Farewell to Recordman
- Lukas Kendall
- Sep 3, 2025
- 1 min read
We are putting together the Best of FSM 35th Anniversary book and I am reaching out to contributors from days of yore.
Of course I remembered Recordman and his “friend” who so kindly chronicled his vinyl-collecting adventures, R. Mike Murray. I used to delight in his columns, and he was so generous and friendly in his correspondence and occasional calls.
I was a little worried because we hadn’t been in touch for a while, and I knew him to be an older fellow.
Sad to say, Mike recently passed—on my birthday, actually—at 82. Here is the online obituary.
Here’s a snippet of one of his early 1990s columns:
I have so many fond memories of him and his columns. He had a natural wit and made the world of vinyl collecting so fun and endearing.
Farewell to a generous and kind soul.
Thank you for a wonderful publication and for providing my father with a great circle of friends to spend his free time and collective knowledge with. He always spoke very highly of you and I am still in the process of working my way through many many many boxes of soundtracks and memorabilia. I have come across most of your paper issues and have thoroughly enjoyed reading them. My father loved any and all music (with the exception of rap and country). He collected everything from the 40's to the 80's but his real love were his soundtracks. Quite a bit of that has been passed down to myself. I only wish I had the time that he…