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The "Bill Bell and his Tuba" album with the King or Martin on the cover?

Chuck

Nope, own them both and had an idle thought.

Chuck"who needs to get out more"Jackson

I would guess the one with the Martin is rarer. I bought my album new in the mid '80s and the King was on the cover by then, so I think the Martin cover had a shorter run.

Yup, the prices are getting ridiculous. I have had the "Martin" since I was 12, bought by Aunt in a record store in Utica, NY. I picked up the "King" in college in a dusty old music store in Greeley, CO for a cool $1.00. Nice to put on the turn table once in a blue moon with my "6 Fat Dutchman Play 10 Great Hits" and an old comedy album by "The Brass Band" simply called "Live" a group of nuts from CA. Anybody remember them? Poet and Peasant Overture was on it along with the two greatest lines in music.

Tuba Player to a woman in paroxisms of laughter "Really, Ma'am, it wasn't THAT funny"
Trumpet Player (directed at the same woman)" Isn't it terrible when cousins marry?"

Trumpet Player, introducing Poet and Peasant "Now we will have our Suppe of the Day. Is he still composing?"
Tuba Player- "Nope, he's decomposing"

Old jokes, but I always bellow with laughter when I hear them in that context.

Chuck"just giving more proof that he, indeed, needs to get out more"Jackson

bloke "not a collector"

I am with you on that one, Joe. I own 5 albums but count my 4,000 cd's as "work related materials". My tax guy hates me. Both of my copies get played about once, well as I said, in a Blue Moon. However, my wife still listens to ALBUMS everyday, hence the need for a turntable. One of my other albums is a mint copy of the original NY Brass Quintet with Bill Bell. I have a copy of the one that has everyone staring at a broadly smiling Bill Bell. Urban Legend, via a story Jack Robinson told to me, was that Bell had just laid a MONUMENTAL fart that could only have smelled like a small farm animal crawled up his *** and died judging by the look on everyones face. Pretty good album, too.

Chuck

Any other extant recordings of Bill Bell that you all know of? Are any available on CD?

Eric "last owned a turntable in 1989" L.

I've become an LP addict as of late. The color is amazing. I also have a copy of "Bill Bell and his Tuba" King Cover. I love listening to the man play anything. His tone is so pure, and vocal in quality. Plus his singing is worth the price of admission. What kind of turntable do y'all be havin'?