the oldest record shop in Michigan.

Meet Charles Preston Smith, better known as Reverend Charles.

- I can't believe my luck.

- [Stefanie] He's in charge of making sure the tunes keep spinning inside Dodds Record Shop, a Michigan legacy operating since 1929.

I've always loved music.

- I love records, but more the history of it.

The idea that would take me back to childhood of, oh, things were so simple.

You just put on a record and you put the headphones on and you're just in heaven.

- [Stefanie] The man in the red jacket is famously known for making musical memories for many in the West Michigan area over the last 35 years, as the front man for the band, the PotatoeBabies.

- Legend has it, when I was a child, I would roll around in the dirt while my loving mother tended to her garden and she called me her little potato baby.

I made that up, but it sounded great.

And I said that for years.

- [Stefanie] One Halloween, after running out of candy, he and a friend started passing out more of a trick than a treat: potatoes with plastic king cake dolls stuck inside.

- And one kid reached into the bag angry, looked back at his parents on the sidewalk and yelled, "They don't even have candy here.

He gave me some kind of potato baby."

And me and my buddy looked at each other.

Well, that's fantastic.

That's got to be the name of the band, the PotatoeBabies.

- [Stefanie] Then one year, he decided he wanted to play live on Record Store Day.

- So I went up the road to the old man that had been sitting downtown Grand Rapids for 65 years, Mr.

Dodds, and said, "Yeah, I set up a band on your sidewalk.

Could I plug this extension cord in?"

He's like, "I don't care."

So I plugged in the extension cord.

We had music play on the sidewalk.

Turns out you need a permit.

Police came.

And well, I did it again the next year.

And again, he said, "What's all the commotion?"

I said, "It's Record Store Day."

And he looked at me and said, "It's been Record Store Day here every day for the last 65 years."

I was like, "Oh, that is the coolest thing.

Okay."

Next year, we're climbing up on his roof.

When that was done, the family called me and said, "Are you the young man that keeps climbing up on my dad's roof?

He's getting old.

You should buy the store."

- [Stefanie] What started as Cole's Records in 1929 morphed into a Dodds family musical mission in several different West Michigan locations until 2012, when Reverend Charles took over, moving to where it is today on the west side of Grand Rapids.

- Well, holy smokes.

You know, we're measuring and we're tagging, measuring, tagging in those boxes over there in this with CDs, cassettes and vinyl.

About 100,000 pieces.

Where we're standing now, this has morphed probably two times, maybe three times in the last 10 years where I'll bring stuff in, stuff will go out, stuff will sell.

Someone will sell me a collection.

Someone would donate.

I will accept anything because there'll be that one gem that you don't know is in that pile of 200 records that you can tell nobody's going to want any of this.

And then there's this one that is like my childhood.

Even if it won't play, we're hanging that on the wall or the ceiling.

- [Stefanie] Dodds Record Shop, which is only open on Saturdays, has tacked on a new title to its original name, Reverend Charles' Museum of Music and Memorabilia.

From floor to ceiling and nearly every extra space of the walls, you'll find things you didn't even know you were looking for.

- The awesomeness of the physical media.

And I try to portray the story behind it all.

So I would say 9 out of 10 items in my store are something that I would either have a memory of or a story or have heard something about.

I want to share with them the importance of the history of it all.

It is funny to see somebody for the first time not be able to pick a track and realize that I have to sit the needle down and pick it up and just drop it and let it bounce a couple of times.

Well, what is that?

Well, you kind of landed on track three.

You know, let's move it a little more careful next time.

- [Stefanie] While it may not be a carefully curated music library in a traditional sense, there is a method to this madness.

- I think people are realizing with this resurgence of records that they're not necessarily going to be like click, click online that you can do.

But you have to take the time to dig, and from the beginning, because I was both a little bit lazy and I couldn't wrap my head around A to Z.

- [Stefanie] The Record Store Day tradition continues.

Something has become a community celebration in the form of a small but mighty and memorable parade on Bridge Street.

- So music is a celebration and how you celebrate it is important and it can be a million different ways how you celebrate music.

It could be privately and you don't ever even go out into a store.

You can just stay home and do it.

You could just come just for the celebration and not buy a record.

You want to be around it, around the people.

It all is just a spectacle.