Spinning My Dad’s Vinyl
by Frank Vaccariello
Latest episode
Volume 254: Into the Wild BLUE Yonder
Volume 254: Into the Wild BLUE Yonder
About this podcast
Extensive and Eclectic and we hear them as is with scratches, crackles and pops.
Being a radio and mobile DJ for a decade and a half, I collected several hundred albums. I had nothing on my dad who owned more than 500 (33 1/3) LPs and over 100 78 RPMs at the time of his death in December 2019. I had no idea he had so many. We found them spread all over the house when we prepared for the estate sale. I went through every one and categorized them on an app called Discogs. I thought so many were unique, I decided to start a podcast called Spinning My Dad’s Vinyl. Each episode will feature an album. I’ll tell stories about the family listening to these albums and I’ll give other info about the album and the time it was released.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 200 episodes
- Volume 254: Into the Wild BLUE Yonder · 45 min · Season 6 Episode 254I’m on the front porch of Cleveland, Mall C, which is across the freeway from Huntington Bank Field where the Cleveland Browns play, The Great Lakes Science Center, The Rock and…
- Volume 253: Valentines is for Lovers · 45 min · Season 6 Episode 253Happy Valentine's Day! Of course my dad had plenty of romantic music. So that’s why we are able to do this special episode. There was a popular radio format known as Easy…
- Volume 252: A Champagne Christmas · 40 min · Season 6 Episode 252Merry Christmas! My dad had a couple dozen records meant just for this time of year. So I HAD to come back for a Christmas Day music show. I talked a lot in yesterday's deep dive…
- Volume 251: A Cleveland Ballet Christmas Tradition · 46 min · Season 6 Episode 251The Nutcracker: Concert Suite vs. BalletWelcome back and Merry Christmas Eve. My girlfriend Karen and I partook in a Northcoast Christmas season tradition a week and a half ago…
- Volume 250: Fading Out My Way · 1 h 24 min · Season 5 Episode 250My Dad's Greatest HitsThis will be my last regularly scheduled weekly episode. We’ll talk about that as we go along. One of the last songs my dad heard in his hospital bed the…
- Volume 249: A Pope Visits · 50 min · Season 5 Episode 249Historic Papal VisitWe haven't broken away from music for a while, but what have I told you before? My dad has a record for every occasion. 60 years ago yesterday, on October 4…
- Volume 248: Down Mexico Way · 35 min · Season 5 Episode 248TJB South of the BorderOK…I was having Tijuana Brass withdrawals. While I did play plenty of his music in Volume 222: A TJB Concert Rewind earlier this year, that was a special…
- Volume 247: A Conniff Concert · 33 min · Season 5 Episode 247Ray Conniff Improvisations My father must have really loved the music of Ray Conniff. This is the sixth of eight albums from this arranger and orchestra leader in my dad’s…
- Volume 246: Western Trails · 42 min · Season 5 Episode 246Real Country and Western MusicWe are pulling out the 6th record of this seven record set that has really grown on me over the four and a half years of this show. Reader’s Digest…
- Volume 245: Sammy Jumps With Joya · 34 min · Season 5 Episode 245Joy from Sammy and JoyaUsually I don’t title the episode exactly the same as the album I’m featuring, but this one was just too good not to use. Yes, we will hear the artist I…
- Volume 244: Big Band Vocals · 29 min · Season 5 Episode 244Great Big Band VocalistsMost times when the Longines Symphonette Society put out albums, we had no idea who the musicians were. But sometimes they did give us all the…
- Volume 243: Hi-Fi Hawaii · 33 min · Season 5 Episode 243Beautiful Hawaiian Music This is episode eleventeen hundred three thousand and forty-three of Spinning My Dad’s Vinyl. I might as well say anything I want anymore, because…
- Volume 242: Mancini's Gunn · 37 min · Season 5 Episode 242Peter Gunn TV Music This is the fourth of six Henry Mancini albums we’ve heard from my dad’s collection. This one is a little different, because most of the other records…
- Volume 241: Nashville Souvenirs · 38 min · Season 5 Episode 241The Ultimate Nashville Stars Here’s a nice little compilation album with some pretty big names on it. The recordings you are about to hear sold millions of copies combined. And…
- Volume 240: A Singing Satchmo · 37 min · Season 5 Episode 240The Voice of Louis Armstrong My dad’s favorite trumpet player also was an extremely popular vocalist. I have documented many trumpet players who have also recorded their singing…
- Volume 239: Unknown Dixieland · 37 min · Season 5 Episode 239Dixieland Veterans My dad loved his Dixieland music. Even when he had no idea who was performing it. This is a perfect album for that mindset, because this budget label doesn’t…
- Volume 238: Maynard's Horn · 38 min · Season 5 Episode 238Maynard Ferguson's Hot Trumpet We now get to feature the second of two albums my dad had of MY favorite trumpet player. In fact, I haven’t seen a rock band more times than I’ve…
- Volume 237: A TV Page · 32 min · Season 5 Episode 237Here’s a voice we’ve heard before. It was during a 78 RPM Sunday when we had plenty of her shellac to fill a show. This singer went on to have her own TV show where she sang many…
- Volume 236: Tennessee Tons · 30 min · Season 5 Episode 236We are going to have a ton of fun with this episode. Well 16 tons. Ah. That was too easy. This is the only album my dad has of this great singer. But, it’s obviously the most…
- Volume 235: Still Stanley · 34 min · Season 5 Episode 2028We’ve already come close to proving that the named orchestra leader on this album probably doesn’t exist. I discussed that mystery in Volume 199: Tea and Trumpets. But the man…
