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Mystic Night

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What to do with my accidental collection
« on: July 23, 2026, 01:00:24 PM »
Looking for some advice from the old-timers here. I'm new to this forum and have been posting a few dubs over at the Video Moods page. I knew very little about Library Music until I found this group—it's a black hole of information and I love it. But I'm an accidental collector—I didn't expect to fall into this.

I'm a writer who just released a 100-year history of WMBI and Moody Radio in Chicago (you can find it online if you poke around).

In the process of working on the book, I inherited the sound effects library of WMBI, a collection of 500+ 78 rpm records (a nearly complete set of Standard Sound Effects, lots of Speedy and Major Records, plus the nearly complete set of Video Moods).

It's like I've opened King Tut's tomb and I'm surrounded by these accidental treasures, but I don't have time to give it the attention it deserves. I collect other records on purpose—10,000 gospel 78s and LPs—that will always be my focus and main interest. So I need to find a home my library music...and I'm looking for any advice you guys might offer.

—Kevin

kablamatic

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Re: What to do with my accidental collection
« Reply #1 on: Today at 04:46:27 AM »
Hey, Kevin! If you do have any spare time to do so, maybe you can still continue to do rips of all the rest of the Video Moods 78s you have (I have at least 30 I have not heard yet on my want list). That's mainly all we've done on this forum: share digitized versions of our albums for those who have neither heard it before nor have had in their collections and discuss the music styles and composers behind the music and the labels associated with these albums. These digitized recordings of those albums can be posted in the "Vintage Library Vinyl & CDs" section. I have personally bought and ripped a few albums that have not yet been shared on this forums in recent years and have also done so to help not only myself, but others identify unknown pieces of music heard in various media (movies, TV shows, straight-to-video features, etc.)

You are welcome to post anything you have in your collection! I've also wondered if you have any of the Video Moods LP's (EALP 101-109) in addition to the 78s, because those are rare 33RPM albums to come across since there are no information about these albums, especially on Discogs. And that's another thing, too, about this forum: sharing lost library treasures that have not yet surfaced on the internet. I'm pretty sure sound effects records/CD's have been shared on this forum as well (i.e., Robert Hall Productions), so maybe you can also share your Standard and Major Sound effects records here, too, if you'd like.

Internet Archive is another great place to share digital recordings and images of 78RPM library records for posterity. There's a lot of postings of library music from such labels as De Wolfe, Conroy, Impress, JW Theme Music, and Southern Library of Recorded Music, in regards to 78s.

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Re: What to do with my accidental collection
« Reply #2 on: Today at 03:41:01 PM »
As one of the forum's (if not THE forum's largest) largest sound effect enthusiasts, I'd absolutely be interested in hearing those Speedy discs, definitely one of the rarer of the 78 RPM SFX libraries unlike Standard or Major, which have a large chunk of their SFX records available on the Internet Archive.