I bought my first copy of “Purple Rain” there, and Tom Waits’ “Mule Variations,” and “Bright Size Life,” as well as every album Bill Frisell, Alison Krauss and Belá Fleck released from 1995-2014. She sold me the first jazz albums I ever bought (“Kind of Blue”, “Speak No Evil,” “The Real McCoy,” Jarrett Trio “Live at the Blue Note”), and shook her head eve ry time I came in for the latest Zorn Tzadik release. I’ll never forget the hours spent sitting one on one, listening to her stories of seeing the greats live (Sinatra, Hendrix, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Coltrane, Dylan, Buddy Rich, Miles), and how much our town had changed since she came to Main Street in 1954. So sad to say goodbye to my old friend, Sally White. A Staples High School class of 2000 graduate, he’s spent the past several years touring the world with fellow Westporter Michael Bolton. She opened our ears - and our minds and souls - to all kinds of music.Įveryone has a Sally White story.
She influenced literally tens of thousands of us. Generations of Fairfield County men and women (and teenagers) were Sally’s customers - and friends. She much preferred interacting with people, face to face.īut when the longtime, much-loved owner of Sally’s Place - and before that, manager of Klein’s record department, and Melody House worker - died of cancer yesterday at 88, every online platform was filled with memories. I thought of all that last week, when a photo of Sally surfaced on social media. Casually but insistently, she got it in our hands. She also knew what we would like, even if we didn’t know it at the time. She knew what we liked, and either had it or ordered it. Her customers were equally famous - Keith Richards and Mary Travers were regulars - but she still always had time for me. Because it was hers alone, Sally’s Place was even better than Klein’s. Later, she opened her own shop, a few yards north on Main Street. She had plenty of famous customers - Dave Brubeck and Barry Tashian, to name two. Sally ran the record department at Klein’s, the downtown department store located for decades where Banana Republic most recently was.
But I was fortunate enough to grow up knowing Sally White. But most of the songs to accompany them pop into my head fairly quickly. It takes a bit of digging to find those birthdays and historic events. Or a random connection to one of the stories in that particular Roundup. A historic happening, that day in history. It may be linked to an artist’s birthday. A little feature of “06880”‘s daily Roundup is a song (or three) at the end.
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