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Began collecting records early,

but being older than most Inmates, mine were 78s. In the late '40s, at about age 6 or so, my folks began buying me album sets and playing them for me on our console player. My favorite was "The Nutcracker Suite" by Spike Jones. I soon learned to operate the console player myself. Also had a collection of Gene Autry (of course with "Back In The Saddle Again") and "Bozo Under The Sea" plus a few others. I also remember my favorite single, "Ghost Riders In The Sky" by Vaughn Monroe, but that was only from the radio.

Then for Christmas when I was 12, I got my own record player. It was a Steelman portable (locking lid and handle) with a BSR changer and AM radio - this was 1954. This unit looked just like the one often shown in a drawing in Art Dudley's magazine, "Listener". Now I began buying 45s - Little Richard, Coasters, Del-Vikings, Gene Vincent, Elvis, Fats Domino, etc. The 78s are now lost but I have about 75 of the 45s and after cleaning them with a RCM, they sound amazingly good. By high school in the late '50s I began buying LPs. My musical tastes were changing beyond R and R so while I got Buddy Holly and The Crickets, Buddy Knox and a few others, I started buying folk such as Kingston Trio, Bud & Travis, and jazz with Brubeck, Miles, Cannonball, Jamal, etc.


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