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<p>WILKES-BARRE TWP. &#8212; Saturday was like Christmas morning for music lovers and vinyl junkies as the 12th annual Record Store Day was held at retailers across the globe, including Joe Nardone&#8217;s Gallery of Sound locations in Wilkes-Barre Township and Dickson City and Musical Energi in downtown Wilkes-Barre.</p><p>This year&#8217;s festivities took place in 1,400 independent record stores in the United States and thousands more internationally. The day, set aside to celebrate bricks-and-mortar music retailers, was conceived in 2007 and the first Record Store Day was held in April 2008.</p><p>Joe Nardone Jr., the co-owner of the Gallery of Sound stores, was on the planning committee that put Record Store Day together. This year he was on the committee that vetted the submissions and decided which records would be included.</p><p>&#8220;I think it gets bigger and better every year,&#8221; Nardone said. &#8220;We try to keep it fresh, building it up from one year to the next. There&#8217;s always that rush in the early morning, then what do you do to keep it going for the rest of the day?&#8221;</p><p>&#8220;This year we&#8217;re doing a sidewalk sale with one dollar records for the first time,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;And we have a tent set up outside with beer from the Susquehanna Brewing Company.&#8221;</p><p>As they have done in the past, the Gallery of Sound also featured DJs and live music throughout the day, and had the new releases scattered around the store like an Easter Egg hunt for vinyl collectors.</p><p>The line stretched around the side of the building when doors opened at 8 a.m., with early birds hoping to obtain limited releases from the likes of Billy Joel, Queen, Louis Armstrong, Iggy Pop, David Bowie and Prince.</p><p>About an hour later, Brian from Hazleton was roaming the aisles of the Gallery of Sound with a stack of records under his arm, still searching for more.</p><p>When asked which one he wanted the most, he replied, &#8220;Which one do you want to pick.&#8221; He said he makes it out to the record stores every year &#8220;as long as work doesn&#8217;t get in the way.&#8221;</p><p>&#8220;It&#8217;s great, our best year so far,&#8221; said Jay Notartomaso, owner of Musical Energi. &#8220;You never get everything on your list and there are definitely some records you wish you could have gotten more of, but all in all, this year was the strongest in terms of releases.&#8221;</p><p>Notartomaso, whose store was participating in its eighth or ninth Record Store Day, was turning it into a weekend-long celebration with DJs on Saturday and live bands on Sunday. He noted releases from Bob Dylan (&#8220;Blood on the Tracks - Original New York Test Pressing&#8221;)and Weezer&#8217;s &#8220;Teal&#8221; album as some of the ones that flew off the shelves early in the day.</p><p>A couple from Shamokin with a 2-year-old music lover in tow was seen getting a stack of records at the Gallery of Sound and another stack at Musical Energi.</p><p>&#8220;We have a turntable in the house and although I am not a particular fan of &#8216;Baby Shark,&#8217; now my 2-year-old son has his own record,&#8221; the proud father said, noting his wife was on the lookout for some Disney-related releases.</p><p>&#8220;We used to go to the Gallery of Sound in Hazleton, now we come up to Wilkes-Barre since it has the two stores so close, and we&#8217;ll hit another (Endless Records) in Bloomsburg on the way home.&#8221;</p><p>This year&#8217;s Record Store Day was extra special for Nardone as he was able to put out a record of his own featuring his father&#8217;s band, Joe Nardone&#8217;s All Stars, with four recordings they made in the 1960s.</p><p>&#8220;It was a lot of work, tracking down the best sounding copies of the songs, licensing the tracks and the hardest part was getting the names of all the people who were official members of the group over the years,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And it was a total surprise for my father.</p><p>&#8220;He was so happy when he got to see it (for the first time),&#8221; he continued. &#8220;So all the work was worth it. I did it as a tribute to him.&#8221;</p><style>
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<div class="neCaption">Joe Nardone Jr. gets ready to open up the store a few minutes past 8 a.m. Saturday morning to hundreds of music enthusiasts hoping to get their hands on some rare vinyl. </div></div><div class="metaInfo"><photo0>https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/web1_ttl041419recordstoreday-1.jpg</photo0><caption0>Joe Nardone Jr. gets ready to open up the store a few minutes past 8 a.m. Saturday morning to hundreds of music enthusiasts hoping to get their hands on some rare vinyl. </caption0><photoCredit0>Amanda Hrycyna | For Times Leader </photoCredit0></div><div class="neFile"><img class="neImage" src="https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/web1_ttl041419recordstoreday-2.jpg">
<div class="neCaption">A large crowd gathers at Gallery of Sound in Wilkes-Barre Township Saturday morning for Record Store Day. People had been camped out since 4 a.m. and the crowd wrapped around the building. </div></div><div class="metaInfo"><photo1>https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/web1_ttl041419recordstoreday-2.jpg</photo1><caption1>A large crowd gathers at Gallery of Sound in Wilkes-Barre Township Saturday morning for Record Store Day. People had been camped out since 4 a.m. and the crowd wrapped around the building. </caption1><photoCredit1>Amanda Hrycyna | For Times Leader </photoCredit1></div><div class="neFile"><img class="neImage" src="https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/web1_ttl041419recordstoreday-4.jpg">
<div class="neCaption">Debbie Cislo of Exeter got to Gallery of Sound at 7 a.m. to find a special release of the live single &#8220;She&#8217;s a Rainbow&#8221; for her daughter who lives in Philadelphia.  </div></div><div class="metaInfo"><photo2>https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/web1_ttl041419recordstoreday-4.jpg</photo2><caption2>Debbie Cislo of Exeter got to Gallery of Sound at 7 a.m. to find a special release of the live single &#8220;She&#8217;s a Rainbow&#8221; for her daughter who lives in Philadelphia.  </caption2><photoCredit2>Amanda Hrycyna | For Times Leader </photoCredit2></div><div class="neFile"><img class="neImage" src="https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/web1_ttl041419recordstoreday-3.jpg">
<div class="neCaption">Joe Nardone Jr. opens up the store a few minutes past 8 a.m. Saturday morning as hundreds of music enthusiasts gather to get their hands on some rare vinyl released in limited pressings for Record Store Day.	 </div></div><div class="metaInfo"><photo3>https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/web1_ttl041419recordstoreday-3.jpg</photo3><caption3>Joe Nardone Jr. opens up the store a few minutes past 8 a.m. Saturday morning as hundreds of music enthusiasts gather to get their hands on some rare vinyl released in limited pressings for Record Store Day.	 </caption3><photoCredit3>Amanda Hrycyna | For Times Leader </photoCredit3></div><div class="neFile"><img class="neImage" src="https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/web1_ttl041419recordstoreday-8.jpg">
<div class="neCaption">Michael Grey of Hawley looks through different titles of records Saturday morning at Gallery of Sound. </div></div><div class="metaInfo"><photo4>https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/web1_ttl041419recordstoreday-8.jpg</photo4><caption4>Michael Grey of Hawley looks through different titles of records Saturday morning at Gallery of Sound. </caption4><photoCredit4>Amanda Hrycyna | For Times Leader </photoCredit4></div><div class="neFile"><img class="neImage" src="https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/web1_ttl041419recordstoreday-10.jpg">
<div class="neCaption">Victoria Rendina of Larksville looks at different records Saturday morning at Gallery of Sound in Wilkes-Barre Township. </div></div><div class="metaInfo"><photo5>https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/web1_ttl041419recordstoreday-10.jpg</photo5><caption5>Victoria Rendina of Larksville looks at different records Saturday morning at Gallery of Sound in Wilkes-Barre Township. </caption5><photoCredit5>Amanda Hrycyna | For Times Leader </photoCredit5></div><div class="neFile"><img class="neImage" src="https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/web1_ttl041419recordstoreday-5.jpg">
<div class="neCaption">Mark Collier of Berwick, who camped out since 4 a.m. and has been coming to the Gallery of Sound Record Store Day for the past nine years, shops for records Saturday morning at at Gallery of Sound. </div></div><div class="metaInfo"><photo6>https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/web1_ttl041419recordstoreday-5.jpg</photo6><caption6>Mark Collier of Berwick, who camped out since 4 a.m. and has been coming to the Gallery of Sound Record Store Day for the past nine years, shops for records Saturday morning at at Gallery of Sound. </caption6><photoCredit6>Amanda Hrycyna | For Times Leader </photoCredit6></div></div>
<div class="metaInfo"><subheadMeta>Record Store Day draws crowds to Gallery of Sound, shops worldwide</subheadMeta></div><div class="metaInfo"><bylineMeta><p>By Brad Patton</p><p>For Times Leader</p></bylineMeta></div>