Community Chat

[Laura14]

I haven't had one in about 30 years so I was a kid in a candy store when I finally got it all unwrapped and dusted off my needle playing skills.  I heard that crackle and static and it just brought me back to when I was a kid playing my parents and grandparents records in the family room. 

You really don't know how much of yourself and your personal pleasure you have lost to the new technology until you go back and try the old way for a bit.   I have lost all of my old LPs (who knew it would ever come back) long ago but I found some old records my mother kept from the 1950s. 

I'll need to restock on vinyl again.  I hope I can find the old 1930s and 1940s music compilations I used to play back in the day from my grandmother's collection.  For me, the old music sounds best when played the way it was originally intended to be.  

[Caaareful Shopper]

@Laura14  I just purchased a new turntable for my niece and her husband for Christmas.  I added the Legend album by Bob Marley to go with it.  I hope they are as thrilled about this as I am!

[Laura14]

They will love it @Caaareful Shopper.  I bought a double Sinatra LP.  I'll be breaking that open and playing it tonight.  

[Sweet_Serenity]

@Laura14

Love! Hearing your excitement. Enjoy! In good health and happiness. 

[qualitygal]

What fun, enjoy!

[beckyb1012]

How exciting for you.  I still remember my first for Christmas in '72.  Just a couple of days later Mom took me with my Christmas money and I bought the below from Ktel.  Wore that album out.  Have fun.

	–Looking Glass	Brandy (You're A Fine Girl)
A2	–Daniel Boone	Beautiful Sunday
A3	–Lighthouse (2)	Sunny Days
A4	–Mouth & MacNeil*	How Do You Do?
A5	–Hollies*	Long Cool Woman
A6	–Donny Osmond	Go Away Little Girl
A7	–O'Jays*	Backstabbers
A8	–Raspberries	Go All The Way
A9	–Andy & David Williams*	Fly Pretty Baby
A10	–Rod Stewart	Maggie May
A11	–Bobby Vinton	Sealed With A Kiss
B1	–Cher	Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves
B2	–Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show	Sylvia's Mother
B3	–Donny Osmond	Sweet & Innocent
B4	–Argent	Hold Your Head Up
B5	–Eric Clapton	Let It Rain
B6	–Slade	Mama Weer All Crazee Now
B7	–Bulldog (9)	No
B8	–Five Man Electrical Band	Money Back Guarantee
B9	–Rick Springfield	Speak To The Sky
B10	–Albert Hammond	Down By The River
B11	–Gallery (2)	I Believe In Music

[2blonde]

@Laura14  Now we really need to get together.  I have a pretty good sized stack of LP's from the 60's and 70's.  I do actually have a turntable on my old stereo system, but I haven't used it in years (got caught up in the newer CD's).  There were even more albums I gave away when I moved in 1991.

A couple years ago I went to a house party that had a DJ with hundreds of LP's we could choose from.  It was a yearly event for them.  Everyone was from that era and we had a great time dancing on their patio!

[sunshine45]

@beckyb1012

i used to buy those albums!

love that they had all of the hits by so many of my favorite 70s artists.

[QVCkitty1]

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@beckyb1012 wrote:

How exciting for you.  I still remember my first for Christmas in '72.  Just a couple of days later Mom took me with my Christmas money and I bought the below from Ktel.  Wore that album out.  Have fun.

	–Looking Glass	Brandy (You're A Fine Girl)
A2	–Daniel Boone	Beautiful Sunday
A3	–Lighthouse (2)	Sunny Days
A4	–Mouth & MacNeil*	How Do You Do?
A5	–Hollies*	Long Cool Woman
A6	–Donny Osmond	Go Away Little Girl
A7	–O'Jays*	Backstabbers
A8	–Raspberries	Go All The Way
A9	–Andy & David Williams*	Fly Pretty Baby
A10	–Rod Stewart	Maggie May
A11	–Bobby Vinton	Sealed With A Kiss
B1	–Cher	Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves
B2	–Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show	Sylvia's Mother
B3	–Donny Osmond	Sweet & Innocent
B4	–Argent	Hold Your Head Up
B5	–Eric Clapton	Let It Rain
B6	–Slade	Mama Weer All Crazee Now
B7	–Bulldog (9)	No
B8	–Five Man Electrical Band	Money Back Guarantee
B9	–Rick Springfield	Speak To The Sky
B10	–Albert Hammond	Down By The River
B11	–Gallery (2)	I Believe In Music

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Oh my gosh, these songs remind me of college, especially Maggie May and Brandy, good times.😻

[Laura14]

This is what I need to find @beckyb1012. Compilations.  

My only gripe is I am having a hard time paying $20-30 plus bucks for an LP.  It was $5-$15 tops for a double in the 80s when I started buying my own records.  I know it's been a few decades but it's still a vinyl record.    

This one has Rick Springfield.  He was my first ever album buy.  My sister and I fought over buying it and the smart sales girl said why don't one of you buy the older one and the other one the newer one and then you have both?  And we did!