3000 Vinyls of Bill Lane's collection '50s -'80s 65% are Jazz

The “Bill Lane Album Collection" consists of over 3000 albums. The list contains 33 1/3 rpm vinyl albums and there are additional 78 rpm and 12" disco albums. The recordings consist of Pop, R & B, Musical Theater, high quality Classical boxed sets and, for the most part, Jazz. This collection sports Bill Lane's tremendous love for a diversity of music, which he expressed throughout his career. This collection was appraised in 1996 for $25,000 buy a record resale company in the LA area.

I am just listing the albums for sale for the family. I have a computer business and buy, sell and fix computers. I also do Ebay so they picked me to find potential buyers for the collection. I have the list of these vinyls on an Excel spread sheet. If you don't have Excel then you can download an Excel Viewer from Microsoft free of charge to see Excel formatted documents. Some email programs will just open the attached document by hitting View Attachment though. Let me know if you want the list. I will email you the list. It is about 70 pages. I want you to email me back at [email protected] because that is where I have the documentation for the collection. I went thru the list personally and counted 427 albums that are dated from the '50s & '60s. They are probably 1st edition presses. Some are not dated so there are others that are from those years as well. They were stored in a storage facility for 8 years until recently. They are now stored in a new garage.

The original owner is Bill Lane. Or William Clay Lane who passed away June 21, 1995. This guy was a disk jockey and started a company called World News Syndicate, Ltd in Hollywood. He was an entertainment journalist and critic. he started his career in the early 1940's on WHBQ radio in Memphis, TN.

He was an editor, he sold scripts and he was a writer of course.

He was also a political reporter for the Los Angeles Sentinel. He was the Labor and Industry Chairman of the Hollywood/Beverly Hills Branch of the NAACP. He later became the President of that branch of the NAACP.

He had a show called “Bill Lane in Hollywood". He interviewed persons in all social Strata one of which was Billy Graham to Kings, Mayors and Governors. He toured as a correspondent with four US Presidents.

He wrote screen plays, books and received a variety of journalism awards and commendations. Bill was Motown's first publicity man as well.

All of the albums are in boxes. They are not in sleeved containers. They were stored in a storage facility for 8 years until recently. They are now in my mother's new garage. Many of the albums were “DJ copies - not for sale" some don't say this wording on it, and some were played only once for samplings. You will notice that there are a lot of sealed albums as well. The value of these albums should be compared utilizing the “Goldmine Record Album Price Guide".

Please use [email protected] to reply to me. I will keep all interested parties listed there in my address book.