Can I have one? I can't find mine and they bring tears of nostalgia to my eyes.Charlene wrote:Most of my 45s still have the plastic adaptor dohicky in the middle.
I felt really old when I asked my daughter something about her "records" and she rolled her eyes and said, "Mom, they're CDs!"
cassette tape funerals
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I have a box lying around somewhere with about thirty C-90 tapes in it. Each tape I compiled myself for a walkman I used to wear on my way to and from work,a journey of about twenty minutes each way.I never labeled the tapes in anyway so it was pure chance what I would hear as soon as I locked the door behind me in the mornings.
I never used more than one track per artist on each tape so it was a constant parade of surprises every day.
It can be very helpful when waiting on the elevator at 5:30 a.m. to know that "everything is gonna be all right", according to Bob Marley or sometimes ,weaving through the traffic - I cycle there and back - it can be very inspirational to know " I'm goin'down the road to see Bessie.."when the Basement Tape track kicks in.....
Slan,
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I never used more than one track per artist on each tape so it was a constant parade of surprises every day.
It can be very helpful when waiting on the elevator at 5:30 a.m. to know that "everything is gonna be all right", according to Bob Marley or sometimes ,weaving through the traffic - I cycle there and back - it can be very inspirational to know " I'm goin'down the road to see Bessie.."when the Basement Tape track kicks in.....
Slan,
D.
And many a poor man that has roved,
Loved and thought himself beloved,
From a glad kindness cannot take his eyes.
W.B.Yeats
Loved and thought himself beloved,
From a glad kindness cannot take his eyes.
W.B.Yeats
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The first LP I owned was "Sesame Street Fever" - I was about 7, I think. It had Grover on the cover with a white suit in the classic disco pose. I loved that album. The second one was my sister's hand-me-down of the Bay City Rollers. I loved the song "Rock and Roll Love Letter".
The first cassette I bought was Huey Lewis and News' Sports. I had a massive crush on Huey Lewis when I was a teenager. Don't ask me why.
I also had a crush on David Hasselhoff. I obviously had no taste. I'm so embarrassed.
Beth
The first cassette I bought was Huey Lewis and News' Sports. I had a massive crush on Huey Lewis when I was a teenager. Don't ask me why.
I also had a crush on David Hasselhoff. I obviously had no taste. I'm so embarrassed.
Beth
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I have so many cassete tapes that I recorded from the radio, that I still find myself listening to them quite a bit. With the auto-reverse function on modern tape players, some of my tapes play for hours before I finally get tired of hearing the same tunes over and over.
When I was a kid, we had a large console Philco record player that would only play 78 rpm records. In high school in the 50's I first got a small record player that would play 45 rpm records. You didn't need an adapter because it had a fat spindle and would only play the small 45 rpm records, usually of only one tune per side. I remember listening to Johnnie Cash's "I walk the line" over and over. My two brothers, who shared the same small bedroom, were sick of it, I am sure. But I was the oldest, and might sometimes makes right. However, I don't take the same viewpoint when it comes to the current geopolitical situation.
When I was a kid, we had a large console Philco record player that would only play 78 rpm records. In high school in the 50's I first got a small record player that would play 45 rpm records. You didn't need an adapter because it had a fat spindle and would only play the small 45 rpm records, usually of only one tune per side. I remember listening to Johnnie Cash's "I walk the line" over and over. My two brothers, who shared the same small bedroom, were sick of it, I am sure. But I was the oldest, and might sometimes makes right. However, I don't take the same viewpoint when it comes to the current geopolitical situation.
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1st record: Huckleberry Hound, Quikdraw McGraw, Yogi Bear: "We Three Believe in Safety". Maybe. It might have been another one about "Saggy Baggy the Elephant".
1st Album: One of Herman's Hermits. The one with "Leaning on the Lampost" and "Dandy".
Childhood favorites: "Behind the Green Door", "Mockingbird Hill", "Walk in the Black Forest" and my favorite, "Snoopy vs the Red Baron". I used to run around the room acting out the song. What a nerd. :roll:
I owe my passion for military history to Snoopy!!!
1st Album: One of Herman's Hermits. The one with "Leaning on the Lampost" and "Dandy".
Childhood favorites: "Behind the Green Door", "Mockingbird Hill", "Walk in the Black Forest" and my favorite, "Snoopy vs the Red Baron". I used to run around the room acting out the song. What a nerd. :roll:
I owe my passion for military history to Snoopy!!!
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The first record I ever bought was the Beatles "brown" album. Before they signed with Capitol. It's a Vee-Jay label and worth a bunch.
I've got so many 45s it's scary. Yeh, got the adaptors too, and a turn table, and an 8 track player with a bunch of them, mostly Janis Joplin and Jethro Tull. Heck, I've even got an old Victrola in the living room, inherited from the in-laws. It was listed in a 1928 tax list we found here in the house seperately- contents of house valued at $25 - the Victrola at $15!
About 20 years ago I bought a whole box of 78s that were still in the paper wrappers- bunch of old Carter family records in that box. My favorite and the one that stays on the old crank turntable is "Old Black Joe".
I've got so many 45s it's scary. Yeh, got the adaptors too, and a turn table, and an 8 track player with a bunch of them, mostly Janis Joplin and Jethro Tull. Heck, I've even got an old Victrola in the living room, inherited from the in-laws. It was listed in a 1928 tax list we found here in the house seperately- contents of house valued at $25 - the Victrola at $15!
About 20 years ago I bought a whole box of 78s that were still in the paper wrappers- bunch of old Carter family records in that box. My favorite and the one that stays on the old crank turntable is "Old Black Joe".
"Let low-country intruder approach a cove
And eyes as gray as icicle fangs measure stranger
For size, honesty, and intent."
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And eyes as gray as icicle fangs measure stranger
For size, honesty, and intent."
John Foster West
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Herman's Hermits! Here's a ditty that'll be in your head all day long!Flyingcursor wrote:1st Album: One of Herman's Hermits.
I'm Henry the eighth I am
Henry the eighth I am, I am
I got married to the widow next door
She's been married seven times before
And every one was an Henry (Henry)
She wouldn't have a Willy or a Sam (no Sam)
I'm her eighth old man, I'm Henry
Henry the eighth I am
Second verse same as the first
Someday, everything is gonna be diff'rent
When I paint my masterpiece.
When I paint my masterpiece.
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Ah, I've heard that one sung in person... But not by Herman's Hermits.izzarina wrote:Herman's Hermits! Here's a ditty that'll be in your head all day long!
I'm Henry the eighth I am
Henry the eighth I am, I am
I got married to the widow next door
She's been married seven times before
And every one was an Henry (Henry)
She wouldn't have a Willy or a Sam (no Sam)
I'm her eighth old man, I'm Henry
Henry the eighth I am
I'm informed you have to say "Hen-er-y" though, rather than Henry, in the first few lines. And amusingly enough, last week that fact came up in my phonology class. I was hard pressed to keep from laughing..
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It is "Hen-er-y"....although I think if you are to be totally accurate, it would be " 'en-er-y"avanutria wrote:I'm informed you have to say "Hen-er-y" though, rather than Henry, in the first few lines. And amusingly enough, last week that fact came up in my phonology class. I was hard pressed to keep from laughing..
I've had that darn song in my head all day now....can't believe that I brought it up :roll:
Someday, everything is gonna be diff'rent
When I paint my masterpiece.
When I paint my masterpiece.
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izz wrote:
"I was but a twinkle in my mother's eye when they were big"
Aw, hush up, you young pup!
(and I did say I was 6!!)
It's someone's birthday here at work today. She brought in treats with "I'm 40" napkins. Most of us are over 40, some of us can't remember 40 (including the birthday girl). We're all showing everyone that we are 40 today.
No one believes us.
Missy
"I was but a twinkle in my mother's eye when they were big"
Aw, hush up, you young pup!
(and I did say I was 6!!)
It's someone's birthday here at work today. She brought in treats with "I'm 40" napkins. Most of us are over 40, some of us can't remember 40 (including the birthday girl). We're all showing everyone that we are 40 today.
No one believes us.
Missy