45’s/singles
Not having had a turntable for a long time (20+ years), we were given my mum’s old one over the Christmas period as they had invested in a new music centre/hifi.
Well - set up today, we’ve had a lovely afternoon reliving our youth of the 80’s playing our singles which were packed away in the loft. Now retrieved the albums from the garage but they’re in a sorry state so not sure if they’ll play🤔
Have to say loads of good memories, but gosh we did also buy some rubbish 😂.
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I passed on all our old LPs and singles to our son who likes to collect "vinyl" but he was not impressed with our careless garage style storage!
My collection era conatined Beatles and Leonard Cohen, to mention a couple and OH had a good Led Zeppelin LP (well at least the cover looked good.
)I had some from my parents too, all given away now and I just ask Alexa to play things I like.
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I have boxes of old LPs up in the loft - not sure if they're even playable any more. Every time LPs appear on programmes like Bargain Hunt Mrs M suggests I take them to the auction house just up the road - they do have specialist sales from time to time. A lot of them have been replaced by CD versions but I do still have a hankering to listen to some of the old stuff from time to time - would have to be when I'm in the house on my own mind you!
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Similar here, I was bought one of the stripped back vinyl players, after I used it I realised it was of its day I thought I had tinnitus, geez it was rough. Downloads on a pod or smart phone with air pods or cans just can’t be beaten for purity. I guess I’m not into nostalgia🤷🏻♂️🙁
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That's not nostalgia. Come back when you've got some shellac 78's.
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Just researched it😱, geez 1898, does CY stand for Count Yertov of Transylvania😊
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My parents still have some - most notably ‘The pub with no beer!’
They also loads of LP’s that they listen to regularly including lots of Readers Digest boxed sets 😊
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remember you can get a turntable that links to a computer and will transfer your songs to MP3 files, then fit all your LPs onto a thumb sized memory card.
Post edit like this:
Convert tracks into digital files via USB onto your PC or Mac with the included ION audio EZ conversion software
Off topic but I'm doing the same with all my old 35mm slides to jpgs.
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I wish that had been around before I sold all my 45s and LPs from the 60s and 70s.😕
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Ok confession time, what was your first 45 you bought, mine was (turning red here) metal guru by T rex
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wow this taking me back, buying a stylus for the turntable arm, remember that? There was a record shop that had listening booths, I thought myself so grown up to use them.
then cassettes came along...
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I'm more embarrassed than you. Acker Bilk's Stranger On The Shore. It cost me 6s 8d (around 34p).
The record shops with listening booths were the place to go on a Saturday afternoon.
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I remember when I started buying them they were 45p from Boots
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Showaddywaddy - Under the moon of love (2nd hand). First new one - Silver Lady, David Soul 🤭
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We used to buy ex-jukebox singles from the market in town. New ones came from the local record shop or Woolies cos they were cheaper!
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My first, I think was ‘Needles And Pins’, likewise 6s 8p.
I too built a quite sizeable LP collection. When the 80’s came I gradually built up a CD collection, often buying ones I already had on vinyl. So, the turntable was consigned to the loft. The wife wanted me to ditch all my old vinyl. I’m glad I didn’t as a couple of years ago I decided, on a whim really, to set up a new HiFi system, including getting my old (Rega) turntable upgraded. It sounds wonderful 🙂
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I should add...
I had a stack of 45’s, probably hundreds. Foolishly, I flogged all of them, around ‘70, including some that I sold to a school friend. I didn’t see him for many years, until we got reacquainted at work. In more recent times, he became ill, so I used to visit him at his home and among other things, we used to talk about music, favourite bands/albums, that kinda thing. He reminded me that he still had my old singles, and on a subsequent visit, he gave them back to me, after a gap of maybe 50 years? I treasure those, particularly so because not long after, he succumbed to his illness. He was a good friend, who I still miss.
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We've got all our 45's (from Elvis "Can't Help Falling In Love" in 1961). I too bought them when I was paid £1 for a Saturday job (in Currys when it was a small high street shop). Buying singles tailed off in the 70's and we bought albums.
We've always had a record player and I still buy Vinyl (as well as more CD's than I should admit to). Plus we've a drawer full of cassettes that are not played now (except in the Landrover)
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I bought an Elvis single, The Girl of My Best Friend when I was on a primary school holiday camp, I wasn't an Elvis fan but the spending money burnt a hole in my pocket. Later on I used to listen to radio Luxembourg on a little Sony transistor radio with an ear phone late at night and then go to the booths in a record shop to hear music I liked. It took a lot of holiday jobs to buy Beatles LPs later on.
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Don't forget your dayglo socks.
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