I found an album that isn’t on Discogs.

So far, I’ve cataloged over 1200 titles from my father’s record collection onto Discogs. All genres are represented, from obscure to commercial, rock to classical, Bob Dylan to Rolling Stones, to Charlie Parker, Allan Eager to Willie “The Lion” Smith, to Carlos Puebla to the Carter Family, to Brahms to Arvo Pärt. I’ve found lots of albums with variant covers and labels, or runout numbers (the identifying characters stamped and printed in the blank inner ring on a vinyl record) not on discogs, but never one I needed to add from scratch until now.

Discogs is an online record album database. Participants can create a detailed index of their collection. It’s very useful to collectors, and interactive, since like a similar database, Wikipedia, the information is uploaded and constantly updated by the registered users themselves. Meaning, if you’re registered, and you have a record not included in the database, you can enter the information about it yourself, and everyone seeking information on that album benefits.

Camp Laurel Springs Song Factory was released in 1981. It’s functional purpose, according to the liner notes written by actress Jane Fonda and her then-husband, the late political activist and politician Tom Hayden, was as a promotional tool to attract attendees to their non-profit summer camp, Camp Laurel Springs. The liner notes describe a “paradise”-like property in the Santa Ynez Mountains near Santa Barbara, California that two weeks every summer was home to 150 children learning about Native Indian history, alternative forms of energy, and “self-expression through a unique theatre arts program.”