The skies have gone dark over Music Country .

Since 1934 , the New Jersey record store has been selling music under one name or another.

But that run has ended, as the shop has shuttered following the recent death of its owner.

Music Country , located at 728 Anderson Ave. in Cliffside Park, calls itself “ the original mom and pop vinyl record shop ,“ owned by the same family and in operation at the same location for the better part of a century.

When it was still open, the family believed the shop to be the oldest record store in the state and thus the country. They even put it on the sign.

While the store was not the oldest in the United States, it was certainly one of the oldest.

The shop sold records — LPs, 45s and 78s — as well as cassettes and CDs, music memorabilia, guit

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