[78-L] Igor, it worked..was Re: Turnover instructions

David Lennick dlennick at sympatico.ca
Tue Nov 4 06:45:18 PST 2008


Hmm..was Golden part of that Commie plot to take over all the kiddies' minds, 
or just YPR?

dl

Tyrone Settlemier wrote:
> David covered it pretty well, but when I was six years old, my dentist(!) 
> gave me some Little Golden 6" 78rpm discs (this was the mid 1970s).  Many of 
> these were missing the labels.  Of note is what I now know to be #6, Circus 
> Time, side 1 is Big Top and side 2 is Sideshows.  Both sides tell you to 
> "turn the record over".  It just drove me nuts because, not having the 
> labels, I could never figure out which was side 1 vs. side 2.  Was I 
> supposed to listen to the sideshows first, or the main attraction?  I guess 
> it was the inner discographer screaming to be let out, and now, as a result 
> of this incredible emotional trauma inficted on me by yellow polystyrene, I 
> now spend way too much time collecting arcane data related to recorded sound 
> so that others do not have to suffer the same fate.
> 
> And this posting proves it's way past my bedtime.
> 
> Tyrone
> 



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