“My first part-time job was working as a delivery boy for Pasteur Pharmacy in New York City. With my first paycheck, I remember going to King Karol Records which was on 42nd Street off 6th Avenue and purchasing three albums that day.”
“The first was The Small Faces Ogdens’ Nut Gone Flake on Immediate Records; the second was Amen Corner Round Amen Corner released on Deram through London Records, and the third was The Easybeats Falling Off The Edge Of The World on United Artists Records. If you don’t already know, I am a major Anglophile.
Buying them with money I earned was a new experience, but finding and buying those three albums on the same day was a magical experience that I still remember today. I still own and play all three of those treasured albums.
That Ogdens Nut Gone Flake was even released in America in the same packaging as the UK was amazing. I’m not sure what its monetary value is, but occasionally I still take the album off the shelf and open up the circular packaging to experience the initial magic I felt the day I bought it.
Co-hosting Atlantic Tunnel on East Village Radio every Tuesday, 12-2 p.m. ET, where we have two turntables, I get to share my vast vinyl record collection with our listeners.”
—Edward Rogers
Edward Rogers’ Glass Marbles is in stores now via Zip Records—on vinyl.
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Edward Rogers Live:
5/23 – HiFi, NYC with Simon Love
6/11 – City Winery, NYC opening for Ian Hunter
