3/19/2023 0 Comments Reminisce about the good old daysHe knows the record world well, having been the manager of Al Franklin’s Musical World in Hartford from 1975 to 1982. Dennis Udice, a retired musical instrument sales manager, takes advantage of that fact by selling old records on eBay. Some things do last, like enduring marriages and old records. Marshall has many fond memories, including a customer named Ginny who seemed interested in only one thing - the liner notes on jazz albums. The entire Grossman family worked at Marty’s until it closed in 1982. Talk about good timing!” Having a dad in the record business, he says, was like being a kid in a candy store, except the candy was made of vinyl. “In 1971 he opened Marty’s in Bloomfield, close to when Carole King’s ‘Tapestry’ was released. “When the store closed in 1970, my sister, mother and I begged him to chase his dream,” says his son, Marshall. One of Marty’s earliest jobs was managing the record department at E. Marty Grossman, the music lover who founded Marty’s, may personally have preferred Miles Davis’ “My Funny Valentine” over Steppenwolf’s “Born to be Wild,” but that was the great thing about records stores: they carried everything! I heard my first Steppenwolf album in a Cutler’s sound booth.” “I remember asking the owner, Jason Cutler, what was new, and usually he mentioned something that was absolutely worth buying. But it was his experience as a devoted Cutler’s customer that sparked his entrepreneurial spirit. Replay took the place of another popular New Haven destination, Festoon’s Records, which Snyder, who eventually became a recording engineer, managed for a while. “Cutler’s was a wonderful family-owned business, and the staff was incredibly knowledgeable.” “Cutler’s was my favorite record store growing up in the ’60s,” says Douglas Snyder, who in 1989 opened a used disc shop called Replay Records, still in operation today in Hamden. That doesn’t appear to have been the case at Cutler’s. Mostly they were young people who only cared about their social lives.” Dufresne, who now lives in Massachusetts, says it was probably a good thing that she knew exactly what she wanted whenever she stopped in because “from what I recall, the staff wasn’t too helpful.
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