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Aug 24, 2014 - 8:42 AM
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kjoseb
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Back in the days, when many posting here collected and traded soundtrack LPs with various soundtrack LP mail order outlets around the country, one of those outlets was run by, as I remember, William Wilson of Galion, Ohio. One day, while visiting my parents in New York City, I went to Interesting Records, a store maintaining a large inventory of cutout LP albums including soundtrack LPs. As I perused the soundtrack section, I listened to another customer chatting with the store owner and suddenly realized this customer was the William Wilson with whom I had been exchanging soundtrack LPs by mail.
Years later, in the 1990s, living in Reston, Virginia, I went to a record show held at the Best Western Hotel in Tysons Corner and again ran into Bill. This gave me an insight into the “business” – the first time I saw Bill at Interesting Records in New York City, he was acquiring LPs for his own collection or his business inventory; the second time I saw him, he was on the record show circuit trying to sell his stock. If I had any passing fancy of becoming a traveling hawker of rare soundtrack LPs, seeing Bill at that record show made me realize that it would be a lot of work to haul one’s inventory around the country and into and out of record shows. It was enough work for me just to collect soundtrack LPs and, when it came to exchanging albums, getting them packed and hauled to the post office to send to this or that retailer or another collector.
This brings me to my question: What was the name of the soundtrack LP mail order outlet/business that William (Bill) Wilson ran out of Galion, Ohio?
For some reason I have a vague recollection it may have been called "Soundtracks West" (but that would be a bit of a misnomer for a business based in the U.S. midwest.
Anyone reading this remember William Wilson and the name of his soundtrack LP mail order business?
Thanks, Kerry
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As to your question regarding William Wilson´s soundtrack mail order company, it was named "Words and Music". Living in Finland, it was one of the best (of the few) soundtrack dealers at the time. The owner had a very good selection of vinyl LPs, and I tried to save as much of my pocket money as I could, to order as many of his soundtracks as my monetary resources would allow.
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Kerry,
browsing now thru the pile of my old papers, I even found a yellow-turned copy of Wilson´s "Words and Music" soundtrack catalogue. As this must date back to the turn of the 1960-70s, all the titles and prices of the vinyls have been typewritten down by Wilson himself. There are some twenty pages in the paper with hundreds of soundtracks, so it must have been some tedious job to put this paper out regularly.
Wilson mainly sold American released soundtracks, so I bought my Morricones and other Italian ones from a Bologna-based dealer named "Bongiovanni".
One of the best bargains from Wilson was a bootleg copy of Morricone´s "When Women had Tails", which had a good sound quality and was reasonably priced. It´s still in my record shelf.
As you say you met Wilson twice, and he was selling his record stock, I presume he was retiring by then, and maybe deceased now?
Regards,
Risto
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Jun 23, 2015 - 5:04 AM
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kjoseb
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I think the two times I met Wilson he was yet very active in acquiring stock for his business (when I talked with him in NYC in the late 1970s or early 198s) and in the second instance at the hotel where there were lots of vendors selling LPs, among them Wilson with boxes and boxes of sealed soundtracks or used soundtracks. After that I had no contact with him. I think, from searches I've done on the Internet, that he may have passed away by now. I also on a few occasions acquired Morricone albums from Bongiovanni but most of the Morricone Italian LP collection that I had acquired was obtained through trades with several Italian collectors, notably Enco Cocumarolo (Milan) and Massimo Cardinaletti (Fabriano). Best, Kerry (and thanks for your reply)
Kerry,
browsing now thru the pile of my old papers, I even found a yellow-turned copy of Wilson´s "Words and Music" soundtrack catalogue. As this must date back to the turn of the 1960-70s, all the titles and prices of the vinyls have been typewritten down by Wilson himself. There are some twenty pages in the paper with hundreds of soundtracks, so it must have been some tedious job to put this paper out regularly.
Wilson mainly sold American released soundtracks, so I bought my Morricones and other Italian ones from a Bologna-based dealer named "Bongiovanni".
One of the best bargains from Wilson was a bootleg copy of Morricone´s "When Women had Tails", which had a good sound quality and was reasonably priced. It´s still in my record shelf.
As you say you met Wilson twice, and he was selling his record stock, I presume he was retiring by then, and maybe deceased now?
Regards,
Risto
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Jun 23, 2015 - 5:04 AM
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kjoseb
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I think the two times I met Wilson he was yet very active in acquiring stock for his business (when I talked with him in NYC in the late 1970s or early 198s) and in the second instance at the hotel where there were lots of vendors selling LPs, among them Wilson with boxes and boxes of sealed soundtracks or used soundtracks. After that I had no contact with him. I think, from searches I've done on the Internet, that he may have passed away by now. I also on a few occasions acquired Morricone albums from Bongiovanni but most of the Morricone Italian LP collection that I had acquired was obtained through trades with several Italian collectors, notably Enco Cocumarolo (Milan) and Massimo Cardinaletti (Fabriano). Best, Kerry (and thanks for your reply)
Kerry,
browsing now thru the pile of my old papers, I even found a yellow-turned copy of Wilson´s "Words and Music" soundtrack catalogue. As this must date back to the turn of the 1960-70s, all the titles and prices of the vinyls have been typewritten down by Wilson himself. There are some twenty pages in the paper with hundreds of soundtracks, so it must have been some tedious job to put this paper out regularly.
Wilson mainly sold American released soundtracks, so I bought my Morricones and other Italian ones from a Bologna-based dealer named "Bongiovanni".
One of the best bargains from Wilson was a bootleg copy of Morricone´s "When Women had Tails", which had a good sound quality and was reasonably priced. It´s still in my record shelf.
As you say you met Wilson twice, and he was selling his record stock, I presume he was retiring by then, and maybe deceased now?
Regards,
Risto
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Jun 23, 2015 - 5:07 AM
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kjoseb
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Hi Risto,
Might it be possible for you to scan and email to me an image of the first page of the "Words and Music" soundtrack catalogue that you mentioned yet having a copy? My email is kjbyrnes @ erols dot com - I've been working on a memoir covering different aspects of my life and possibly could include that first page (of "Words and Music" soundtrack catalogue as a visual. Thanks, Kerry
Kerry,
browsing now thru the pile of my old papers, I even found a yellow-turned copy of Wilson´s "Words and Music" soundtrack catalogue. As this must date back to the turn of the 1960-70s, all the titles and prices of the vinyls have been typewritten down by Wilson himself. There are some twenty pages in the paper with hundreds of soundtracks, so it must have been some tedious job to put this paper out regularly.
Wilson mainly sold American released soundtracks, so I bought my Morricones and other Italian ones from a Bologna-based dealer named "Bongiovanni".
One of the best bargains from Wilson was a bootleg copy of Morricone´s "When Women had Tails", which had a good sound quality and was reasonably priced. It´s still in my record shelf.
As you say you met Wilson twice, and he was selling his record stock, I presume he was retiring by then, and maybe deceased now?
Regards,
Risto
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Hi again,
Yes, I will scan and email the front page of "Words & Music" , plus another one from the inside. As my home scanner is out of order at the moment, I will do this on next week´s Monday or Tuesday, when I´m back at work at the office.
Looking at the catalogue, the prices Wilson asked for his records seem quite reasonable now. As a youngster of barely 18 years old, had to grab all the little money I could get to buy them...And the whole process of mailing orders by letter and sending personal money checks in envelopes seems quite out-of-date now, at the time of the internet and webshopping!
Risto
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