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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

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krusty2k
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My first was a "Close-N-Play" circa 1968, I was around five years old. Parents used to take me to Woolworths to buy 45's at three for a dime. I picked out the ones with the pretty lablels. The start of a life-long obsession with vinyl, I guess...
dopogue
1,773 posts
 
It was sometime in the mid 1940s. A portable (in the sense that you could lift it), self-contained walnut-veneered record player/speaker/amp with a hinged top. I think the brand name was Silverline, or Silver-something. Played 78s, since that was the only speed at the time, and you needed to put the lid down so you could hear more music than needle noise. Cactus and thorn "needles" reduced the noise somewhat, compared to the steel ones. Among the first records were some jazz piano discs by Johnny Guarnieri. I'm still playing these on an Empire 298 reserved strictly for 78s, and amazingly they don't sound bad at all. Dave
greenp3
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My parents bought a big Montgomery Wards console with auto changer, 8-track & AM/FM. My older brother (RIP) raised me on the Beatles, Average White Band, Tower of Power, amongst other 'brass' outfits, and oddly enough Kraftwerk. I think some of my first records were Disney Jungle Book, the Brady Bunch, and Donny Osmond (8-track)
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jond
5,664 posts
 
I was maybe 7-8 years old in 1976-7 with a record player with a built in speaker, model unkown. I just remember playing Carole King's Tapestry over and over and jumping around my room with my little 3 year old brother. Good times!
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marakanetz
5,473 posts
 
When I was 5...6 as far as my memory goes down the age I had a German mechanical gromophone to spin 78's but soon without realizing what this thing could worth now he..he.. I took it appart with no possibility to put it back together...:-)
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