{"id":18655,"date":"2015-04-30T06:02:31","date_gmt":"2015-04-30T10:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=18655"},"modified":"2019-11-26T07:13:26","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T12:13:26","slug":"whats-better-than-roses-on-your-piano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2015\/04\/30\/whats-better-than-roses-on-your-piano\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s Better than Roses on Your Piano?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2015\/04\/30\/whats-better-than-roses-on-your-piano\/f-and-t-det\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-18658\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"18658\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2015\/04\/30\/whats-better-than-roses-on-your-piano\/f-and-t-det\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/f-and-t-det.jpg?fit=640%2C453&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"640,453\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;Copyright 2006&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"f-and-t-det\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/f-and-t-det.jpg?fit=640%2C453&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18658\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/f-and-t-det.jpg?resize=640%2C453&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"f-and-t-det\" width=\"640\" height=\"453\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/f-and-t-det.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/f-and-t-det.jpg?resize=300%2C212&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><!--more-->More vintage vinyl from a huge stash of dusty <em>Long Playing<\/em> albums found in an unused darkroom at a Philadelphia-area printer. Back before MP3files and internet radio stations custom-tailored to taste, guys at this commercial printer would spin records while they worked. It&#8217;s an eclectic mix, and I have a <em>feeling<\/em> that the fellows engaged in what I call <em>Remainder Bin Roulette<\/em> purchasing albums on impulse from the discount racks based more on price than the artist cutting the platter. Some salesman or press operator thought that the twin piano stylings of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ferrante_%26_Teicher\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><b>Arthur Ferrante<\/b> and <b>Louis Teicher<\/b><\/a> would be perfect for the shop so this musical collection migrated from the shelves of either an <em>E.J. Korvettes<\/em> or a <em>J.M. Fields <\/em>to the musical library of the print shop.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"What's Better than Roses on Your Piano? by Tina &amp; Joe, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/willceau\/2263727684\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2297\/2263727684_fe724a5237_z.jpg?resize=640%2C593&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"What's Better than Roses on Your Piano?\" width=\"640\" height=\"593\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[120,3503],"tags":[1056,3526,3517,56,3511,742,336,225],"class_list":["post-18655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-curious-clutter","category-stax-o-wax","tag-1056","tag-arthur-ferrante-and-louis-teicher","tag-clutter","tag-music","tag-printer","tag-records","tag-vintage","tag-vinyl"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-4QT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":18527,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2015\/04\/16\/stax-o-wax-huge-stash-of-old-vinyl-records\/","url_meta":{"origin":18655,"position":0},"title":"Stax o&#8217; Wax &#8211; Huge Stash of Old Vinyl Records","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"April 16, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"A customized van full of happiness! At a Philadelphia area printing company, in a dusty, unused darkroom, I uncovered three large cardboard boxes filled with vintage vinyl records. Apparently the guys in the print shop would listen to them in the the days before digital music. 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This album included Rock-A-Hula Baby which was Dolores Fuller's first published song. Fuller was bad film auteur Ed Wood's ex-girlfriend and featured in a a few of his films. 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