Just before corona, I heard that my local record dealer had bought what was left in the basement of the late Pierre Pletinckx's wife, who had passed away a few months earlier. Pierre was a producer who worked closely with Janko Nilovic, Rene Costy, and others. He was also the man who was the big boss of Selection Records...
The basement was crammed with thousands of records, including many library records. He brought them all to the store, and I had the privilege of looking at them first. Montparnasse, Sonoton, Charles Talar, Selection Records, some Italian stuff and a lot of other things were presented ... and also almost everything from Media Music (doubles and triples) ...
That’s where I bought almost every Media Music in the catalog, at cheap prices, and most were still wrapped and sealed. I will never forget that he first said to me, 'I found a number of records you might be interested in,' and suddenly one of the two banana boxes full of only Media Music releases appeared in front of me (see photo). He knew I had (and still have) a great love for library records, so to him, I was the right person in the right place at the right time.
Later I heard that the basement was already cleared out partial, with all the heavy Italian stuff being sold years earlier (like Alessandroni, Umiliani, Tomassi, ...), but hey, I can't complain!
