Sam the Record Man
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Oct 16, 2026
Tyson BridenHOST
Yeah, I was on a trip with some friends to Ottawa, and, and you asked what record stores we had.
Tyson BridenHOST
We used to have Sam the Record Man.
Tyson BridenHOST
And, and I went in and I bought that, Tallis, Billy Sheehan's, The Billy Sheehan Years, and-
Andrew EltGUEST
Yeah
Adam R. SteigertHOST
I don't even think it's there anymore.
Dominic LongoGUEST
Sam the Record Man?
Adam R. SteigertHOST
Yeah.
Dominic LongoGUEST
It's, I, yeah.
Jaymz BeeGUEST
I haven't seen any of the footage.
Mike BoonHOST
Kurt Swinghammer did this Sam the Record Man I'm pointing to right here.
Jaymz BeeGUEST
Unbelievable.
Mike BoonHOST
And beside the Much Music thing, which was a gift from David Kynes.
Ian WhiteGUEST
It's on, for those who are familiar with Toronto, it's on Ossington Street, south of Dundas, and it's one of Toronto's better record stores.
Ian WhiteGUEST
I mean, Sam the Record Man's no longer a thing, and s- there are a few other independents that I frequent, but Rotate is sort of that store that's so well-organized, it's so well put together.
Ian WhiteGUEST
Like, when I walk by in the morning, um, when I'm we- when I'm in Toronto, and I see, like, through the window what they've put out onto, like-
Mitch AndersonHOST
Yeah
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Ian WhiteGUEST
Now, granted, I was living in a different country.
Ian WhiteGUEST
You know, I was living where I am in terms of right now.
Ian WhiteGUEST
I mean, I l- I live in the US, but Toronto's, Toronto had, like, one really huge music store, uh, uh, growing up, and that was Sam the Record Man.
Ian WhiteGUEST
And the second biggest-
Ivar HamiltonHOST
So I said, "You go off and handle Supertramp and Olivia Newton-John and these other artists that I have no time for," but that was, that was one of them.
Ivar HamiltonHOST
And, uh, you know, I also, my, my time when I was at, you know, worked at Sam the Record Man, there were all these records, they just, they just played day in and day out, and then they would make you wear the T-shirt, and you'd just be like, oh, my God, I am gonna shoot myself.
Scot TurnerHOST
[laughs]
Ivar HamiltonHOST
But I will say on that t- that, that whole thing too with Physical, that kind of brought on the whole revolution, the whole sort of like, uh, video workout, uh-
Mike BoonHOST
bookstore.
Mike BoonHOST
And Sam the Record Man.
Mike BoonHOST
Sam the Record
Tyler CampbellHOST
Man.
Mike BoonHOST
And unbelievable, James Monroe.
Mike BoonHOST
Oh, yes.
Mike BoonHOST
James Monroe worked for years at Sam the Record Man, but he went on to work for Rogers as a guy you would hear on 680 News.
Cam GordonHOST
Yeah.
Mike BoonHOST
And she kicked out a song from the Blue Album.
Mike BoonHOST
And then I was... overwhelmed with memories of picking up that blue album because i heard the sweater song what did they call it undone the sweater song yeah undone and then dash there's no parentheses or something like that the end the sweater song anyway uh picking that up at sam the record man and uh loving every second of that blue album by weezer like it i loved it so much
Niko StratisGUEST
You know, we were talking about my vision of Toronto from growing up in the Yukon.
Niko StratisGUEST
And this is the one thing I never got to do is I never got to go to Sam the Record Man.
Niko StratisGUEST
And that is a record store that you knew about, right? Like we would hear about because we had two local record stores in Whitehorse.
Niko StratisGUEST
And so you sort of got, if they had it, you could get it.
Niko StratisGUEST
If not, you're out of luck.
Justice PriceADVERTISER
And
Shane HewittHOST
Like, that was the catch, right? And then the album and the music that came from it and so much more.
Shane HewittHOST
In fact, in 1991, 92, and probably 1993, if you walked into an HMV or Sam the Record Man, ANA Records, Sunrise Records, all those...
Shane HewittHOST
A brand new album, Nevermind Bar Nirvana, had been out since September 24th, 1991.
Shane HewittHOST
And it stayed so popular for so long and inspired so many other bands to success.
Brian FraserGUEST
But the tradition was that you arrived, you dumped your boxes and your suitcases and your little Seabreeze recording record player.
Brian FraserGUEST
in your room and you went down to a place called Sam the Record Man's on Yonge Street in Toronto.
Brian FraserGUEST
And it was the big record store.
Brian FraserGUEST
And in those days I was a folky and the folk music was on the fifth floor.
Mike BoonHOST
Okay, so this Blue album, which I bought because on CFNY, 102.1 The Edge, I heard Undone, the sweater song.
Mike BoonHOST
I heard it literally one time, and there was a Sam the Record Man at Jane and Bloor.
Mike BoonHOST
Do you remember this location? Jane and Bloor.
Mike BoonHOST
Jane and Bloor.
Mike BoonHOST
Yeah, I think so.
Mike BoonHOST
At Jane and Bloor, there was a Sam the Record Man.
Mike BoonHOST
And I went there because I picked up two albums.
Mike BoonHOST
I said, I need this Weezer album.
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