[78-L] Beach Boys 78s

[Cary Ginell]

Our first stereo unit was made by Webcor. My father traded his cousin for it. To get it, he had to give up a broken-down 1959 Hillman and our old swing set. I think the swing set outlasted the other two items. For some reason that I can't recall, I was under the impression that you couldn't play stereo records with a monaural needle because it would ruin the grooves. So the Webcor was used for our stereo LPs and we played all of our mono 45s and LPs on a Garrard RC 88, which I still have. I was 10 so what did I know?

Cary Ginell

> Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 19:29:35 -0400
> From: mbiel at mbiel.com
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Beach Boys 78s
> 
> On 4/18/2011 7:06 PM, Mark Bardenwerper wrote:
> > Of course. The target audience in those days listened to AM radio and
> > played 45's on little portable phonos. Dad had the big HI-Fi unit
> > downstairs and he would not allow that "crap" to play on his equipment.
> > Ask me. I was there.
> >
> I was there too, and starting in 1959 when I was 13 when I bought a 
> record I ALWAYS got the stereo LP if it was available.  *I* was the one 
> in my family who had the big hi-fi unit, but my sister had gotten a 
> Columbia stereo portable with detachable speakers a few months before I 
> got my stereo turntable for my system, and she also was buying pop 
> stereo LPs rather than mono if they were available.
> 
> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
> 
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