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Remember the Fun in Playing Records?

Ah, the great days of playing vinyl records...they spun around
like a spinning top..the most fun were the 45's, cause they
didnt spin to fast or too slow, and you could watch the label
go around, and still more or less read it.
The 78's were fun when they were stacked, especially when the
auto player changed the record, this happened quickly, based on the gearing or speed of the changer.
in fact it was manic...
The most fun was having phonograph or record players that had
auto changers on them. you could stack many ot the 78s
or 45.s at least 6 or 7, and watch as they changed,dropped down and started playing
It was more or less a low tech way of programming the music..
And...whilst we listened to some of our favorite 45's be it
Beatles, Beach Boys, Elvis, or whatever, we also could gaze at
some of our picture sleeves sitting near by with the the artists
picture on it..
i remember JAck Scott, he had this manic look in the pose of his body and face..Im sure it was one of his early hits.
Also, there was Elvis, The Dave Clark 5, The Supremes, etc. many of them had
picture sleeves.athat were 7" in size
Now,today, aside from the excellent sound quality.. the little
cd's we have are deficient in a couople of areas.
1. the size
no room for poster or cover art, and
2. we dont get to see the discs spin around..
plus there are so many songs on them, our old discs only had one or 2 at the most..
(there was the "ep" a 45 with 2 on each side)
the cd yet another form of miniaturization..

Ive yet to get myself a good 45 changer from rca that is in
working condition, or a good auto changer from the early 60s
Sometimes the tone arm was so heavy it cut its own groove, but
what the hey!~
I do remember "borrowing some old 78's from our local library
(Victor Young and his orchestra,) but aIso remember sitting on
them and breaking them, then trying to explain to our librarian
what happened..
I think I was 12.

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