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Post by housemouse on Jul 23, 2005 9:11:04 GMT -5
Have I just totally dated myself? Record albums, how many people here don't even know what a those are? That's almost like talking about 8 tracks isn't it?
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Post by kytdunne on Jul 23, 2005 11:44:37 GMT -5
Have I just totally dated myself? Record albums, how many people here don't even know what a those are? That's almost like talking about 8 tracks isn't it? -laughing- Uh, yeah. Though I did have an 8-track that I've never found in any other format. Singer was a young man named Browning Bryant. (Well, he'd be old now, like me). Kyt |
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Post by shmeep on Jul 23, 2005 16:35:01 GMT -5
We had an old 8 track in our 1981 Chevy Impala Station Wagon (the kind with the rear-facing back seat--that my parents just finally gave to charity LAST YEAR) and we only had three 8 track tapes:
The Beatles: Rarities (GREAT album)
Styx: Paradise Theatre
And some weird Christian Country album by an obscure band called "The Agape Singers" that my dad listened to because someone gave it to him for free and he hated to waste anything. All I remember is how we all screamed in protest whenever he played it, particularly this one song that included the line (sung in really twangy voices) "Jeeee-sus diiiiiiiieed of a broooooo-ken heart!" When the 8 track died and ate that tape one glorious day on the way home from church, my brothers and I cheered loudly. But we missed the other two albums. They were pretty cool. I don't know where they came from.
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Post by shmeep on Jul 23, 2005 22:05:21 GMT -5
I just talked to the folks today and was told that my dad had that 8 track of "The Agape Singers" because he was able to buy a whole bunch of them for $.99 at Gemco (probably just as the 8 track was becoming obsolete). I guess I must have blotted the others that he bought from my memory.
Does anyone remember Gemco? Lady Lee brand ice cream? Yummy mint and chip!
And don't worry, Mouse. I had lots of vinyl albums. Mom was too cheap to buy me Grease, so she got an imitation album called "Kid's Stuff Grease" with other people singing all the songs. I told her she should have paid the two bucks extra and got the real thing. That has nothing to do with anything, but I still think it's funny.
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Post by doobrah on Jul 24, 2005 7:54:20 GMT -5
HAD allbums? I still have all of mine including all the 45s. I was playing an old Hollies LP a few weeks ago and realized I need a new belt for the turntable. The lead singers voice has dropped a note or two.
And 45s.... there was some silly study a few years ago where kids were shown a symbol and asked what it was. They thought it was a gang symbol. It was a spindle for a 45 -- so all of us who remember 45s had a good laugh.
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Post by housemouse on Jul 24, 2005 8:16:47 GMT -5
I just sold the last of my records to a local shop. To this day everytime I hear Killer Queen I expect to hear the skip my record had.
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Post by Eyphur on Jul 27, 2005 21:47:11 GMT -5
I have a record player I got it for Christmas 2002 whenI was 19. I ocassionally listen to some of my parrents' records. I don't have any albums of my own. Growing up in the mid-90's I listened to a couple of 8 tracks (my parrents still had the player set up then). I eventually bought one of the groups on CD. I have a reel to reel machine in my closet. It's fun to play with although it is not in the best shape.
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