cream cheese and orange juice this morning as we listened to Rita Coolidge anytime anyplace Thank You!

[@Universityofvinyl]

Sounds perfect!

[@batuksri]

Love Rita Coolidge’s version of We’re All Alone.

[@jasonsmith9845]

A lot of people must be watching your videos because two copies of Jay Furguson's Thunder Island got taken out of my Discogs cart since I put them in a couple of days ago... Thanks for all your great videos!

[@jeffreylind3739]

Great video as always, Tim! I'm about 5 yrs. older than you, so I remember the late 60s and all of the 70s as far as music goes. I have a term I use for the type of music you discussed here- "Ear Pudding". Not a whole lot of substance, but smooth, creamy and enjoyable nonetheless. These are great albums to add to any collection. Other Artists during this period that come to mind- Bee Gees, Linda Ronstadt (Yes she can rock, too!), Bread, Art Garfunkel, Pablo Cruise, Chicago, all had lots of enjoyable music that would easily fit this style.

[@Universityofvinyl]

Love that depiction! :-)

[@Brio-ko8lf]

Love the comments on this video I picked up an inexpensive album by Boz Skaggs “Middle Man” Great album and sounds amazing Love the era

[@theboomerscalper]

I am glad you are back at it. I am all about the $1 bin. Gino Vannelli’s Brother to Brother is another good one. *corrected title

[@Primeanaloggourmet]

Brother to Brother, Crazy Life, Powerful People, Gist of the Gemini, Storm at Sunup, Pauper in Paradise(written and arranged for the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra) all by Gino Vannelli and mastered by Bernie Grundman at A&M! An amazing artist and songwriter along with Joe and Ross his brothers! Any info you want to know about him I can help! Seen him live multiple times and been listening to him since I was 14 years old! He is still going strong writing and performing and just released another album!

[@theboomerscalper]

@@Primeanaloggourmet thanks for the correction.

[@howtovinyl]

It's weird how with how popular "yacht" rock has become that Rita Coolidge is still being overlooked (and cheap to buy!). Great recommendations!

[@jasonarsenault3791]

Haha. Oatmeal! Nice one Tim. Great idea for a video. Thanks again.

[@francescotenti193]

Another great video and proof that you don't have to spend ridiculous sums of money to have the nth special edition in limited numbers of famous album XYZ in a super deluxe box set in order to enjoy 45-50 minutes of good music plus the fun of going out looking for good deals instead of sitting behind a keyboard with a credit card ready. Back on the hunt in just a little while and, hopefully, I might get lucky and find other good stuff besides those 5 albums, you never know!

[@jdthompson5778]

I love the 70s and know and love all those hits! Now I want to find the albums. Don’t know David+David but will check out Boomtown too if I see it.

[@enriquealonso5994]

Picked up the Rita Coolidge album today for $1.00. Thanks for the tip.

[@tyleranderson1168]

A lot of the Poco albums are around $5. They are all solid!

[@Primeanaloggourmet]

Timothy B Schmitt who later went on to the Eagles! Classic!

[@festersuncle6298]

Behind you,, Bryan Ferry's lp w/Johnny Marr "The Right Stuff" is pretty much The Smiths "Money Changes Everything" great album. Nicolette Larson from '78 would fit here too.

[@Stuck_in_the_70s]

Here’s a great one for you if you haven’t got it. I recently took a punt on Poco’s ‘Head over heels’ for £2 in NM - what a corker that is!! It sounds fantastic (cut by Wally Traugott.) I don’t think I’d heard anything by them, perhaps much bigger in the US than UK but I noticed the album had a version of Steely Dan’s first single ‘Dallas’ on it, but the whole album is great.

[@BubbaBigDude]

Good stuff as always, love getting a deal on bargain bin albums. I was born in 1969 and love music from the 1970s and 1980s.

[@anthonyvigil-cdhs6016]

Man, we are one in the same!! Hit the record store and FM radio!!! Kilo 94 here in Colorado Springs/Pueblo! Best album rock station back from the 70's!!

[@Universityofvinyl]

Thx for watching!

[@alm5693]

Boomtown is a fabulous album. Spirit's early music was adventurous and rewarding, and Jay Ferguson later made some great solo pop songs. Agree that Rita Coolidge is a powerhouse of easy listening oatmeal.

[@kylemacarthur3177]

Your first choices are absolutely in the Yacht Rock category, and there is nothing wrong with that!

[@jasonsmith2032]

I have the Walter Egan. I'm streaming Careless and putting it in the discogs cart. Jay Ferguson sounds really good too. Thanks as always!

[@trippmoore]

I'm a child of the 80s, 8/9 years younger than you. I always loved LPs back in the day, rarely buying pre-recorded tapes (as long as I could afford the LP), and continued until I got my first CD player in 1989. Don't get me wrong, I like your channel, really I do. I just don't know how I feel about this one. It's so hard to find a decent record for a deal, let alone a grail, these days. I live out in the country and don't get to town very often, but when I get the chance I'll pop in to a GW or SA and go through everything they have. If you go enough times you will find something decent and occasionally find something pretty cool for $1, but it takes a lot of trips and a lot of digging. My best find in the last 12 months was a super nice (easily VG+/EX) copy of "It’s My Turn" by Buffy Sainte-Marie. When I listen to that album I get chills hearing her voice. Here's my problem... With you telling people about the secret good stuff that's going to make it even harder to impossible to score 1 decent record a year unless you can afford to hit up 3 GWs and a couple antique shops a day. When I go there now and don't find anything great I still never come home empty handed. I can usually find at least 1 NM classic LP that has very cool and unique cover art, and I will always buy every version of Bolero I find. I do the former even though I've told myself that I have already bought more than all the NM classical I'll ever need and I also have a goal to keep my vinyl collection at a usable and practical size. For the latter, Bolero is a special case not only because it's a very cool piece. It is also great for testing out a system when you set the volume to a "not too loud" level to start so that by the end you are really pushing the watts! Obviously I don't need more than one copy to test every system out, but I once heard that there is a pressing that was done so that the stylus is placed at the center of the record and then moves outward to the edge. Supposedly they did this as a trick to have the quieter and less dynamic part at the inner grooves while the ending with the entire orchestra and all the dynamics at outer grooves so as to minimize any inner groove distortion. I don't know if it makes much of a difference, I just think it would be totally cool to find a unique pressing like that for a buck that I had to work for. Outside of classical is when I get to the kind of stuff that this video is pimping. I will see something that I may have heard of or maybe I recognize one song that I probably have only heard a handful of times since it was a "hit" but other than that I don't know the artists or any of the other songs. The BSM album I mentioned before falls into this category for me, although I knew a couple of her songs and definitely knew who she was at the time that I found it at the GW. Another example would be something like a new LP I received last month from Vinyl Me Please, "Straight From the Heart" by Patrice Rushen. I only knew the hit "Forget Me Nots" and didn't remember her at all. I know VMP isn't GW, but I've seen her in the GW bins before and it's a perfect example if I had bought it there. I did, however, pick up "Step II" by Sylvester a couple weeks before it was announce as the Classic album of the month for February 2022 at Vinyl Me Please, so that was an interesting coincidence. It's finds like these that you really have to work for and, even at a $1-$5, risk picking up a complete dud for your cash that you work hard for (at least I do). But with you telling people about these types of records you are doing all the work for them and they aren't really learning anything. But worst of all is you are gonna make it nigh impossible for me and anyone else that's willing to put in the hard work to have these once a year experiences that are so indelible and at the heart those that truly appreciate the art form. If there are any surfers out there I'm sure you've heard the phrase "blowing up the spot". It's something that's frowned upon by the surfing community and that's what you are doing by not keeping stuff like this to yourself. I've been watching your channel for months and it seems like you have plenty of good topics like artists, albums, genres, engineers, and even producers to talk about. That stuff may not be as known by the younger generations, but for the most part it's info that has already been out there and has been covered in the past by others. You have your own unique take and style, so it's still interesting even if I've seen tons of docs and specials on Steely Dan, for example. You're cool and so is your channel. I doubt you have run that well dry, so why do you need to give away the "secret" knowledge that's not known by very many people today? Keep doing what you do, but quit blowing up my spot, brah!

[@DorianPaige00]

You need that Patrice Rushen.

[@trippmoore]

No comment on this? Or is that a tacit agreement? I’m more that willing to be adjudicated as the asshole here. I just want to address my concerns. Am I being overly dramatic? I hope so. I’d rather be overly dramatic that pay $50 for a decent copy of a Seals and Crofts LP.. This video got me thinking about all the times I passed up an album I’ve seen a 100 times at GW that I look at and think about buying but I can’t justify it for one reason or another. It’s only a buck, but I an’t made of money and Sometimes you gotta save that buck for a title you rarely come across at a GW and if you do it’s got 2 seam splits and it torn to shreds like it’s been at the bottom of a kitty liter box, Or it’s missing the outer sleeve, or its outer sleeve is there but this disk is nowhere in sight. That happened the last time I was in Salvation Army and I saw a VG++ cover of Breaking The motion picture soundtrack. As I child of the 80’s I broke down boxes with the kids on my block and proved how stupid we were and bad at breakdancing to boot, so this was like finding a moment in time of my youth and it has been waiting there amoung all the old ladies looking though used clothes and right next to the box of 50 telephone wall cords for $10 and then have it taken away like my childhood was a joke.

[@LyndonSoulGroove]

Hi Tim you know of artist "Al Stuart " highley recommend his Lp's they are well recorded at Abbey rd studios i've been listening to His 1973 lp, " Preset Future Past " such a Timeless Record ...

[@LyndonSoulGroove]

wow Fm radio was something that encapsulated a generation be it a mono transistor radio, or at a Fair ground comming from a big speaker on a ride , or a stereo music centre in 70's & 80's songs you would hear and stay in your head ......for years then you would hear them in future and transport you back to that time, and you know what you got more detail in those recordings because you had a better hi fi years later ....

[@linof.4141]

I have the Nautilus version of the Rita Coolidge album...

[@davidoswell3079]

Walter Egan Fundamental Roll is also good. His albums after that not so much. David and David is pretty great and I also like most of Jay Fergusons solo output.

[@Primeanaloggourmet]

Dont forget Rita also sang a James Bond theme for Octapussy called "All Time High"! Also while she was GF of Leon Russell he wrote the song "Delta Lady" about her!

[@Stuck_in_the_70s]

Unusually for one of your videos I’ve not got a single one of those records. I also don’t own any albums by any of the artists (except I think I might have one by Stephen Bishop kicking around somewhere.) I can’t resist a bargain bin tho, I love the digging through them and I have found some gems in there. Aside from that it’s always an easy way of trying out some new albums/artists/genres.

[@Primeanaloggourmet]

Steven Bishop "Never Letting Go" such a fabulous song and album!

[@leea202]

In his intro to Stephen Bishop Tim left out Stephen Bishop's cameo role as the beatnick on the stairs in the classic and iconic movie "Animal House"......

[@fer.morellich]

Boomtown is a great album. One of my favorites from the 80's.

[@DorianPaige00]

Spinners-S/t (Atlantic) Spinners-New and improved (Atlantic) Spinners-Pick of the litter (Atlantic) Spinners-Might Love (Atlantic) Teddy Pendergrass-S/T (Philadelphia International)

[@Universityofvinyl]

Love the Spinners!

[@casablanca2745]

Good stuff Mr. Tim and you skunked me as I don’t own any of them. Have the debut and others by the former Mrs Kristopherson as well as Spirit and Jo Jo Gunne. Ferry and Kate on display. Love Boys & Girls by the Roxy crooner. Thanks and keep on rockin in the free world.

[@kyle2beats]

jay Ferguson album is cool hot is for free

[@vinylrules4838]

I like your channel, but you really need to keep your videos to under 6 minutes. I just don't have time to watch a videos longer than that.

[@Universityofvinyl]

Thanks for the tip