My Mom & Dad got tired of listening to me whine about wanting to play rock & roll on their stereo ( a nice looking walnut veneered Zenith console.) Mom was a music snob who used her love of classical music as way to put down anyone who enjoyed "lesser" forms of music and she sure didn't want to listen to what her teenage son did. So Dad took me to some old guys house who was selling his small Zenith unit with hinged speakers and we got that along with some free Hank Williams records. I promptly recovered the speakers' grills with a suitably psychedelic paisley cloth and went out and bought the Grateful Deads', Doors, and Mothers of Inventions first albums at Kmart. I think they were about $3.50 each.
May Day May Day
Tell the Truth Which Was Your First Record Player
We all gotta start somewhere. Did you inherit some old console TV/Hi-FI or maybe a Singer portable swinger. When your sister went to college did she leave behind a Box Top Record Changer ?
The question is what record player was the first one you actually began playing records on. Which way did you discover the tactile joy of spinning those 45's and LP's
And just for fun if you can remember what was the first record you bought with your OWN money. The one you choose above a Banana Split at Woolworth's for 49 cents.
45, LP or 78 the only criteria is that it be with your own money not something your parents got you.
Here is Mine.
First Record Player
Emenee Barbie and Ken
First Record
Joey Dee and the Starlighters-Peppermint Twist-Roulette 45 rpm
First LP
Meet the Beatles- Capital Records
Happy May Day
Best Regards
Groovey Records
Listening to-
Louis Armsrtong-Rockin Chair-Basin Street Blues-St.James infirary-When It's Sleepy Time Down South - RCA Victor Gold Standard Series EPA-5000
We all gotta start somewhere. Did you inherit some old console TV/Hi-FI or maybe a Singer portable swinger. When your sister went to college did she leave behind a Box Top Record Changer ?
The question is what record player was the first one you actually began playing records on. Which way did you discover the tactile joy of spinning those 45's and LP's
And just for fun if you can remember what was the first record you bought with your OWN money. The one you choose above a Banana Split at Woolworth's for 49 cents.
45, LP or 78 the only criteria is that it be with your own money not something your parents got you.
Here is Mine.
First Record Player
Emenee Barbie and Ken
First Record
Joey Dee and the Starlighters-Peppermint Twist-Roulette 45 rpm
First LP
Meet the Beatles- Capital Records
Happy May Day
Best Regards
Groovey Records
Listening to-
Louis Armsrtong-Rockin Chair-Basin Street Blues-St.James infirary-When It's Sleepy Time Down South - RCA Victor Gold Standard Series EPA-5000