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'Proper' pop music! 🙄
Alsatian:
Does anyone remember being able to buy 'ex juke box' 45rpm records? They were a cheap(er) way of buying fairly recent hits? They had the 'centre' removed and needed an adaptor fitted to the spindle on the record player.
Moving on to 33rpm records you could buy K tel albums of current hits by the original artists or (more likely) you bought the hits sung by 'sound alike' (ish) groups at a fraction of the price.
Those were the days (my friend, I thought they'd never end)!
Also what is/was your favourite all time song? Mine is Crazy by Patsy Cline.
Alsatian:
And here's a couple of examples, the album cover would be considered extremely sexist today!
Alsatian:
Here's a K tel album cover, along with Ronco who also produced original artists records.
Sorastro:
It gave me an excuse to rummage through my collection of 45's and L.P.'s
I too have the K Tel labels, also similar out there were Phillips and Arcade. I've actually got three with the price tags still stuck on....
Capitol,Beach Boys good vibrations album {PRESTO £1:05p}
Arcade, 20 number 1's {Woolworth's £1:99p}
K Tel, Dynamite 20 original hits {Woolworth's £2:25p}
Can you remember the "Ronco album selector"?
I also have at least sixty 45's, a dozen of which are ex juke box
Alsatian:
My first single, in the early 60s, was Telstar by the Tornadoes, with Globetrotter on the B side (later re released with Jungle Rock as the B side).
At the time my parents ran a pub and once, when the record started playing on the record player (Dansette) (to the sound of a space ship taking off) a customer shot over to it, thinking the needle had missed the beginning of the record! 🤣
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