• moonriver said on Mar 07, 2008....

  first me (actually, others had done this earlier), then twyla, then you. there's an epidemic of nostalgia going on... and i like your edition of it! i'm smiling widely -- almost dancing, actually -- as i played your virtual record player.
  
  in our parents' house, the record player was part of the sound system in the living room, so the four of us siblings had to take turns choosing what we wanted to play. luckily, we had similar musical tastes so there was no problem. we would actually do our homework to the tune of our favorite records.
  
  

• secretlife said on Mar 07, 2008....

  oh i had one of those little record players!  i remember i couldn't wait to go out and buy Bobby Sherman's Little Woman...and spin it and spin it and spin it!!!

• wombat said on Mar 07, 2008....

  I remember us having a red and white one of those "suitcase type" players!  My sisters played Elvis and The Beetles on it over and over.  When I was 15 I got a "cabinet stereo" for my birthday.  What a rediculous thing!  It was as big as a coffee table with a lid that opened up--but it only played records.  Not even a radio!  All the rest was just wasted space to store the records, I guess.  But I spent many hours with candles burning in the dark and listening to my music  I remember the group "Marmalade"  (spelling?) and playing my favorite group over and over--Three Dog Night.

• quietone said on Mar 07, 2008....

  moon ~ I saw twylas post with her little transister.  LOL seems like we all had about the same thing at one time or another!! Must have been a big sale in the Sears and Robuck catalog.   I will have to go find the others!  :) 
   

• quietone said on Mar 07, 2008....

  secret ~  I remember sitting there watchin the label spin 'round and 'round.  The dog with the megaphone?  RCA??  I can't remember the label, but I remember watching that dog get dizzy!  LOL

• quietone said on Mar 07, 2008....

  wombie ~  I know those big cabinet stereos you are talking about.  We had one later with the radio and the record player... yes they were huge with all that space for the record albums.. and for some reason "stuff" always ended on top of the thing, and every time I wanted to play it, I had to find a place for all that "stuff' in order to open the lid.  LOL

• beyondtheveil said on Mar 07, 2008....

  quiet- What goes here? I had a blue and white one that opened up too. Endless hours I spent with that thing- it went to a few parties as I remember. 

• secretlife said on Mar 07, 2008....

  we had one of those furniture-stereo things in our living room too.
  my mother used to put all 5 of us in front of it, put on one of her favorite 78 records, and use that time to dust the furniture.  she used to sing and dance as she dusted which would always be really great entertainment for us!

• moonriver said on Mar 07, 2008....

  quietone -- i love how this topic has branched out to record players and stereo cabinets...lol. the dog with the megaphone (rca victor records, you're right) intrigued me too. i kept wondering what a dog's got to do with the music. that dog sure got dizzy a million times hahaha.
  
  
  

• mobil said on Mar 07, 2008....

• mobil said on Mar 07, 2008....

  The bastard ate my words

• Twylarants said on Mar 07, 2008....

  Oh my God...Red Rubber Ball! I couldn't start typing until it was over because I was swaying back and forth in the chair.  Ahhhh...I love it!
  My record player was red and white, like Wombie's.  When I got my first job I bought a real turntable so I could play albums...ooohh!
  I loved The Four Seasons, The Righteous Brothers,  Little Anthony and The Imperials...
  I have to go to that site Lennie mentioned and listen to all that old stuff.
  Reminiscing is so much fun.  I'm really glad you're all old things like me...lol!!
  

• quietone said on Mar 07, 2008....

  beyond ~ like I said... it was on sale at Sears and Robuck I think!! LOL  Looks like they were either blue and white or red and white! 

• quietone said on Mar 07, 2008....

  secret ~ that must have been great entertainment for you all!  My mother was more into those awful country tunes.. the really old ones!  She didn't dance any but she did sing.  I think she sat while I dusted though

• quietone said on Mar 07, 2008....

  moon ~ it is interesting to recall some of these little things like that dog and the megaphone!  LOL  see what you started!  :)

• quietone said on Mar 07, 2008....

  mobil ~ hahahaha...... you just crack me up!!

• quietone said on Mar 07, 2008....

  twyla ~ yes I remember all those singers, and yes those were the good "ole" days!  what site is that that Lbno talked about?  I missed that one. 

• Twylarants said on Mar 07, 2008....

  Quiet~
  
  http://www.tropicalglen.com
  
  Now I can't remember if it was Lennie or D6fer.  Oh, well....this is the site.
  

• skald said on Mar 07, 2008....

  Oh Quiet does that not bring memories, both the song and what you said. Me  in my little room with either the record player or the radio singing my head off. Making so much noise and then in the living room my parent had an equipment with a radio, tape recorder and a record player where I could put many records on like you did, Oh it was good sometimes being a teenager. 

• secretlife said on Mar 07, 2008....

  i will make you laugh--- some of her records were italian songs, but the song i remember most clearly her dancing to and singing to and having all of us in stitches over was called Poopsilena.
  i've searched and searched for it, but can't find it.  For some reason i thought it was a Dean Martin song....

• quietone said on Mar 07, 2008....

  skald ~ yes it brings back some good memories for sure.  secret, twyla and I are having a great time with this. And its all moonrivers fault!! 

• quietone said on Mar 07, 2008....

  secret  ~ poopsilena?  nope that is a new one.  I hope or wish you could find it, I would love to hear it.  now we will be on a mission for this song! haha

• scipio said on Mar 07, 2008....

  Oh ! those were the days. Just put the record and listen. No zillion knobs to fiddle around with and no technical jingos to hear the sound.
  However scratchy the record - the music was what matters.
  Pure and simple
   

• tizzygirl said on Mar 07, 2008....

  Aren't some memories just grand?  I didn't have a 45 myself...nope...but I did see one once...my Mom still had hers when I was young...it was in a white and gold case and she had tons of 45's...my sister and I would play with it....in fact I'm pretty sure we broke it....hmmm...I wonder?

• rupert7 said on Mar 07, 2008....

  
  Remember the agonizing moments when a tiff ocured with your only true love and the world came to an end.. I used to pace my room playing such songs as this in these catastrophic moments! Agonizing teen drama's! Here are the Bee Gees.I started a joke:
  
  
  

• moonriver said on Mar 07, 2008....

  hey rupe, you hit it right on the head. spinnin old 45s in the middle of the night and belting out the chorus to temper one's heartaches... until your parents knocked on your door and bawled you out for that caterwauling noise done at full volume.
  
  and esp the bee-gees... first of may, i started a joke, spicks n specks... i could go on and on, in fake falsetto at that. dang, gotta go to youtube quick! :-)
  
  

• quietone said on Mar 07, 2008....

  scipio ~ ah yes, I agree.  I could even run one of them! 

• quietone said on Mar 07, 2008....

  twyla ~ oh didn't see yo sneak back in....... thanks for the link!  :)

• quietone said on Mar 07, 2008....

  tizzygirl ~ oh, no you broke your moms victrola!!  did she ever susupect it was you and your sister.

• quietone said on Mar 07, 2008....

  rupe ~ one of my favorite songs and bands! thanks for taking the walk with us!

• quietone said on Mar 07, 2008....

  moon ~ see you really started all of this you know!!  :)

• gingersoul said on Mar 07, 2008....

  Quiet......just like Moon, we had a pretty nifty record player in the living room...my father used to retreat there seating on his favorite chair reading and listening to his beloved jazz......So i learned to love Louis Armstrong, Cole Porter, Duke Ellington thanks to him.

  Then there was the glorious moment in which the record player was really the central point of our family.

  This was happening any New Year first morning. A huge deal for us Italians, the first lunch of the year was always a pantagruelic feast..a five course meal...and my dad started the tradition to crack up the music since mid morning waiting for it...

  So the house was filled with the delicious smell of my mom's cooking and the ears were delighted by the classical music and operas that my father was putting on picking from his vast collection of long playings...

  The lunch then would start always, always, with the piece of Tchaikowsky "The swan". ,

   Nice memories, Quiet...:-)

• lfbno7 said on Mar 07, 2008....

  I could name that tune in one note. It was a historic song and group for me. I was a camp counselor, and it was parents' day, so I was free of the kids for a day, and some of us had arranged to see The Circle on that day, and others had arranged to see the Lovin Spoonful. I didn't get to do either because I spent the whole day in the woods with my girlfriend, for which I got fired. We broke the camp director's cot in the woods, and lost track of time, and returned to camp when it started to get dark out and everyone was already eating supper. That's okay. Nancy F was really cute. After we got back home, we got back together, so it was more than just a summer romance. She was a lot more important to me than the last three weeks of camp that I missed.

• Mr.Stupid said on Mar 08, 2008....

  My dad owned a tavern when I was little. It had a juke box in it. we would play pool and shuffleboard and listen to the records.When a song came on that dad didn't like he would push a button in the kitchen that would cancel it. We had to listen to a lot of bad music. Mostly western music. There was this one song that went kind of like this: Work your fingers to the bone, whadda ya git? boney fingers, boney fingers.
  But some of the good records made it home when they got taken out. The Beatles, Elvis, Three Dog Night. I still have some of them.
  

• purposeful said on Mar 08, 2008....

  My parents still have their 45's, and go through them once in awhile

• quietone said on Mar 08, 2008....

  ginger ~ did you happen to know that song that secret mentioned?  Poopsilena? I also tried to find it but could not.  That sounds like a wondrful first day of the year ginger.. what great family memories.

• quietone said on Mar 08, 2008....

  Lbno ~ now that is a memory!!  broke the cot?  LOL  I guess you two were making your own music.  :)  Do you still know where Nance F is today?

• quietone said on Mar 08, 2008....

  Mr. Stupid ~ Oh, those wonderful old juke boxes!  I remember those secret buttons also.  I also found the one in the back that gave us free music until someone found out what I had done before I could go reset it! haha.  I wish I still had some of those old 45s.  It would be really fun to play them now and again. 

• gingersoul said on Mar 08, 2008....

  Quiet.......never heard of this song.....i am sorry....but i will look around....

• lfbno7 said on Mar 08, 2008....

  Nancy F became a model, then designed hospital rooms and was VP of a tiny company that did that, including just her and the president. She got married, had kids the same time I did, had a daughter named Danielle the same year I had a son named Daniel, got divorced and said she was very glad to be rid of him so there wasn't a lot of fighting in the house, and became a teacher in the southwest somewhere, teaching god knows what, not in a public school, maybe in an adult or vocational school.
  
  Whenever I hear Brown Eyed Girl by Van Morrison I think of her. Making love in the green grass behind the stadium. And that line "man, how you have grown", because I knew her when she was 13 and 14, and though she didn't get any taller, she was already tall, she sure grew in that year. And I think of her when I hear Bob Seger's song Night Moves, when he says "I used her, she used me, neither one cared, we were gettin our share". If only we ever talked to each other, I think it would have lasted longer than it did.

• quietone said on Mar 09, 2008....

  ginger ~ that would be cool to be able to hear secrets little poopsilena song I think.  thanks for trying.

• quietone said on Mar 09, 2008....

  Lbno ~ I like that song brown eyed girl too.  Not for the sentimental value you have of it, but I still like the song... even though my eyes are blue.  You sound like you both had a wonderful "special time" together growing up.  A fond memory too, so that is good.  It is funny how you both named your kids the same name -  gender wise, anyway. 

• skald said on Mar 09, 2008....

  I think it is not Moons fault. We have him to thank for it lol 

• quietone said on Mar 09, 2008....

  skald ~ yes you are right... he did start it.. but it has been great fun.  :)

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