Hello again, my imaginary friends.

Today I bring you two albums that influenced me as a wee lad. I ripped these off the original vinyl a couple of weeks ago and thought that MAYBE you all might be interested.
The first one is "Knuckles O'Toole Plays the All Time Greatest Ragtime", originally released in 1956, although this copy is a re-release from 1966, on the Grand Award label. This album is partly to blame for my interest in piano as a kid (not to mention that my dad could play and we had a real player piano), and also contributed to my obsession with ragtime as a teenager. Please excuse the pops and clicks, I didn't treat it well way back when.
http://polkadotdictator.net/kss/knuckles/The second second blast from my past is pure exotica cheese, from "Lonely Harpsichord: Rainy Night in Shangri-la". What this album MOSTLY did was to scare me, what with it's rolling thunder and dark, moody harpsichord. Haunted house central, I tells ya! Anyway, I didn't have the original copy, so I went out and bought one of the 'Bay. Lulz. Here ya go:
http://polkadotdictator.net/kss/lonelyharpsichord/I also ripped a couple of Tomita albums that I can't find on CD (at a reasonable price), but they're so badly scratched that I'm not sure I want to keep the results. Shame on me for not taking better care of my albums.
enjoy!