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Fisher-Price or Sears somesuch...

...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)


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