[78-L] First 78

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As I wrote bout just recently, our entertainment system included a 
separate 45 and LP/78 changer, B/W TV (21 or 24" or some such) AM FM 
radio but not stereo, and one large speaker. Philips IIRC. Would've been 
no later than about '53 I think. And it was my mother's records, not my 
Dad.s He didn't care much about records and his ear was not so musical. 
He listened to Lawrence Welk, I think because that's what everyone else 
in his family listened to. My attraction to music and my lust for 
records was learned from my mother. My interest in 78s was because the 
changer would operate so much faster and more frequently than LPs. Slow. 
Hard to keep a pre-schooler waiting that long for anything!

joe salerno


On 12/21/2010 7:44 PM, Robert M. Bratcher Jr. wrote:
> What did you play your dads 78's on when you were 3 or 4 years old? Some kind of
> windup phono? A childs phonograph? Or maybe o 40's or 50's era (modern then)
> electric phono? My first record player was a hand me down from the early 50's
> that my dad&  his brother owned together. I don't remember much about it other
> than it was dark brown, a changer&  a tabletop model. Yes I still have the
> records that I played on it when I was little but that old phono is long gone. I
> was born in 1959&  had that record player when I was about 4 or 5 years old.
> Wasn't allowed to play my dads reords back then though so you were very lucky.
>
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> From: Steven C. Barr<stevenc at interlinks.net>
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> Now as far as "first 78 acquired" this is different! My father had some 300
> or so 78's (which I inherited by
> default...no one else wanted them...!). I was allowed to play them as a VERY
> young child (of 4 or so); one
> of my favourites was a Brunswick of the Mills Brothers "Good-Bye Blues" (as
> well as his album-set reissues
> of the Boswell Sisters!) I still own all of these (and MANY more!!). Among
> the first 78's I bought
> (about 25 at a flea market) was the Columbia of Guy Lombardo's "Sweethearts
> On  Parade;" this set
> me looking for more 20's/early 30's Lombardo discs...!
>
> Steven C. Barr
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