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I don't care if it's cheesy or camp to like Ray Conniff's band of ghostly anonymous singers --- this stuff is excellent.

The album "Love Affair", for the most part is great stuff.

Who else enjoys this stuff?

He's certainly better than The Hollyridge Strings, now isn't he?

I'll take the Ray Charles Singers any day of the week over Conniff. I recently picked up a two-disc set career overview type disc, and I was disappointed. Much of it was kinda flat - certainly nothing to make you say, "How clever!" or anything like that. Even the Hollyridge Strings lp I recently dl'ed is better than this stuff.

In the process of collecting vinyl, I've run across thousands of Conniff albums.  They can be had for nothing.  They are usually a part of some recently deceased persons collection and are found alongside albums by Jim Nabors, Donnie and Marie, Andy Williams, and Montovani.
Help yourself.  There are enough for a landfill and no one seems to want them.

Yeah - don't forget Liverace - he can be had easily (in the collecting sense, at any rate.) Lawrence Welk too - if you could get all of those records together and somehow extract the petroleum - gas would immediately drop to 2002 price levels, and there'd be a nuclear war in the Middle East.

I was at a yard sale on Saturday - there were some cool-looking lps' there, including some old stereo demonstration discs that made my eyes fairly bug out. They must have gotten a bit wet at some point, though; the smell wasn't too great, and while leafing through the records I inadvertently touched my hand to my face... one side of my mouth immediately swelled to collagen proportions. I hauled ass outta there; next time I'll take a geiger counter or something.

Oh the joys of record collecting.   Ever find any strange insects living in and/or dining on the sleeves?

All right then; a geiger counter AND a can of Raid (Black Flag might cause some confusion at a swap meet. {Black Flag - geddit?})