Wow! I have the website set up - please visit www.toms78s.com for listings of our albums and music. I will be posting here with more conversational information.
Sunday, May 15, 2022
Sunday, December 19, 2021
Payment Policy
Payment Policy
PAYMENT: In the tradition of how my Dad did things, payment is accepted by check or money order. When placing an order, please send payment to:
Tom's 78s
14 Arden Way
South Yarmouth, Massachusetts 02664
Yes, that's unusual these days, isn't it? But it is a way to share the love of music by receiving your album the old fashioned way. Please make a list of the items you want and mail it with payment, including 5.95 shipping for 1-4 record albums.
Album Grading
Album Grading
Goldmine Magazine Record grading:MINT
The record itself is in brand new condition with no surface marks or deterioration in
sound quality. The cover and any extra items such as the lyric sheet, booklet or poster
are in perfect condition. Records advertised as Sealed or Unplayed should be Mint.
NEAR MINT
The record appears to have been opened for the first time. All inserts and/or materials are included. No surface noise at playback. Free of visible defects. Labels are correct in placement without marks. The cover and sleeve are free of creases, ring wear, splits. Cutouts are unacceptable.
EXCELLENT
The record shows some signs of having been played, but there is very little lessening
in sound quality. The cover and packaging might have slight wear and/or creasing.
VERY GOOD
The record has obviously been played many times, but displays no major deterioration
in sound quality, despite noticeable surface marks and the occasional light scratch.
Normal wear and tear on the cover or extra items, without any major defects, is acceptable.
GOOD
The record has been played so much that the sound quality has noticeably deteriorated,
perhaps with some distortion and mild scratches. The cover and contents suffer from
folding, scuffing of edges, spine splits, discolouration, etc.
Record Company Abbreviations
Record Company Abbreviations
Record label abbreviations
ARI: Arista
ASY: Electra
ATL: Atlantic
BUC: Buckboard / Springboard
CAP: Capital
COL: Columbia
HAR: Harmony
LIB: Liberty
MER: Mercury
MTM: Mary Tyler Moore
OVT: Ovation
PIC: Pickwick
POL: Polygram
RCA: RCA
RHI: Rhino
ROU: Rounder
UN: United Artists
VAN: Vanguard
VIR: Virgin
WAR: Warner Brothers
Hello
Hello-
"My name is Thomas J. O'Meara. This website has a list of some of my record albums. I am a music collector and have hundreds of albums and cds. I am listing some of my spare or duplicate albums for sale here. Albums will be shipped within two days of payment."
That was the text my Dad used for the original website I had set up for him. We lost my Dad in 2015, but his love of music lives on.
I am one of his daughters, and make Quilts For Veterans, as well as being a Fine Artist, weaver, crocheter, knitter, and fan of antique sewing machines, something I also shared with my father. I am selling some of my Dad's albums here. They are for your listening pleasure, and for a reminder to write to your state officials and ask them to READ THEIR NAMES, BRING THEM HOME.
Thank you for visiting
The Uniform In The Closet
One of the first things I think of when I think of my Dad is "Army". He was in Occupied Berlin during the Korean War, he drove a Jeep that had a machine gun mounted in the back, and basically was "target practice" for the Germans. He loved those Jeeps just the same. Willy's Jeeps. And he never forgot them. All of that was all over by the time I was born.
He and my mother had bought a house in very rural Connecticut. It was wonderful. "The Little House" on the end of a dead-end street, with a beautiful pond in the front, just across the road. My Dad, like my mother's father, was a printer. A compositor at the New Canaan Advertiser, but also a printer. We had our own presses in the basement, and every night I went to sleep with the sound of the press running, kachunk, cachunk, kachunk.
My father had a "fix-it" for everything. What he couldn't find to fix a part, he made. He taught us all the value of creating a solution for ourselves. I believe he knew this before the Army, but the Army and he got along just fine.
Many years later, he was working on Jeeps. He decided he needed to have a Willy's (or two). And he fixed them.
The time in between his time in the Service and when he didn't answer the phone on a Thursday in August, 2015 is filled with morals, lessons, laughs, goofy optimism. When I was little I used to follow him everywhere. He taught me how to change the spark plugs on my cars, but told me to figure it out for myself when I had to balance the dual carburetors in my MGB.
Throughout the entire life I shared with him, there was his uniform in the closet. The United States Army, for many, was a good job with regular pay, benefits, and the advantage of the GI Bill. I believe, more than that, my father had an innate sense that he needed to do his share. So he enlisted. After discharge he was in the Army Reserves for a while.
He kept his uniform. In the closet, like a, no, better than a "best suit". It had become part of the fabric of his life. It had become a partner in the walking a path where you are teaching others, such as with his four children. It became a part of his generosity, where he would help the next guy before he would keep something for himself. He would give you a ride, give you a dollar, give you a blanket, give you a way to get what he couldn't give you. But he was no pushover. He would also tell you to take a hike if you had a message or action that he felt was wrong.
I believe the uniform in the closet gave him strength. It reminded him of hardship and gain, buddies, and loss. Life and death, and choosing life.
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