What was found.
CD
The Kinsey Report-Powerhouse (Charisma 1988)
The Dry Heaves-Two Honkies In A Tub
The Temptations Greatest Hits
Face To Face-Over It (EP)
Bruce Springsteen-The Wild, The Innocent And The E Street Shuffle
Mary Chapin Carpenter-Come On Come On
Chris LeDoux-Gold Buckle Dreams
Elvis Presley-Moody Blue
Page/Plant: No Quarter
Kansas-In the Spirit Of Things
Rolling Stones-Flowers
Lefty Frizzell-16 Greatest Hits
Santa Esmeralda-The Best Of
45's
A Swinging Safari-Billy Vaughn (Dot 45-16374) #13 1962
This Bitter Earth-Dinah Washington (Mercury 71635) #24 1960
Here We Go Again-Ray Charles (ABC 45-10938) #15 1967
Three Nights A Week-Fats Domino (Imperial 5687) #15 1960
Who Slapped John/Blue Jean Bop-Gene Vincent (Capitol F-3558) 1956
Some of these forty fives go back to my original collection, namely This Bitter Earth, Here We Go Again and Three Nights A Week. A Swinging Safari is muzak surf music but I always loved the beginning hook. That would later be used for an early episode of Jeopardy. This Bitter Earth might have been one of the original collection of 1964 singles that Mom might have had, but I didn't think it survived the first playing Here We Go Again was a replacement copy of the one that I bought in Waterloo around 68. Three Nights A Week was part of the original Grandma's box of 45s in Lincoln. All 45's came from The Source Book Store in downtown Davenport. They still have the majority of quality CDs on the main floor but downstairs they have actually added about 10,000 CDs in the basement of varying degree. To where the Santa Esmeralda and Left Frizzell came from. They also had the Flowers from the Stones, the first Stones LP that I bought for a quarter at a long ago forgotten Salvation Army store in Uptown Marion. I don't think Ragged Records has opened their Davenport store (sometime in April from what I have heard but Bob Harrington hasn't mentioned anything about a grand reopening.
For 13 CDs found, I'm surprised that I found that many. 8 of the 13 were under a dollar. Most were not exactly needed. The Dry Heaves I had to check out. They come across like Foo Fighters and punk rock, disposable I suppose but fun. The Page/Plant and Kinsey Report have been in my collection before. I ran into the same guy buying stacks of CDs at both Davenport Goodwill Stores, he bought mostly junk (Sugar Ray, Everclear) The Davenport Salvation Army had no 45s of note, but I donated my collection of unwanted 45s to that place. I'm not sure if the guy in charge of donations had a look of surprise or resignation, but I'm sure most, if not all will be gone the next time I return back into town. I'm not sure the reason why I bought them but I didn't have the Bruce Springsteen CD and The Kansas CD was thrown in for a quarter. The Veterans Thrift Store had The Kinsey Report and Dry Heaves for 72 cents. At least the jewel case is in good shape. Stuff Etc, had Richard and Linda Thompson's Hoky Pokey on CD for a dollar. Since I had a copy, I didn't need it.
I didn't stop at Co Op Moline. There was nothing new that I needed and I didn't think he had a good turnover of new cds the last time I was there. Books A Million still had a collection of used cds, (mostly crap) and new CD's that were half off the regular price, also mostly crap. Somehow, somebody priced a used Elastica Cd for 20 dollars! Rough Trade had reissued the CD but you can still find the CD fairly cheap.
All of the thrift stores had their vinyl picked clean. Like Iowa City, had I not gone to the Source store, this would have been another wasted trip. Next up, a return engagement to Dubuque and Maquoketa, and perhaps a good time to rid more unwanted cds.
Appendix: Maquoketa Finds/Half Price Books
Larry Norman-Shouting In The Storm
Larry Norman-White Blossoms from Black Roots
Larry Norman-Come As A Child
Tommy James-S/T
Billie Holliday-Ken Burns Jazz
Three CDs found by the Father of Christian Rock Larry Norman, Shouting In The Storm has him backed up by Beam from a 1998 Finland concert. Norman is best known for being in People! that had a hit with I Love You (the Zombies cover) and then went solo and made Just Visiting This Planet, his 1972 masterpiece for Verve/MGM. While Norman was in good health, he did release a bunch of recordings via Solid Rock, but after his passing in 2008, most of the unknown stuff went out of print. I didn't pick up the forth CD, which was remixes to Just Visiting This Planet (and perhaps I should have, if they still have it next week, maybe I will). For Christian Rock and Roll, Larry Norman was even an outlaw to the gospel music circuit, most Christian stores refused to sell his music. After hearing Just Visiting This Planet, I thought I'd be on the look out for his albums, they sell for big bucks via Amazon.
