MEDIA, P.A. (KYW Newsradio) — Delaware County is a special place with special sounds, and workers at one record store in Media traversed the county to capture some of those most iconic sounds.
The Greatest Hits record store on South Jackson Street produced a vinyl record made up of nearly 100 tracks that are uniquely Delaware County. Shop Manager Jesse Gennett and other co-workers assembled a combination of field recordings and studio productions for the “Sounds of Delco” album.
“We wrote the tracks, we came up with the ideas. Wrote some mini scripts,” he said.
Gennett said some tracks didn’t make the cut, but those that did range from a man stuck holding the door at Wawa — “Go ahead. No you go. Somebody go. Have a good day. Go Birds.” — to ‘Patti: A Hair Salon Complaint’ — “One side is up and one side down. I don’t believe I asked for that.”
“There’s like [a] Linvilla Medley, there’s Swiss Farms, there’s some Wawa stuff. And it’s all like stuff that if you’re from here, you know about it,” said Gennett.
The “Sounds of Delco” is now available for pre-order and will be released on May 15.
