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Apr 11, 2015 - 11:52 AM
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RonBurbella
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Yes! I do remember that store. But for the life of me, I can't remember its name.
But, in the 1970s, I was in that store, and I bought a sh*tload of rare soundtracks (at least 50), while on a Boston trip.
Pretty near maxed out my credit card and all the cash I could spare.
And they were reasonably priced, at least for me, who was used to New York City prices.
Jeez, afterwards I had DREAMS about that little gem of a store. Even now, I get a mellow feeling reminiscing about it.
You only find one of those mother-lode, lost-goldmine soundtrack stores a couple of times in a collecting career.
Definitely in my "Top Ten."
I was never able to go back, but I bought most of what I was interested in when I was there that one time.
The good stuff I left behind would have been duplicates for trading.
I wonder if anyone will recall the store's name? It will be funny if it's something obvious, like Beacon Hill Records.
Ron Burbella
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Speaking of Cambridge…
How can I not have a sweet nostalgic thought of the time I moved from Connecticut to Cambridge in 1970, and experienced one of my all-time happiest shopping-for-music moments? There was a little record store on Mass. Ave., just a short walk from my apartment. As it turns out, I had arrived in town at the best possible time. As fate would have it, the store keepers had just decided to clear out of their basement, and put on sale, all the LP's and EP's that had been gathering dust since as far back as the Fifties. Imagine my amazement and delight to walk into that store and find in its stacks -- and at bargain prices -- the original RCA LP of Sainton's MOBY DICK, (still one of my all-time favorite scores), and a little MGM Records box, the size of a reel-to-reel tape box, containing on two discs Original Sound Track suites from Rozsa's IVANHOE and PLYMOUTH ADVENTURE.
What a happy winter I had that season!
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Apr 11, 2015 - 9:49 PM
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PFK
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Reed, Ron, Preston and others:
Ed Durbeck
Beacon Hill Book and Record
17 Myrtle Street,
Boston, Mass. 02114
phone: 523-5807
Guys, I think this is the store you are talking about. I lived in the Boston area from 1946 to 1987.
I got out of the Navy in 1971 and often visited this store, among others. The Boston area in the 60s and 70s had a ton of used and new record stores.
I got to know Ed very well. He was a HUGE opera fan. I think he opened the store about 1970 and sold it to a young guy around 1976 or so. Ed then moved to California, I think he now lives in Oceanside CA. On a trip to Calif. in 1980 I ran into Ed at the Capitol Records record meet in Hollywood. He remembered me. His store was only a block or so away from the State House.
Go to google and type in: Ed Durbeck. He has a website about opera, was interviewed by the LA Times etc. There are also a few other guys with the same name so don't get confused.
I liked Ed, but he was hard to deal with. We did trade some records. In 1971 his prices were high, then they went sky high! He wanted $30 (in 1972!) for a LP you could easily find in K-Mart for 50 cents! Etc. Etc.
On Saturdays sometimes other film score fans would come to the store and all of us would chat a bit about film scores. In the early 70s Bernard Herrmann was a hot topic there.
Ed started a news letter call Round Sound. It was $20 or $30 a year in 1971 money! When he moved to Calif. he called it Round Sound West.
Ed sold all kinds of LPs, but his love was Opera. Read his LA Times story, you can find it at Google.
I hope Ed is alive and well. He would be about 80 now.
I also hope you guys find this all very interesting. Let me hear your comments.
...... Peter
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Apr 11, 2015 - 10:27 PM
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Reed Birney
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By gum, I think that's it! I did a Google street view search and it seems very familiar. It's so long ago, of course, but, boy, did I spend hours in there running my hands along the rows and rows of titles. So much fun. I do think they were pricey, if I remember correctly, but so many titles that made my heart race faster. It really was the cornerstone of my collection. I still have all the LPs, stored in the attic as they've almost all been supplanted by a CD version, or I've made a CD. But I can't bear to let the originals go. Thank you for solving the riddle. Good good times.
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Jumping to the west coast, do any of our San Francisco members remember Jack Nelson's The RECORD HOUSE? It was one of the best in San Francisco for soundtracks and original casts back in the early to late 70's (although there were a lot of good soundtrack places at that time.) I believe it was located on Polk or Larkin, but when I revisited in 1980, Jack had relocated to a somewhat smaller location on Market Street.
No doubt, Jack is now no longer with us as he was in his 40's in.
(Sorry for hijacking your subject, Reed.)
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Apr 12, 2015 - 10:42 AM
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PFK
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By gum, that's the guy! I thought I recalled Beacon Hill was in the store's name...and it was!
And to find out that I was on the Round Sound mailing list for years and didn't know it was the same guy from Boston. The multi-page Round Sound (West) mailing list was rather busy and mostly had the usual stuff. But you had to read it carefully because here and there were buried really obscure gems. Heck, I may even have a few Round Sound lists in a box buried somewhere out in the garage. I tended to save those tings as film music history, or some other such demented rationalization. :-)
Good memories from pleasant times past. Some of our collecting careers crossed through that store, though unknown to each other. The Footlight Records of Boston. Thanks for the info, PFK.
Ron Burbella
Hi Ron, you and the others might get a kick out of this story.
Ed Durbeck's store had no bathroom! A couple of times I was there he asked me to watch the store while he ran to use the bathroom at the hotel next door! I guess he trusted me with the soundtracks. Ed kept all the cash in his pants pocket. He had a huge roll of bills, they made quite a bulge!
Back in the early 70s our paths might have crossed on a Saturday in Ed's store. Well, we are all on the internet now. I too miss the days of real record stores.
Oh, another story about ED. After he sold the store about 1976 I ran into him at a record meet in Hollywood. I barely recognized him. He had lost weight, new hair style etc. He now had a very hot girlfriend maybe 15 - 18 years younger than he was.
Maybe I should start collecting Opera LPs! 
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Durgin Park…
Ah, memories.
Thanks, HL!
And thanks, Peter!
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