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In Reply to: How many folks here had record players as children and what did you listen to? posted by chriss on September 17, 2006 at 07:58:03:
It seems that I always had a record player. My mother taught me how to read by holding up 45's. I would hear something on a resturant jukebox and my father would look at the record and eventually bring home the 45. The only way I could hear it at home was sit with my mother to identify it. I clearly remember Elvis, Connie Francis, and later early Motown. In Washington DC there was a record shop called Record City where Metro Center now resides. You could walk in there and there was an entire wall of just 45's alone. There was a guy there named Eddie who would play anything you wanted to hear whether you were going to buy or not. And they had everything. When my Dad would have to work on a Saturday he would leave me there all day. I was allowed three records a week as 45's were 3 for $2 then, picture sleeve or not. Every Christmas I received a new record player, a couple 45's and one or two albums.
I don't remember ever having any children's records. Washington DC had great top 40 radio. Played everything. Top 40 then as opposed to now, really had no format. It wasn't uncommon to hear Elvis, Beatles, James Brown, Motown, Memphis, you name it, on the same station. This was true up until the mid 1970's when record companies helped reformat radio and music into it's current constipated state.
I still have my 45 collection and one night a week I give up all the audiophile stuff and give them a spin on an Audio Technica Sound Burger hooked to a pair of AR Powered Partners. I think I'm like many people. Albums didn't really apply to me much until the late 1960's except for the Beatles and Stones. I love the Who but Sell Out was the first album that I could listen to all the way through without boredom setting in. I didn't really enjoy albums much unti Jimi Hendrix released Electric Ladyland. That's when the audio bug hit me too.
Thanks for a great thread!
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