\u201cGreat to see you this weekend! I just wanted to drop a quick note to say thanks – and to let you know that this past BRC show was once again one of the very best record conventions I\u2019ve ever had the pleasure to attend… I can\u2019t tell you how incredibly nice it is to be at such a well put-together show; professional, accommodating in every way, and filled with friendly folks like yourself. To you, Jack and the others, thanks much for letting me be a part!!! (And, thanks for remembering my \u201cofficial\u201d membership card!)\u201d<\/p>\n
And from David who comes from Louisiana to attend the show I was told what he likes about the show is the international flavor. It’s good to see so many who come from, Europe, Britain, and Japan to buy vinyl. He says our show is one of the best and he hopes we continue to spread the word and grow.<\/p>\n
And grow we have. Last year an estimate of approximately 700 people attended the show. This year we estimate approximately 730-750 people were in attendance.
\nSomeone asked me if there was another event going on during the same time as ours due to the number of cars in the parking lot \u2013 there was not. We added 8 new lifetime members and 15 purchased one year memberships. Welcome!<\/p>\n
And let’s also thank the staff at the Gardendale Civic Center. This was our 4th year at the center and it has worked well for us. Large aisles for customers to walk through and not bump into people looking through records, a snack room, plenty of parking, an ATM machine, and a friendly staff. We look forward to continuing our ties with Gardendale.<\/p>\n
It was another great record show for BRC and we look forward to the 2018 show. Plan on being with us again and bring a friend. Next year let’s shoot for 800 in attendance. See ya there!<\/p>\n
A SWEET RIDE HEY! HAVE YOU HEARD THIS ONE?<\/p>\n “Trying To Catch A Cab In The Rain”<\/a> See ya, BIRMINGHAM RECORD COLLECTORS DEDICATED TO THE COLLECTING OF MUSIC, ITS PRESERVATION, AND LASTING FRIENDSHIP MONTHLY MEETING THIS SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 10th 2017 2:00 PM HOMEWOOD LIBRARY \u2013 1721 OXMOOR ROAD 35209 NEXT MEETING SUNDAY, OCTOBER 8th, 2017 THE SECOND SUNDAY THIS MONTH’S MEETING Our September meeting will be spent reviewing last month’s record show. We’ll want […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newletters","comments-open"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p46vzC-GI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.birminghamrecord.com\/brc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.birminghamrecord.com\/brc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.birminghamrecord.com\/brc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.birminghamrecord.com\/brc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.birminghamrecord.com\/brc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2648"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.birminghamrecord.com\/brc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2659,"href":"http:\/\/www.birminghamrecord.com\/brc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2648\/revisions\/2659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.birminghamrecord.com\/brc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.birminghamrecord.com\/brc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.birminghamrecord.com\/brc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nRestoring a car- and some memories along the way
\nHere’s an article sent to me by a BRC member. It was written by Chad Jones. It concerns BRC Music Hall of Fame member, Roscoe Robinson. Roscoe spent some time at our record show last month. If you were there I hope you got to talk to him. Hope you enjoy.![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.birminghamrecord.com\/brc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Scan_20170806-3-Copy-150x150.jpg\")
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\nLast week I was able to do something I’ve been wanting to do for a few years. One Friday afternoon in 2010, I was sitting at my computer looking at cars on Craigslist. I came across a classic 1963 Cadillac for sale in Lexington, KY. The ad had just been posted. I told my wife, Amanda, that I wanted that car. So, we jumped in the truck and headed to Lexington.
\nWhen we got there and saw the car it was just as described. It was a one-owner, all-original DeVille from California. The wife of the gentleman who had it had grown up with this car, and she inherited it when her parents passed away. The car still had the first and only 1963 black California license plates on the front and rear. So, of course, I bought the car and brought it home. I was happy with just knowing this story that came with the car. But there’s more.![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.birminghamrecord.com\/brc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Scan_20170806-Copy-2-150x150.jpg\")
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\nA few days later I was working on the radio and happened to be looking under the dash. There was a piece of paper folded up and stuck between the radio and the dash. l carefully pulled it out and unfolded it. 1t was a brittle receipt from a Buick dealer in Chicago, Ill. dated March 9, 1963. The name on it was Roscoe Robinson.
\nAt this point I was intrigued. The last name of the original owners was Dean, and the car was from California. Why was there a receipt with Roscoe’s name on it in the dash! It didn’t take much research to find out that Roscoe Robinson was a famous musician in the ’40s, ’50s and ’60s and lived in Chicago. The address on the receipt placed Roscoe’s home address within just a few miles of three major record labels from the ’50s and ’60s. One of them was Chess Records.
\nLots more searching turned up information that Roscoe had several hits and sang with Sam Cooke, among other artists. What I could not find was how to get in touch with Roscoe. So, 1 kind of forgot about the mysterious paper for several years, but then one day I was in the garage admiring the Cadillac when I got the urge again to locate Roscoe. Six years had passed since the last time I looked online for him. With the vast amount of information now on the Internet, I was able to find several Roscoe Robinsons living in the U.S.
\nI knew at this point that he lives in Birmingham. The White Pages on line actually, had a phone number for an 88-year-old Roscoe Robinson living right here. I called the number, and voice mail picked up. I didn’t leave a message. An hour later, my phone rang, and it was the number I had called. After I said hello, an older voice on the phone said, “I missed a call from this number.” “Is this Roscoe Robinson the musician?” I asked. “Yes, it is,” he said, happily. I told him this was going to be a strange question, but I wondered if he had lived at 1269 Cabrini Street in Chicago in 1963. Hesitantly, he said yes. I then asked if he owned a red 1963 Cadillac. I was excited to hear him say “yes” again. 1 told him it was sitting in my garage, I thought he was going to jump through the phone. He was so excited and asked many questions about the car.
\nWe talked for a while and decided that we had to meet at some point. After a couple months and several phone calls with Roscoe, 1 was able to take the car to Birmingham, and meet him. The first night I met Roscoe, he took me to dinner. He told me many stories about the car. It was his first car, and Leonard Chess of Chess Records bought it for him. Not only was this Roscoe’s car, but many great musicians had ridden in it-including Sam Cooke, Etta James, and Muddy Waters.
\nThe next day we met Angela of Angela Karen Photography (who was there to photograph it), and Roscoe got to see his first car from 54 years ago. He was so happy. There might have been a tear or two shed between the two of us, but we’ll never admit it. Angela photographed Roscoe and the car and I even got in a couple of pictures too. I got to ride in my 1963 Cadillac with the original owner driving while we listened to one of his hit songs, “That’s Enough\u201d.<\/p>\n
\n(composer: Dan Penn)
\nIrma Thomas
\nWHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU HEARD THIS HIT?
\n“It Keeps Rainin’ “<\/a>
\n(#23 Pop #18 R&B – 1961)
\nFats Domino<\/p>\n
\nCharlie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"