An LA institution is vanishing as Mus...
24.08.09
LOS ANGELES — The 45s, the 78s, the vinyl LPs, the CDs are all spinning to a close down, 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 intangible record, the one you spent years searching in improperly cirque for until you found Murray - is closing up look for 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, produce-condition "Yesterday and Today" album by the Beatles, the one with the celebrated "butcher cover" that makes it significance thousands of dollars, needs a severely.
No, says Murray Gershenz, an hot man of 87, he's not getting too old to run Music Man Murray's. Reality is, he says, his budding livelihood as a character actor is at long last taking off and he just can't commit the time anymore that a history collection like his deserves.
So someone else will have to keep keep safe over those ancient and fragile discs like the 100-year-old 78s recorded by Swedish opera minstrel Sigrid Onegin.
Source: The Canadian Press