MUSIC WAS HIS LIFE... 15,000+ Vinyl Record Collection Sat-Mon (Oct 11-13th)

Parlour Estate presents! A 15,000+ Estate Vinyl Record Collection!!!!

One of our most loyal customer passes. He always had a story and an appetite for music, but we had no idea what was waiting for us when the doors flung open to his apartment in Hollywood. A note was left to friends to call us in the event something were to happen.

This is the Collection of RICHIE. It is BIG with over 15,000 records - And it is GREAT spanning every genre and every music format - Vinyl LPs, 12"s, 45s, Cassettes, CDs (only missing the 8-Tracks, just a few of those)

3-Day Sale, Oct 11-13th. 10:30am - 6pm.

A bit about Richie below from his dearest friends..

Richie loved music. To be precise, he loved RECORDS. Growing up in Plainview,  New York, he was a fan of Murray the K, a popular Top 40 DJ. That’s when Richie started following “the charts”.  He was a lifelong subscriber to Billboard.  Often, he would make notations on each week’s list, which records he had and those needed. The goal was to have them all.

By the end of High School, his records filled the basement of his Long Island home. He made it into a forerunner to the next decade’s Discotheque.  To bring glitter to an otherwise drab space, he wrapped the rafters in aluminum foil.  He became host to parties where he was both DJ and occasional Master of Ceremonies to “Name That Tune” contests. 
For Richie it wasn’t just naming the “Tune”; it was also “Label” and “B” side.

From High School he landed a job in the mail room at CBS Records.  Commuting to Manhattan, he moved up the ranks in roles as office manager, tape librarian, and catalog supervisor.  In 1977, when a position for a new release coordinator in Los Angeles became available, Richie jumped at the chance. He would live the rest of his life in Hollywood.  His apartment was steps away from Hollywood Blvd. and Runyon Canyon.   He loved his daily canyon hikes where he was a “regular”.  When meeting tourists on The Boulevard, he would often suggest they add a Runyon Canyon hike to their vacation. 

In Los Angeles he went from CBS to other record services such as studio recording and mastering.  During this period, he had many stories of celebrity encounters. “Bette Midler bummed a cigarette from me once” he would casually mention. The last major label he worked for was Warner Bros. and Elektra/Asylum/Nonesuch. He was “in the room where it happens” when a new album would come in and the executives had to decide which cut to promote.  But the perk Richie really enjoyed was tha employee discount for the company’s entire catalog.

Richie’s foray into producing was a compilation CD titled “Club Floor Classics: the 70s”.  His love of dance music grew from disco in the 1970s to House in the 1990s.  He was a long-time VIP member of PROBE a popular, if somewhat notorious, dance club on Highland. He would spend many a long night into early morning dancing to his favorite DJs.

The “one-two punch” of file sharing and streaming hit the record business in the early 2000’s and Richie was forced into early retirement.  Still, he never stopped collecting music.  Although he had adopted the CD format when it arrived in the 1980’s (collecting thousands along the way), he never lost his love of vinyl.  He cheered its reemergence in the 2010’s.  As outlets such as Tower and Wherehouse disappeared, he found used record shops, like The Record Parlour to feed his vinyl habit.  He never stopped buying.  

Music was his life.