The Archive Of Contemporary Music — And Its 3 Million Recordings — Is Leaving NY

The donations keep coming. Fred Patterson holds the title of head archivist — he's also the only archivist.

"We were just about caught up with our CD cataloging when we got this huge collection early last year, maybe 80 huge boxes of CDs," Patterson says. The archive once sent two semi-trailers to Boston to retrieve 150,000 LPs trapped in a condemned house that was owned by a collector named Jeep Holland. "He had a stove — the pilot light was still on — a gas stove, and he had records stored in the oven," George remembered.Johannes Eisele/AFP via Getty ImagesBob George, the founder and director of the Archive for Contemporary Music.George stores the archive's collection on 10-foot high steel shelves. Wander the rows and you'll find that, in addition to music, there are thousands of comedy albums, as well as records by ventriloquists and hypnotists.

Take Bill Adler, for example. A veteran of the record industry, Adler has been doing a Christmas mixtape for nearly 40 years. A few years ago, he wanted to include a track from a Christmas album by New Orleans clarinetist Pete Fountain, so he called up Bob George to ask if he had it in the archive.Aside from his Christmas project, Adler also worked at Def Jam at its inception and founded his own spoken word label. He says an archive of physical recordings is still important.

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