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August 24, 2014 by tomdalzell

Jungle Music

My friend sent Gabby a draft of my posting on jungle animals on the streets of Berkeley, and asked what my friend might have in the music department to enhance the posting.  We were surprised to hear that he had very little.  This is what he had:

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Two great records, but not much.  But – we are not done.  Gabby loves a challenge.  He was in Philadelphia.  He and Young Emily were with Tavia, her mother, after the trip to Brittany and Gabby’s side-trip to Romania.  He quickly created a challenge for himself.

The goal of the challenge: to find as many record albums with “jungle” in the title as possible.

The rules of the challenge:

1) Three days to search and acquire.  One day in Philadelphia.  One day in Wilmington.  One day in Baltimore.

2) No record stores.  Junk shops and thrift shops and yard sales and flea markets only.

3) No Jungle Book albums.  Too obvious.

4) No record will be bought for more than $2.

Okay.  Fair enough.  Here is what he came up with:

5052653974035 282620_large jungle_drums Lee-Perry-And-Dub-Syndicate-Jungle-Big-Hot-Plate-Jungle-Drums-Music-And-Science-Lovers-Rock-PICTURE-SLEEVE 1318346573_aphrodite-urban-junglist-2003 artworks-000075928192-9glqup-t200x200 3c89ea1cbf00 c5d2900cc27f 8492e641c6ca Welcometothejungle sidney-bechet-jungle-drums-philips-2 Jungle_Drum_Torrini Jungle-Drums-Morton-Gould-and-His-Orch. 1c1bce97ad9ef5cc51e8c8231061916a m_ckNEu5NLdqS2RqFM5j23g 696751 wild_fantasy Various-Drum+&+Bass+Jungle+-+Drum+N+Bass+Collection+5+-+DOUBLE+LP-562140 20140718_jungle_91 13552 the-shangaans-jungle-drums-cover-columbia-promo-gecomprimeerd 51jgacVL+eL terrilynecarrington_moneyjungle_provocativeinblue afbeelding Kofi streamer 91O9JxLmOZL._SL1500_ delfi1265 perry_lee~~_blackboar_101b Duke+Ellington+-+Money+Jungle+-+LP+RECORD-468902 1373755612_TheJungleBrothersStraightOutCover a2714364839_10 lumbum_duke_junglefun_101b slp10 Eddie+C.+Campbell+-+King+Of+The+Jungle+-+LP+RECORD-552286 moulin_subr_junglerhy_101b dorge_pierr_pierredor_102b ammons_gene_junglesou_102b JungleBrothers_WhatUWaitin afrokelenky_junglefun_101b jungle_by_night jungleremix junglebroth_jbeezwitt_101b record_factory Pantera+-+Projects+In+The+Jungle+-+LP+RECORD-342510 randi_donra_jungleadv_101b zzraggajungleanthem_1_101bWell, that’s impressive.  I count 45 albums.  But – he wasn’t done.  He had a whole subsection on “jungle fever.”

telstar chakachas-jungle-fever-polydor-3 7_inch_front 251710_large 9703156 the-chakachas-jungle-fever-polydor Jungle-Fever-EP-Cover1-300x300 002abce8_medium 220px-Jungle_Fever_soundtrack 280018_large jungle-fever-the-del-fi-records-story-2cd premier AfricanBeavers.web_-500x494 chakachas~~_junglefev_101b sheba_plays_jungle_fever_ kinkina-junglefever(1987megamixes) JungleFever 2565-3173-large 2b527d8648de5f5aafb1c6f3c4a4e3a2Another 19!   In three days he found 64 jungle albums.  He spent a total of just under $97.  He took the newly assembled collection into a used record store in South Philadelphia.  He knew the guy who runs the store.  By then, he had found another 7.

19 Sierra Exif JPEG 066 111 Screen Shot 2014-08-24 at 6.17.13 AM FOUST-junglefever300 Screen Shot 2014-08-24 at 6.16.45 AMGabby sold the 71 albums for $700.  Once you figure gas and mileage and time, he made a few bucks an hour.  But there it was, collection come, collection gone.

I asked my friend what he thought of Gabby’s challenge and the 71 albums he found.

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