[78-L] There are puzzle records, and there are puzzle records

[Clifford Bolling]

The best one I've found so far is a 2 record kiddie set, "THE EVER-SO-MANY AMAZING ADVENTURES OF JOHNNY" by 'Atlantic Records for Children'.  Each of the 4 sides has 4 grooves, each about 1 minute long and each a different version of the story EXCEPT for the last side which goes to a single groove about 40 seconds into the record so all the stories have the same ending.  It is possible to come up with over 1000 minutes of stories if you listen to each of the 256 different possiblities.  
 
Watch and listen to these records play here:
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9O3AsvJGzI
  
Enjoy!  CDB
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Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2011 12:59:02 -0500
From: David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
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Anyone with auto-stop as well might have trouble playing the center portion, 
although that could be defeated. (Our first changer was a Stromberg Carlson 
that tripped at a certain point, whether the record was finished or not!)

dl

On 12/4/2011 12:52 PM, Michael Biel wrote:
> Lots of luck to anybody with an automatic record changer back then ever
> getting to play the inner part of the record.  Why oh why did they put
> an eccentric trip-groove at the end of the outer section?
>
> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> From: David Lennick<dlennick at sympatico.ca>
>> And then there's this one, with TWO sets of grooves on each side..you have to
>> play one from the first set and then get the punch line from the second set, so
>> you get 36 possibilities on each side (or something like that).
>>  http://www.popsike.com/pix/20110104/120667475775.jpg
>> Oops, sorry chaps, I blew the last one..start over!  dl
>
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