For the record

You can learn a lot about a person by the records he auctions.

On Saturday, I went to an auction and ended up with a 1940 Underwood typewriter and a collection of records. It was an all-or-nothing deal, and only $2 for all. All are singles, most are 45s, and none have covers.

The 78s:

  • Harry Adams: “Arkansas Traveler” / “Milk Bucket Boogie”
  • Ben Light and the Steinway: “I’ll See You in My Dreams” (there’s a chip on the edge of this side) / “My Blue Heaven”
  • Claude Thornhill and his Orchestra: “A Sunday Kind of Love” / “Sonata”
  • Frankie Carle and his Orchestra: “What’ve You Got to Lose (But Your Heart)” / “Easy Pickin’s”
  • Frankie Carle and his Orchestra: “I Had a Little Talk With the Lord” / “A Little of the Lonely Side”
  • Jo Stafford: “Once to Every Heart” / “Keep it a Secret”

The 45s:

  • Air Supply: “Lost in Love” / “I Don’t Want to Lose You”
  • Herb Alpert: “Aranjuez” / “Rise”
  • Ambrosia: “Biggest Part of Me” / “Livin’ on My Own”
  • America: “A Horse with No Name” / “I Need You”
  • Paul Anka: “I Don’t Like to Sleep Alone” / “How Can Anything Be Beautiful — After You”
  • Bachman-Turner Overdrive: “Free Wheelin'” / “You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet”
  • Bachman-Turner Overdrive: “Tramp” / “Let it Ride”
  • Bay City Rollers: “You Made Me Believe in Magic” / “Dance Dance Dance”
  • The Beach Boys: “The T M Song” / “Rock and Roll Music”
  • Bee Gees: “Stayin’ Alive” / “If I Can’t Have You”
  • Bee Gees: “Edge of the Universe” / “Nights on Broadway”
  • The Bee Gees: “Country Woman” / “How Can You Mend a Broken Heart”
  • Debby Boone: “You Light Up My Life” / “He’s a Rebel”
  • Glen Campbell: “By the Time I Get to Phoenix” / “You’ve Still Got a Place in My Heart”
  • Glen Campbell: “Lonely My Lonely Friend” / “Try a Little Kindness”
  • Glen Campbell: “Wichita Lineman” / “Fate of Man”
  • Carpenters: “Road Ode” / “Yesterday Once More”
  • Carpenters: “Saturday” / “Rainy Days and Mondays”
  • Carpenters: “Superstar” / “Bless the Beasts and Children”
  • Carpenters: “I Kept on Loving You” / “(They Long to Be) Close to You”
  • Cher: “Mama (When My Dollies Have Babies)” / “You Better Sit Down Kids”
  • Cher: “The Way of Love” / “Don’t Put it on Me”
  • Chicago: “Just You ‘N’ Me” / “Critic’s Choice”
  • Chicago: “If You Leave Me Now” / “Together Again”
  • Chicago: “Colour My World” / “I’m a Man”
  • Commodores: “Still” / “Such a Woman”
  • Perry Como: “It’s Impossible” / “Long Life, Lots of Happiness”
  • John Conlee: “Rose Colored Glasses” / “I’ll Be Easy”
  • The Cowsills: “What is Happy?” / “Hair”
  • Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young: “Our House” / “Deja Vu”
  • Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young: “Carry On” / “Teach Your Children”
  • Christopher Cross: “Never Be the Same” / “The Light is On”
  • Cymarron: “Rings” / “Like Children”
  • John Denver: “Thank God I’m a Country Boy” / “My Sweet Lady”
  • John Denver: “Take Me Home, Country Roads” / “Poems, Prayers and Promises”
  • Diana Ross and the Supremes: “Love Child” / “Will This Be the Day”
  • Dire Straits: “One World” / “Walk of Life”
  • The Doobie Brothers: “Without You” / “Long Train Runnin'”
  • Doors: “Wild Child” / “Touch Me”
  • Big Al Downing: “The Story Behind the Story” (mono) / “The Story Behind the Story” (stero) (Promotion copy)
  • Robbie Dupree: “Steal Away” / “I’m No Stranger”
  • Yvonne Elliman: “Love Me” / “(I Don’t Know Why) I Keep Hangin’ On”
  • Emotion: “Samantha Sang” / “When Love is Gone”
  • Exile: “You Thrill Me (Edit)” / “Kiss You All Over (Edit)”
  • Freddy Fender: “Before the Next Teardrop Falls” / “Waiting for Your Love”
  • Englebert Humperdinck: “Release Me (And Let Me Love Again” / “There Goes My Everything”
  • Fleetwood Mac: “Sara” / “That’s Enough for Me”
  • Four Seasons: “Who Loves You” / “Who Loves You (Disco Version)”
  • Gordon Lightfoot: “Sundown” / “Too Late for Prayin'”
  • Gordon Lightfoot: “If You Could Read My Mind” / “Me and Bobby McGee”
  • Grand Funk: “Destitute & Losin'” / “The Loco-Motion”
  • Grand Funk: “Some Kind of Wonderful” / “Wild”
  • Grand Funk Railroad: “I Come Tumblin'” / “Footstompin’ Music”
  • Grant Grieves and the Flashbacks: “I’ve Got You” / “Good Time Girl”
  • Al Green: “Let’s Stay Together” / “Tomorrow’s Dream”
  • Al Green: “School Days” / “Sha-la-la (Make Me Happy)”
  • Andy Gibb: “(Love Is) Thicker Than Water” / “Words and Music”
  • Hot Chocolate: “A Love Like Yours” / “Emma”
  • Hugo Montenegro and His Orchestra: “For a Few Dollars More” / “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly”
  • The Jackson 5: “I’ll Be There” / “One More Chance”
  • Jethro Tull: “Bungle in the Jungle” / “Back-Door Angels”
  • Elton John: “Conquer the Sun” / “Little Jeannie”
  • George Jones: “He Stopped Loving Her Today” / “A Hard Act to Follow”
  • K.C. and the Sunshine Band: “I Betcha Didn’t Know That” / “Please Don’t Go”
  • Kris Kristofferson: “Why Me” / “Jesus Was a Capricorn (Owed to John Prine)”
  • Kris Kristofferson: “Help Me” / “Why Me”
  • Led Zeppelin: “D’yer Mak’er” / “The Crunge”
  • The Lemon Pipers: “No Help From Me” / “Green Tambourine”
  • The Lettermen: “I Believe” / “Can’t Take My Eyes Off You”
  • Melissa Manchester: “I Got Eyes” / “Midnight Blue”
  • Barry Manilow: “I Write The Songs” / “A Nice Boy Like Me”
  • Bobbi Martin: “For the Love of Him” / “I Fall to Pieces”
  • Meat Loaf: “Two Out of Three Ain’t Bad” / “For Crying Out Loud”
  • Anne Murray: “Another Sleepless Night” / “It Should Have Been Easy”
  • Anne Murray: “Why Don’t You Stick Around” / “Broken Hearted Me”
  • Anne Murray: “Somebody’s Waiting” / “Could I Have This Dance”
  • Anne Murray: “I Still Wish the Very Best for You” / “You Needed Me”
  • David Naughton: “Makin’ It” / “Still Makin’ It”
  • The New Seekers: “Look What They’ve Done to my Song Ma” / “It’s a Beautiful Day” — This one has a yard sale price sticker on it: “25 cents or 5 for $1.”
  • Randy Newman: “Short People” / “Baltimore (Edit)”
  • Olivia Newton-John: “I Honestly Love You” / “Home Ain’t Home Anymore”
  • Orleans: “Dance With Me” / “Ending of a Song”
  • Donny Osmond: “The Wild Rover (Time to Ride)” / “Go Away Little Girl”
  • Donny and Marie Osmond: “I’m Leaving it (All) Up to You” / “The Umbrella Song”
  • Ozark Mountain Daredevils: “If You Wanna Get to Heaven” / “Spaceship Orion”
  • The Partridge Family: “I’ll Meet You Halfway” / “Morning Rider on the Road”
  • Peaches & Herb: “We’ve Got to Love One Another” / “Two Little Kids”
  • Ray Price: “For the Good Times” / “I Won’t Mention it Again”
  • Prince: “I Wanna Be Your Lover” / “My Love is Forever”
  • Raspberries: “Hard to Get Over a Heartbreak” / “Tonight”
  • Raspberries: “Let’s Pretend” / “Every Way I Can”
  • Jim Reeves: “I’ve Enjoyed as Much of This as I Can Stand” / “Don’t Let Me Cross Over”
  • Charlie Rich: “The Most Beautiful Girl” / “I Feel Like Going Home”
  • Johnny Rivers: “Outside Help” / “Swayin’ to the Music (Slow Dancin’)”
  • Kenny Rogers: “You Decorated My Life” / “One Man’s Woman”
  • Kenny Rogers: “Love the World Away” / “Sayin’ Goodbye/Requiem: Goin’ Home to the Rock”
  • Neil Sedaka: “Laughter in the Rain” / “Endlessly”
  • T.G. Sheppard: “You Feel Good All Over” / “I Wish That I Could Hurt That Way Again”
  • Bobby Sherman: “One Too Many Mornings” / “Little Woman”
  • Barbra Streisand: “Woman in Love” / “Run Wild”
  • Edwin Starr: “War” / “He Who Picks a Rose”
  • Styx: “Lady” / “Children of the Land (Short Version)”
  • Sugarloaf/Jerry Corbetta: “Texas Two-Lane” / “Don’t Call Us, We’ll Call You”
  • Donna Summer: “There Will Always Be a You” / “On the Radio”
  • James Taylor: “Steamroller” / “You’ve Got a Friend”
  • Joe Tex: “I Gotcha” / “A Mother’s Prayer”
  • B.J. Thomas: “Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head” / “Never Had it So Good”
  • Hank Thompson: “Point of No Return” / “Tony’s Tank-Up, Drive-In Cafe” (Promotion copy)
  • Conway Twitty: “She Thinks I Still Care” / “I’d Just Love to Lay You Down”
  • Frankie Valli: “My Eyes Adored You” / “Watch Where You Walk”
  • Randy Vanwarmer: “Just When I Needed You Most” / “Your Light”
  • Roger Voudouris: “Get Used to It” / “The Next Time Around”
  • Willie Nelson: “Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain” / “Remember Me (When the Candle Lights are Gleaming)”

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