Mercury Records Collection

... somebody says, every record on earth should have equal right to be played any longer ...

PLEASE NOTE: This is NOT an official site for Mercury Record Corporation,
but just a personal site for sharing information on the web.

since May 24, 2002.

Last Updated: 06:48:30 JST, 04/30/2013

April 30, 2013

R.I.P., János Starker (July 5, 1924 - April 28, 2013)

János Starker (The Telegraph)
Janos Starker, A Master Of The Cello, Dies At 88 (npr news)

NEWEST ADDITIONS TO THIS SITE (click the cover pic for more info) you can also reach them (and many others) from the numerical lists on the left side!
Jan. 26, 2012 Jun. 22, 2010 EmArcy 16002 (78rpm) Jan. 17, 2010
Oct. 28, 2008 Jun. 19, 2007 Jun. 6, 2007 May 29, 2007 Apr. 3, 2007
Mar. 26, 2007 Mar. 24, 2007 Mar. 12, 2007 Mar. 9, 2007 Mar. 5, 2007
what was new...

Many Thanks To...

I Have To Say Thanks To The People...

• Görgen Antonsson-san, who sometimes review my site and kindly points incorrect information. He even gave me several Mercury LPs.
• barbcity-san, who kindly privided many information on albums which I didn't own. He also provided several photographs of album covers. Please take a look at his marvellous items he is selling at eBay!
• Christopher Evans-san, who also kindly provided several photographs of album covers which I still don't own yet. His Space Age Pop a go-go site is also worth investigating in detail. Great site!
• Mark Lungo-san, who helped me a lot to provide many information on the LPs I had not listed yet.
• foxworth-san, who also kindly provided scanned images of album covers which I still don't own yet.
• Rob Smith-san, who also kindly provided scanned images of album covers which I still don't own yet.
• Peter Hansson-san, who also kindly provided scanned images of album covers which I still don't own yet.
• Earl Oliver-san, who taught me the information on MG-20857 / SR-60857. which I still don't own yet.
• Brad-san, who also kindly provided scanned images of album covers which I still don't own yet.
• Tim Kays-san, who sent me detailed information on JATP albums.
• Raymond W. Morley-san, who gave me personnel information on MG-25095 and MG-20171.
• Hansen-san, who provided me an information on MG-20303.
• Jeffery Kennedy-san, who kindly let me know MG-20963 / SR-60963 which was missing on the list.
• Teja Prellwitz-san, who kindly let me know the personnel as well as master numbers of MG C-114.

• Hiroyuki Umetsu-san, who is an EmArcy collector and kindly provided me many information.
• Masaya Hasegawa-san, who also is an extraordinary EmArcy collector and provided me so many important information.
• Niizu-san, who kindly taught me the stereo number of MG-20409.

Shops I Love To Visit Often

• Disk Union Kichijoji Jazz & Classic shop, where I have got (and maybe I will) many Mercury Jazz discs :)
• RECOfan Kichijoji shop, where I found (and I hope I will) fine Mercury albums at low prices ;-P
• HaL's Record, where is located in Shinjuku, Tokyo. An invaluable Jazz-only vinyl shop.
• TOPS , a great shop full of Jazz LPs. Located near the Kawasaki station.

Second-Hand Vinyl Shops On The Web

• Ted's Record Room by Ted Foster, where I bought some Brook Benton's Mercury albums at fair price.
• Flipside Records, where I bought another Brook Benton's Mercury album: various LPs can be found here.
• Nagata's Jazz Page by Masatoshi Nagata-san, where he sells unwanted second-hand analogues. And he maintains his own Roland Kirk Discography. Worth seeing.
• Wonderyear Records, where you can find many "rare" vinyls including Mercury discs.
• Gatefold Records, where I could find hard-to-find Mercury analogues.
• WeGotRecords, where tons of nice records are always stocked.
• Weird Harold's holds various kinds of vintage LPs at fair price.
• World Wide Wax lists many many Mercury albums including rarest ones.
• Recordsbymail.com by Craig Moerer, holds over a million of vinyl phonographs.
• CyrCoMusic.com by Jeff Cyr, always stocks various vinyls from cheap ones to the rarest ones.
• All-Vinyl Records by Tony Lenz, have many interesting vinyls.
• Platterpus by Bruce Moore: I visit and buy some very often :)
• Irvington Music by Larry and Susan Gunderson, specializing in Classical LPs

Favourite Sites

• Jazz Discography Project, an awesome site, released under the GNU Free Documentation License.
• Jazz Links: Records/CD's, a great portal site to Jazz-related sites by Karl-Michael Schneider,
who is maybe the first person to kindly put the link to this site :)
• Recollections, where you can see much detailed information about Mercury labelography.
• 317X, a great site to exhibit many awesome (and somewhat funny) LP jacket covers on the web.
• Magic Colors - The Recordings of Lesley Gore, where so many variations of Lesley Gore's Mercury LPs and 45s are presented with scanned images of labels. A very cool site.
• We Love Classical LPs (only in Japanese), who loves vinyls and jacket covers madly, as we do :)
• THE CLASSICAL Long Playing Records World (only in Japanese), who is also an awesome Classical music LP collector.
• Picture Records World (only in Japanese) presents a huge number of picture records and promotional records.
• Jivy Blues (only in Japanese) presents fantastic world of black music such as Jive, Jump and Blues - Great site!
• Tsukuba Hot Jazz Society (only in Japanese), a wonderful site where concentrates on Jazz 78rpm releases!
• SiteRank: Jazz Site (only in Japanese)
• Musicians-Street (only in Japanese)
• JAZZ@HOME (only in Japanese), a well-organized Jazz-related portal site.