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I am loving these threads of stereos and records..........thanks a mil

lets try a little survey......

How many 45rpm's have you bought with a TOP 10 song on side A....and then flip to side B, and find another great hit.....we used to call it a Double-Whammy!

we all remember LiPPs Inc. hit "Funky Town"....side A......

and on side B....."All Night Dancing"..........

hits of the 80's were great......how many weekends we spent either Rollerskating or at the Disco's......

 
45's

I have a couple hundred of them, but only bought them for the hit song on side A. Usually I found side B, I didnt like. Once in a while I get the urge and will play a stack of them on the old Magnavox console downstairs in the "Rumpus Room". Funky Town brings back bad memories of being in this nasty bar years ago outside of Charlotte NC with this "full figured" woman on stage bouncing topless to it, over and over.
 
Some 45's were re-issued with good ones on both sides.  I have replaced original 45's with re-issued ones on my jukebox whenever I come across them.  They don't always have the same artist on both sides, which is often a plus.  My re-issued copy of  Santo & Johnny's "Sleepwalk"  has The Champs' "Tequila" on the B side.  This makes more sense when you're limited to only 50 records, rather than taking up space with a forgettable Santo & Johnny number on side B.
 
45s

i used to buy a lot of 45s when i was a teenager in the '80s-mostly because they
were cheap;something Like $1.99 IIRC.At a museum i saw a vending machine from
1961 that vended 45rpm records;IIRC, the cost per record was 25 cents.I have about
50 45s-mostly early through mid-'80s rock/pop.
Anyone have one of those late-40s era small phonos that only play 45s-i think some
of those may have even been multi play changer type phonos.
 
I have a very large box of 45's that came from a radio station-they have Q burn on them-but still play.And the price was right---FREE.They were going to throw them away.Mostly 60's top forty songs.Looking for a jukebox to store and play them.45's at one time were a staple in radio stations.some of the 45's I have-its the same song on both sides-one side the song is mono-the other-stereo.The 60's were a transition for station going from mono to stereo on the FM-the Mono side was good for AM stations that of course were mono.AM stations today playing music--almost unheard of!At one time the teeny boppers listened to AM-the FM was for adult audiophiles.
 
45s-both sides good:

i checked my 45 stack(discovered i have closer to 150 45s)found 4 that i like
both sides of;The Police-wrapped around your finger B/W tea in the sahara,
Hall&Oates-adult education B/W maneater,and two by the Fixx-one thing leads to
another B/W opinions and are we ourselves B/W deeper and deeper.
The police 45 still had the 1983 price;$1.59... The newest 45 i have is from 1988
 
The Beatles 45's were often like that. You'd have a good song on both sides.
Like "I want to hold your hand" / "I saw her standing there" and "I feel fine" / "She's a Woman".

Back in 1965 45's went for .99 and LP's went for $3.98 mono, $4.98 for stereo.

At one time I had a huge collection of 45's. That's where a lot of my paper route money / high school part time job money went. But they were just another thing that got tossed when I was away at college.
 
Heh.. I managed to snag a huge box of Jukebox 45's that have been played half to death. Whenever I play them, my friends keep telling me I need a new stylus.

A lot of the 45's I have, have a great hit on one side and a serious WTF moment on the other, but on the upside, it's kind of refreshing because sometimes there's a song there that nobody really paid attention to, but it turns out that someone like Lady GaGa covered it recently and of course, as a result there's a serious O_o moment while looking at the speakers.

A friend of mine has a 45 which is stamped with a really uneven hole, so there is an incredible amount of wow. Considering that I grew up with cassette tapes and I bought most of my music on compact discs, (I was 16 when I got my first CD player, that was back in 1990) I think we're really spoiled now!
 
That Magnavox 45 player looks like it has an RCA 45 TT.My portable 45 player from RCA-the TT looks exactly like the one in the Magnavox-the "45" was an RCA innovation.Mine doesn't have a radio.
 
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I don't think I own a 45 with a good song on both sides.
Regardless, it was a gas for me and my sister to play flip-sides and laugh ourselves silly. Mom would say, "Why are you playing those wrong sides????"
A fun flip-side dud is the unintentionally funny "Mr Telephone" by Gisele Mackenzie.
 
RCA Victor sold those players to quite a few manufacturers in the day, VM made one as well. Seems like RCA came up with the 45 format in 1949 to combat Columbia's new LP record. I've got a mint RCA with a lift lid with the amp in bakelite, a bakelite player only, and a grey and coral pink plastic player with amp. Would love to get a working Magnavox with or without the radio.

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They make overhaul kits for those RCA 45 rpm players. You get new capacitors, new idler wheel and a new cartridge. I think it's about $40.00 or so.
If you look on Fleabay there are a lot of people who have bought those kits, installed them on a RCA 45 record player and are asking astronomical prices for them.
 
Love my 45s

My OM fixed jukeboxes for a living, so I got a lot of them when they were done on the box. Lots of demo records too. I have hundreds and play them all regularly. Some of mine from the 50s sound just great because I always took care of them.

As for "B" sides, some were accidental finds by DJs. "Party Lights" by Claudine Clark (1962) was one of them. The "A" side was "Disappointed", which was going nowhere on the charts, but it took off when they begain playing the flip side.

A couple we discovered on our own. The "B" of Danny and the Juniors' "At The Hop" (1958) was "Sometimes", a most excellent slow dance. Often you'd find a treasure to use just to practice dancing. The flip side to the Raindrops' "He's The Kind of Boy You Can't Forget" (1963) was "Even Though You Can't Dance (I Love You)". Great for brushing-up on The Slop, Mashed Potato, Cha-Lypso, et. al.

Contrary to popular belief, vinyl isn't final.
 
I think my first experience with the weird and wonderful world of B-sides was The Beatles' "We Can Work It Out". I remember flipping it over one day to listen to the song on the other side, which was the little ditty called "I Am the Walrus". Whoa! What the heck was that? It permanently corrupted my taste in music.
 
I have a couple hundred 45's. I have a number of them which were my mom's from the 50's that had 2 songs on each side. I have Bill Haley and the Comet's "Rock Around the Clock" and Elvis' "Jail House Rock" and You Ain't Nothing but a Hound Dog". A few years ago I bought a USB turntable and loaded a number of them to Itunes along with my 12" singles

Yes Yogitunes you gotta love roller disco. I use to go every Friday night and Sunday. My Place was Castle Gardens at Dorney Park in Allentown PA until it burned down. Just got rid of my skates when I moved down here last year.
 
Got rid of your skates?....what ever for?.......I still have both sets....one for figure and one for speed......somewhere I have trophy's for speed records......and I still go skating whenever I can........being 47 doesn't stop me, and theres a few of us up in age that still show up, impresses the heck out of the kids that I can still shuffle......I request TaylorDaynes "Prove Your Love"...and I am on fire.....wasted and out of breath when I am done.....lol....only the second reason that would make me walk funny afterwards.....

here I am last year at a kids party.....and I am flying

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Looks like a neat rink. those are cool devices they have for those kids, making sure no one is left out.

The one that burned had a fantastic Altec Lansing sound system Suprised the bass didn't make it implode.

I won't complain from walking funny from either way of entertainment, I have a great time with both.
 
There used to be a roller rink outside of Alexandria Va up to the mid 60's.They had an organist and a Wurlilzer pipe organ there-talked to the organist as he played.Going to that place was one of the ways I got interested in organ music.I didn't skate just payed admission and listened to the music-other folks did that,too.Lots of organ fans just there listening-not skating.the place got torn down-the organ,fortunately sold to an organ collector.Don't remember if the place had other sources of music.Never heard them.
 
We had a rink in the next town.......Sunday evening(7 to 9) was for lessons.....and 9 to 11 was the organ player, and the senior generation would skate waltzes.........all the ladies in dresses, and the men in suits, almost like being on ice in a grand ballroom.....just gliding on air......it was great to watch!
 
Just saw "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" on public tv Sat night.

When the ward patients rebelled and threw a night-time party, they got the hi fi in the nurse's station going with with 45's. I don't know if it's the same machine that Nurse Ratchet used to play that awful Musak at full blast all day ("Many of our older patients are hard of hearing, so we have to play the music loud; it's all they have").

I have some 45's I picked up in the 60's and 70's. Maybe about 20 of them. It was a way to get some hits into a collection without having to shell out for the LP. And of course there is the random access nature of one hit per disk. Something that CD's can sort of approximate provided all the desired tunes are on one disc. Of course now with MP3's, you can instantly access any tune in any order on the storage medium (flash memory, hard drive, etc...). So I guess we've spent 50 years getting back to what RCA made possible first... lol...
 
RCA Attempts to Beat Columbia Into the Future of Records, Bu

Columbia Records (a division of CBS and major competitor to RCA) introduced the LP, 12" record in 1948, followed by RCA's 7" 45rpm disc the following year.  Although RCA thought the 45 format could supplant the LP through the use of boxed "albums" of 45's, it was not to be.  In the end the '45' merely supplanted the 78rpm as the new format for singles - much to the chagrin of General Sarnoff, head of RCA, and not one to accept #2 status, no matter the arena.

 

As for my personal collection of 45's, it numbers in the 2,000+ area, including mostly original pressings, picture sleeves, stereo pressings from the 1958-1962 era, colored vinyl and DJ/promo labels.  Although not played as often as they once were, I still look through them (thankfully they are alphabetized and in proper storage drawers) for the occasional listen and sometimes even transferred into the digital medium, ending up in my iTunes library.  They sure are fun, in spite of their often less-than high-quality audio.
 
Makes you wonder why they only have CD's currently....and of course theres getting individual songs off the net.....

Step back in time......1985ish......an artist I admire alot, but we'll use for an example......Janet Jackson....her album "Control"...

I bought the 45 singles, and the casingle cassettes, plus the full cassette, and the album, and also the CD...and later the DVD.......

in todays world.....I may get only a few off the net, but for the most part, pay 16.99 for the whole CD........

if the record companies were smart, they would have kept all of them still, making all that money off me....a lot of us still have record players, cassette decks, plus the CD's, MP3's...on and on...

heck I would have gotten the reel to reel.....
 
I haven't bought a CD out of a record store in years and years. I usually use Ebay to buy my music. Usually I can get the CD for less than half of what the local stores here are charging, brand new and still sealed.

Speaking of record/CD stores, there aren't many left around here. Recently a new coffee shop opened up that is also a used record store near downtown Houston. But the prices are like from $25.00 and up per record.

I went to one established used record store here and saw a copy of "The Byrds Greatest Hits" going for $65.00, still shrink wrapped. I found the same thing on Ebay for $9.95 with free shipping. Still shrink wrapped too. Guess which copy I bought?

Fortunately, there is a re surging interest in vinyl. Musical groups are now starting to release their new music on vinyl too. And there is interest in producing records that have better audio quality. This can only be good for us music lovers.
 
Another thing for "vinyl"Mastering equipment for record production is less expensive than for CD-and the record mastering and pressing equipment can be purchased surplus or used.And yes-the sound quality of records-they have a sound CD's can't match UNLESS the recording process-mastering-pressing processes on the records is PROPERLY done-sadly its becoming a lost art despite the availabiliy of used gear.-Surplused from major record labels when they converted pressing plants from records to CD.
 
33s in the 1930s

Victor tried the 33 format in the 1930s,around 1932.I bought a GE radio phono from an auction with a 2speed turntable.Its all original.They were 12 inch records made out of the same material as 78s. Bobby
 
Does anyone remember the aluminum records from the late 1930's? They were silver in color and you used a tonearm that used a cactus or bamboo needle as a stylus. I only recently heard about these myself recently.

The link goes to a video of a aluminum record being played on a Dual 1219.

 

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