what happened to Larry Levan's records when he died?

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Actually, it's quite a good Bridget St. John - a collaboration with Kevin Ayers called "If You've Got Money", b/w a rare Ayers/Daevid Allen composition called "Yep".

Edwina Biglet & The Miglets, anyone? Or Dib Cochran & The Earwigs?

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 12:47 (twenty years ago) link

six months pass...

Just saw the thread, Most of Larry's records went to Danny Tenaglia. Apparently when Larry got sick, Danny paid for their storage.

Larr

― anthony larr, Thursday, 26 August 2004 18:05 (nineteen years ago) link

five months pass...

any idea when larry actually died in 1992?

― Ben Thompson, Friday, 25 February 2005 04:08 (nineteen years ago) link

November 8, 1992, according to Last Night a DJ Saved My Life (which also repeats the story about Larry selling off his records for drugs and his friends going and buying them back).

― TayBridgeCatastrophe (TayBridge), Friday, 25 February 2005 04:20 (nineteen years ago) link

(also, what an incredible resource it would be if there was some kind of library archive where DJ's could bequest their collections.....)

i don't know about library, but there's most definitely an archive, the amazing archive of contemporary music in new york. their collection is available for research and you can listen to their LPs (for a fee), but i'm pretty sure you can't take 'em out.

the country music hall of fame has a pretty amazing vinyl archive, too, though i'm not sure if they would need larry levan's records.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Friday, 25 February 2005 04:58 (nineteen years ago) link

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