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In Reply to: RE: Ultra-Rare Russ Garcia Space Music "Fantastica" LP sold to benefit a Community Library posted by orthophonic on May 21, 2015 at 11:23:51
This is the first stereo copy I have seen. Not that I am Michael Fremer, of course. Many of the "Recommended LP List" items I have run across have been the mono versions. Either because they were cheaper or people thought they could not hear the difference.
The recent donation this item came from had several RCA LPs such as Dick Shory's "Supercussion" and "Ga'ité Parisienne" and the Heifetz Munch BSO Mendelssohn, that are in the mono release. So they are one dollar records at best, and not $20 or more.
The Garcia Fantastica in now bid in at $33.33 and it has had 240 page views and 18 Watchers are on it, so, I am confident it will hit $50, and hopeful that it will go for more.
ATB,
John
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Checking popsike, it looks like it sells for an average price of $48, with better condition copies going for more, of course. Yours could easily fetch over $50 imo.
As was explained in the museum exhibit, this was a genre inspired by the early U.S. space program that began in 1958 and culminated in the moon landing in 1969. The music was often interesting, but for me it's the cover art of these LPs that is truly remarkable, and this one is a classic.
The best ones (like this one) seem to sell for real money, though I've seen lesser ones in the dollar bins.
He was a prodigy at arrangement and orchestration who first had an arrangement played by a symphony orchestra when he was 11.
He studied with Castelnuovo-Tedesco.
He filled in for an ill radio-show conductor and mightily impressed the director, an actor named Ronald Reagan. That led to much Hollywood work.
He worked on projects for Henry Mancini and Charlie Chapin, and worked on four Louis Armstrong albums including Porgy & Bess.
He did lots of work for film and television before abandoning his career to work for world peace, in the context of the Baha'i faith.
John Atkinson relied upon Garcia's arrangement and orchestration handbook when he was a working musician.
jm
Maybe not quite in the same league as Henry Mancini or Lalo Schifrin, but part of that golden age. I discovered his Fantastica album at the museum exhibit I mentioned. Great stuff, no question.
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