Music Man Murray prepares to spin las...
45S, the 78s, the vinyl LPs, the CDs are all spinning to a cease, and you can push the stop button on those old cylinder recorders.Music Man Murray — who for almost a half-century has been L.A.'s go-to-guy for that fugitive record, the one you spent years searching in boastful for until you found Murray — is closing up against and selling his collection of some 300,000 discs. Everything must go, from the rare 10-inch vinyl LPs, to the even rarer 19th century Edison cylinders. Even that framed, wads-condition "Yesterday and Today" album by the Beatles, the one with the celebrated "butcher cover" that makes it importance thousands of dollars, needs a bailiwick.
No, says Murray Gershenz, an brisk man of 87, he's not getting too old to run Music Man Murray's. Fact is, he says, his budding vocation as a character actor is absolutely taking off and he just can't put away the time anymore that a chronicle collection like his deserves.
So someone else will have to keep superintend over those ancient and fragile discs like the 100-year-old 78s recorded by Swedish opera choir girl Sigrid Onegin.
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