I had collected a wide variety of music, focusing exclusively on positive music, from both the classical and popular/folk genres, including jazz, gospel, country, R&B and world music. I accumulated over a ten-year period, thousands of CDs, cassette tapes and records, participating in online auctions and visiting record shows, flea markets and the homes of collectors, some of which were in other states.

For one year, 2007, Mary Ellen and I initiated a scanning and photographing project, hiring two employees and renting a space. While I was at home digitizing cds and cassettes, records were digitized in the rented space using two digitally connected turntables, both at the same time time.

In 2022, we donated the popular music in our record collection to the Center for Popular Music in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, to help support their efforts and to provide a future home for our large, valuable collection.