1 00:00:06,960 --> 00:00:10,119 Speaker 1: It's vinyls packed tight in the narrow hallways and nooks 2 00:00:10,119 --> 00:00:11,959 Speaker 1: of Richard Dyer's Cambridge apartment. 3 00:00:12,119 --> 00:00:16,360 Speaker 2: He was a serious collector of classical vinyl records, especially 4 00:00:16,440 --> 00:00:17,000 Speaker 2: vocal He. 5 00:00:17,040 --> 00:00:19,360 Speaker 1: Was the American music critic for the Boston Globe between 6 00:00:19,400 --> 00:00:21,880 Speaker 1: nineteen seventy six and two thousand and six and passed 7 00:00:22,000 --> 00:00:24,720 Speaker 1: last year. His nephew, Steven, is in charge of handling 8 00:00:24,720 --> 00:00:25,160 Speaker 1: his estate. 9 00:00:25,239 --> 00:00:27,160 Speaker 2: You know, he was a music critics, so he said 10 00:00:27,200 --> 00:00:30,840 Speaker 2: mean things about some people, but he never said an 11 00:00:31,000 --> 00:00:34,600 Speaker 2: unkind word to me, or to my wife or my 12 00:00:34,680 --> 00:00:37,640 Speaker 2: kids or anything like that. He was a wonderful guy. 13 00:00:37,840 --> 00:00:38,760 Speaker 2: Everybody loved them. 14 00:00:38,800 --> 00:00:42,080 Speaker 1: There's about twenty thousand records here. Of course, the sale 15 00:00:42,080 --> 00:00:44,240 Speaker 1: isn't going to give home to all of them. The 16 00:00:44,360 --> 00:00:47,120 Speaker 1: rest are slated to be digitized so that Richard's memory 17 00:00:47,200 --> 00:00:47,680 Speaker 1: can live on. 18 00:00:47,760 --> 00:00:51,200 Speaker 2: I had a guy come in from New York who 19 00:00:52,040 --> 00:00:54,279 Speaker 2: took a four am bus so that he could come 20 00:00:54,360 --> 00:00:56,360 Speaker 2: up here and go through the real tapes which are 21 00:00:56,400 --> 00:00:56,760 Speaker 2: in the back. 22 00:00:56,880 --> 00:00:59,160 Speaker 1: Jay will Lette, WBZ, Boston's news radio