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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:
...and loved listening to the story of Johnny Appleseed.Also had the soundtrack for Bambi, Snow White, and some Sesame Street records.
Funny, because neither one of my parents were music-lovers. There was no stereo in the house, at least not one they listened to. I remember my father had a turntable on the bottom shelf of his credenza in the den. Some full-chassis sprung record-changer thing, I want to say DEC but that's a computer, with a broken silver aluminum tonearm. All I remember is he told me it wasn't a stereo, it was a quadrophonic system. There was this wicked amp/pre that went along with it - lots of silver knobs and four VU meters - though it, too, never saw power.
He also had this old Fisher with lots of sliding switched and what I recall now as some sort of built-in equalizer with push buttons and Fisher floorstanding speakers with that god-awful natty brown-with-goldtone-thread grille cloth.
As a teenager, I would crank The Kinks in my bedroom. My parents, especially my mother, would ask what I was listening to. When I answered The Kinks, they'd argue with me that it was the Beatles.
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- Fisher-Price or Sears somesuch... - grailer 12:28:20 09/17/06 (0)