Aaaah - memories

[Anonymous]

In recent years I've got very lazy about playing music - I have tended just to play the nearest CD without much thought to content.
But I decided a day or two ago that my old LP's have sat gathering dust in the cupboard for long enough. So I dug out my old (rather good) turntable, and started playing some them. It's one of those wonderful nostalgic moments, hearing stuff like Elton John's "Tumbleweed Connection", ELO's "Out of the Blue", The Beatles' "Sargeant Pepper", and Steve Winwood's "Talking Back to the Night" for the first time in decades. Actually I'd forgotten just how many LP's I have got. So this gig should last me for months!

The only problem is that I can no longer play my 78's - such as Elvis Presley's "Hound Dog" (the first record I ever bought), because the turntable only has 33 and 45 settings.

As you can see, I'm not a highbrow!

Anyone else got any tasty old vinyl?

 

[Anonymous]

I have a few old 78s by the Inkspots acquired from jumble sales and the like, but nothing to play them on!

My mother has a record player (her 16th birthday present, I believe) that plays 78s, 45s, 33s, and 16s!

As a 'yoof' I enjoyed playing friends' Witney Houston records and making her sound more like Luther Vandross or even a humpback whale! Childish but somewhat satisfying!

 

[Anonymous]

I think that's a terrible insult to humpback whales!

 

[Anonymous]

CHERRY WAINER and that 'Itchy Twitchy Feeling' ?

Gulp!

Grimmers

 

[Anonymous]

Nope - full marks, Grimmers. You've got one up on me there.

I remember Sheb Woolley and "The Purple People Eater"; I remember Tommy Steele and "The Li'l White Bull"; I even remember Charley Drake and "Splish Splash I was Takin' a Bath".

But Cherry Wainer? Who the hell was she?

 

[Anonymous]

Bertice Reading,
Marty Wilde,
Ronnie Carroll,
The Dallas Boys,
Cherry Wainer,
John Barry Seven,
Lord Rockingham's XI,
The Vernons Girls,
Red Price
and introducing:
Cliff Richard & The Drifters

And best of all (?) 'Donald Peers & Alan Breeze on the Billy Cotton show'.

('You' think 'your' old!)

Grimmers

 

[Anonymous]

Try recycle.co.uk - there are groups all round the country (the Tyneside one is called "toon" :-( )
I think they are all Yahoo groups but you can offer and get loads of stuff. I've got rid of ladders, ceramic tiles, magazines, desk, cupboard - it's great and saves filling the landfill sites etc.
All has to be free though.

So you could ask for a 78rpm record player and the chances are someone will think "I've got that old one in the loft, they could have it".

now how do you put a link on here .... ah, ha....



http://uk.freecycle.org/groups/

 

[Anonymous]

car boot sales are a good source of record players thet'll play 78's. only problem is finding styluses for them - they've gotten really pricey.
Himself has a collection of interesting 78's bought mainly to digitise, but is having real trouble getting a record player with good enough output, a gentle stylus, and the ability to play 78s.

 

[Anonymous]

You need to use fiibre needles not steel - and where do you get those from? A time machine most likely....

 

[Anonymous]

David, if you'd like to send a blank e.mail to this address, I may have a surprise for you. (and it won't cost you anything)

geoffpay@hotmail.com

Cheers,

Geoff

 

[Anonymous]

How about a nice Dansette? Does he remember those? They were also available in a radiogram version!

 

[Anonymous]

we have one! <IMG SRC="http://www.periodproperty.co.uk/discussing/smileys/smile.gif" BORDER=0 ALT=""> and a dansette branded portable radio...

 

[Anonymous]

In two-tone beige and red genuine leatherette, I hope? With the Autochange mechanism that allowed you to stack several records on it and have them played one after another?

The girl next door - Margaret Johnston - used to have one. She was always borrowing my records and returning them with scratches all over them. But with her figure, she could get away with it!

Aaaah - memories.

 

[Anonymous]

I was doing this only the other day. I finally got around to setting up my HiFi after moving.
My music is a little different though, David Bowie, Judie Tzuke, Rickie Lee Jones, Pat Benatar, Randy Crawford........

It's nice not having any near neighbours, you can play it as loud as you like <IMG SRC="http://www.periodproperty.co.uk/discussing/smileys/smile.gif" BORDER=0 ALT="">

 

[Anonymous]

I've just bought myself a new turntable and a Mini hifi to go with it. It's a Teac and has a usb socket on the front. It will digitise anything it's playing - digital radio, cd's and vinyl and store it as an mp3 or wmv onto an attached hard drive or pen drive etc - and play pack from them too. Much easier than fiddling about with a computer and good enough quality for most things.
It's called the TEAC CRH-255.

My records consist mainly of early James Brown and Hammond Organ funk but I do like to put on 'Switzerland - Happy Land' for a bit of yodelling every now and again.