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[Tawnyowl]

Now someone said the other day it is getting a little serious,a little heavy man, in the Bear Garden.

And i have thought about this ever since.

I enjoy fun as much as anyone and have enjoyed some of the fun times in here lately.

Brought a smile to me a good few times this week.

I myself put serious issues on,so i am a little at fault perhaps.Just nice to let vent up thoughts out.

 

Now i am knocking on a bit now,physically but certainly not mentally,still feel eighteen.

Strange how the body says one thing and the mind says steady now,think,just as you are about to do a triple somersault of a diving board or something like that.

Some of you know probably what i mean.

Which reading that sentence again above has baffled me,body and mind getting mixed a little.

 

Well a article i have just read suddenly brought back good memories.

Vinyl records starting to be sold in a Supermarket.

 

Does anyone remember many years ago.

Well let me blow away the mists of time,or try to anyway.

Coffee bars with names like the beehive where you met your mates had a coffee,dressed in the latest fashions,

chat and hit that jukebox for hours at a time.

Watching as you put your coins in,select the records and see it pick them and off it went.

Eying up the talent perhaps.

Perhaps a game on the flipper machines.

 

Or at home with your own record player,you lucky devils,all records in a record box,carefully labelled.

Turning the power on,loading up the record player,45s 6 at a time,listening to the click as one dropped,the arm moving

the needle scratch as they started playing.Avoiding knocks at all cost.

 

Well enough of my memories,have you any.Do you remember those days when DVD would sound like some disease not a music format.

I hope someone has.I like a story or two.Go on,i can feel you remembering,tell us,what you wore,your record player,what kind of music you liked.Where you went of a nighttime.Your mates.

 

Sainsbury's re-introducing vinyl 'validates the relevance' of the format

You can now buy vinyl when doing your weekly shop at Sainsbury's.

The supermarket is stocking records for the first time since the 1980s, following a similar move by Tesco.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/35859986/sainsburys-re-introducing-vinyl-validates-the-relevance-of-the-format

 

And the British Phonographic Industry (BPI), which represents the UK's recorded music industry, says it suggests the format "will be around for a long time to come".

In 2015 sales of vinyl went over the two million mark for the first time in 21 years.

 

Why millennials are buying more vinyl records

 

The entertainment industry always loves a good comeback story, and music's latest resurgence is no exception. Despite an explosion in digital and streaming music — including Spotify, Apple Music, Pandora and Tidal — consumers are spending more money on vinyl records, and more vinyl buyers are millennials.

http://www.cnbc.com/2015/11/06/why-millennials-are-buying-more-vinyl-records.html

[AndyOrch]

I have never got rid of my collection TO...and still prefer vinyl to my CD version...Pioneer equipment still going strong and sounds like the day I bought it

[maroondevo52]

I've got Blondie's 'Picture This' in yellow vinyl

 

Also have the Cars ' My Best Friend's Girl ' on Picture Disc.

 

 

When I was young, my brother got a free plastic record with a magazine, he thought it was the bee's knee's.

I sat on it by mistake and it folded in half, I was trying to get the crease out of it but it melted to the Iron !!! (True )

[reallymadwoman]

I still have Elton John's 'Yellow Brick Road' on yellow vinyl, it's only been played once to record it onto cassette, but I bitterly regret selling all my picture discs when we hit hard times many years ago. At one time I had about 1000 singles and probably 500 albums, but they nearly all went.

[martin2006]

The first single i ever bought was Suzi Quattro, devil gate drive

The first album i bought was a few years later, i wasnt really an album person back then until i reached teen years but ut was The Thompson Twins, Quickstep and Sidekick.

First CD was Dire Straits, Brothers in Arms.

I used to have a little silver single case and all the singles i had were alphabetically listed, i was a bit of a geek back then, suppose i still am.

 

I remember the first record player i ever had was one of those that locked up like a case, mainly blue with a white fold down lid and portable.

 

Recording the top 40 on a sunday between 5 and 7pm was all the rage and you had to hit the pause button before the damn dj started waffling

[citizenB]

I have never got rid of my collection TO...and still prefer vinyl to my CD version...Pioneer equipment still going strong and sounds like the day I bought it

 

Hubby has quite a decent collection - sadly quite reduced when we moved - a missing box containing Eddie Cochran and others from that period.

 

My very first record was Concrete and Clay by Unit 4 + 2 - I purchased it with the tips from my Saturday hairdressing job

 

[Filcin]

I had a massive collection of all sorts going right back to the beginning of the sixties. I advertised them locally for free to either a private collector or a commercial business.

The man who came to claim them had to go away and come back with a Transit and someone to help him as the boxes wouldn't fit in his Range Rover and each box was too heavy for one to lift.

[Tawnyowl]

I am really enjoying your stories ,brings a smile to old Tawny.Keep them coming.Many must have memories of days gone by.

Just a few of my memories.And maybe a couple of tunes.

 

Live in a seaside town.

Did a working stint at the Mecca,very young should not have been there really,remember the Disco ball, the light reflecting,the small of smoke,perfume and beer in the air.The Radio 1 DJS popping to do Sat night stint.

Bit hazy that memory.

 

Then worked in a Disco called Shades in Blackpool 80 hours a week.

Brand new, lighting systems,everything gleaming perfume,and beautiful ladies of course.Never noticed the blokes.

Red shirts black pants, uniform.Very smart.

Quickly promoted to chief burger flipper.Catcher of chairs flying through the air.peeler of onions etc.Full on view of dance floor-work till 3.

Just as Saturday night fever swept the nation.A great time.Used to wait for the tune to come on and everyone strut their stuff.Packed dance area.Instantly.

Got to have that tune.

 

 

Was around when Abba came out,Dancing Queen etc.

Saw the dance floors pack out and tapped my hooves a little myself.Go on then.Popped over to Rochdale Mecca i think and had a fine night.

 

70s,fun in the sun spent a season,nearly every night watching Smokie before they hit the big time.No tax to super tax just like that.

Jenks bar, Blackpool,Kevin Jon the DJ.

I remember them as clear as a bell. We can easily check them out tunes are everywhere.

 

However someone mentioned Devil Gate Drive.Suzi Quatro

Had a fine night at a dance in Coniston,the Lake district one night which i will never forget,so put the lead singer with Suzi girl,and you have fun.

 

Then we move on a bit.This post is a little mixed.

Was somewhere one night late end of season,place closed and Robbie Williams was having some fun behind on the rides with his Canadian girlfriend,eagles music floating through the cool november calm evening.Footage is out there,but another record he made in town.Drove into a area he was filming,never seen so many bruisers and trucks around.Word got out,place became rather busy.

 

And another singer.To wind this up,i have gone on long enough.Your turn.Very interesting

Rollercoaster-made in town.

 

Then got interested in Northern Soul.First one i bought i think.Hazy.

Afternoon of the rhino.What else.Memories for some of Wigan Casino perhaps.

-- mike post coalition-- northern soul

 

Come on tell us your story,memories etc.Whatever era.

[Tawnyowl]

While someone may be writing a story to put on a little

Met a good few people on my travels around.

Met a beautiful lady one night who tried to sell me a very expensive ring.Did not ask what she wanted the money for Now the next day i found out who her partner was.And what she wanted the money for.

A very well known singer.

Choosing my words very carefully i am like a doctor,never give away anything that could embarrass someone.

 

One more bit of gossip not that anyone will read this.What do you think of this.

Talked to a very wealthy man one day.Who back in the day used to have hundreds of Juke Boxes put them in certain places.

And provided records to put in them.

Told me he possibly could influence the charts by putting certain carefully chosen records in them. In hundreds and hundreds of Jukeboxes. Youngsters and people listened,than went out to buy them.

 

Back in the day.

Surely not. But i have wondered.Gossip over.

[reallymadwoman]

Not strictly about vinyl, but an abiding memory is sitting on the steps of the (closed) local shop on Sunday evening with the portable radio, listening to the new top 40, a whole crowd of us all singing along to our favourites and then the moment of anticipation when the countdown approached number 1. As soon as the programme was over we'd all be outside the off licence waiting for them to open, dead on the dot of 7, so we could spend our 10p pocket money on sweets before getting home only a few minutes after the 'school night' curfew.

[havinastella]

I noticed they were selling vinyl records in Sainsbury's yesterday!

[Tawnyowl]

andyorch

I have never got rid of my collection TO...and still prefer vinyl to my CD version...

Pioneer equipment still going strong and sounds like the day I bought it

 

Now when people put their stories on i read them and look around for info on those days.

I checked out Pioneer and yes their equipment is very highly rated

And having your collection still,well done.

 

Strange memory of vinyl just came back,skimming the 45s in a mouse infested bedsit trying to shut them up.

Lived near donkey sheds think that's why they knocked around.

Gnawing away at the wires to record player.

 

maroonndevo52

I've got Blondie's 'Picture This' in yellow vinyl

Also have the Cars ' My Best Friend's Girl ' on Picture Disc.

When I was young, my brother got a free

plastic record with a magazine, he thought it was the bee's knee's.

I sat on it by mistake and it folded in half, I was trying to get the crease out of it but it melted to the Iron !!! (True )

Hope it was a younger brother otherwise could be a little painful perhaps.

A funny memory.

 

As for Blondie,what can you say,i had better not say anything.

 

reallymadwomen

I still have Elton John's 'Yellow Brick Road' on yellow vinyl, it's only been played once to record it onto cassette,

but I bitterly regret selling all my picture discs when we hit hard times many years ago.

At one time I had about 1000 singles and probably 500 albums, but they nearly all went.

Still got your memories though of a huge collection and the fun times you had.Buying them,playing them

and brings thoughts of those days back

 

martin 2006

The first single i ever bought was Suzi Quattro, devil gate drive

The first album i bought was a few years later, i wasnt really an album person back then

until i reached teen years but ut was The Thompson Twins, Quickstep and Sidekick.

First CD was Dire Straits, Brothers in Arms.

I used to have a little silver single case and all the singles i had were alphabetically listed, i was a bit of a geek back then, suppose i still am.

I remember the first record player i ever had was one of those that locked up like a case,mainly blue with a white fold down lid and portable.

Recording the top 40 on a sunday between 5 and 7pm was all the rage and you had to

hit the pause button before the damn dj started waffling ��

 

Fine memories,brought back one or two for myself.

I knew a good few people who used to carefully list them,writing had to be perfect on the sleeves etc.

 

citizenB

Hubby has quite a decent collection - sadly quite reduced when we moved - a missing box containing Eddie Cochran and others from that period.

My very first record was Concrete and Clay by Unit 4 + 2 - I purchased it with the tips from my Saturday hairdressing job

 

Ah yes the 60S,The Beatles,Monkees,so many bands, Radio Caroline,listening to it under the sheets.Waiting for the jingle.Beach Boys so many memories for people.

Saving for a record then off down to the shop perhaps and saying,hey mister put that record on and then you used

to go to a booth perhaps put the headphones on then buy it. Acting all cool.

Who remembers that and Radio Caroline.

Who remembers this.

 

Pirate Radio Jingles from the 1960's and 70's

 

Filcin

I had a massive collection of all sorts going right back to the beginning of the sixties. I advertised them

locally for free to either a private collector or a commercial business.

The man who came to claim them had to go away and come back with a Transit and someone

to help him as the boxes wouldn't fit in his Range Rover and each box was too heavy for one to lift.

 

Such a shame and good grief were you a DJ.

 

reallymadwoman

Not strictly about vinyl, but an abiding memory is sitting on the steps of the (closed) local shop on Sunday

evening with the portable radio, listening to the new top 40, a whole crowd of us all singing along to our

favourites and then the moment of anticipation when the countdown approached number 1.

As soon as the programme was over we'd all be outside the off licence waiting for them to open, dead on the dot of 7,

so we could spend our 10p pocket money on

sweets before getting home only a few minutes after the 'school night' curfew.

 

A fine memory,and a very clear memory of childhood.

So we have dusted a few memories off and i bet other memories are flooding back as well.

Let them out,write them down and put them here.Hungry for peoples memories.

 

And a tune while you get your quills,pens,pencils out and tap away on the keyboard to tell us all your memories of records,vinyl,days gone by anything you want.

Sheesh Kebab rather a long post.OOPS.

Well i started writing this at sunrise if i carry on it will be sunset.

Which reminds me of a record.

Eagles Tequilla Sunrise-no City girls wow,those city girls,memories.I am off.

EAGLES ~ "LYIN' EYES" 1977

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeNBspJGVko

[hightail]

Loving this thread! Spent hours in the record shop in the booth listening to records I couldn't afford to buy. They used to be so tolerant. Remember being in awe of the cool kids claiming they never bought singles and wondering how they could afford albums. Remember misguided relatives buying me those awful 'Hits of.....' compilation albums for Christmas which weren't the original artists. Strange how I look on them with fondness now.

 

 

I love the ritual of vinyl, the care you take, the respect you had for something tangible yet fragile. I do enjoy having thousands of tracks instantly available on one tiny little electronic box but it doesn't feel like being a part of it the same.

[Tawnyowl]

havinastella

I noticed they were selling vinyl records in Sainsbury's yesterday!

 

Well the way this thread is going and the way i am feeling at the moment it will not be long before old Tawnyowl will be heading there.

Wonder if they have record players stacked alongside.Makes business sense.

And probably i will head to the carboots etc this summer with a new enthusiasm.That and a stack of record players.

Maybe clear out a few online auction sites.

Business thoughts again Shush owl do not let anyone know.

 

hightail

Loving this thread! Spent hours in the record shop in the booth listening to records I couldn't afford to buy.

They used to be so tolerant. Remember being in awe of the cool kids claiming they

never bought singles and wondering how they could afford albums.

Remember misguided relatives buying me those awful 'Hits of.....' compilation albums for Christmas which weren't

the original artists. Strange how I look on them with fondness now.

 

 

I love the ritual of vinyl, the care you take, the respect you had for something tangible yet fragile.

I do enjoy having thousands of tracks instantly available on one tiny little electronic box but it doesn't feel

like being a part of it the same.

 

Yes the record booths.They were very tolerant when you look back.You asked on they went as many as you liked.

Always bought one at the end.Remember playing Popcorn, before it went into the charts.

Went very high.

Nice post hightail i bet your post has brought back many memories for people.

Now if no one else writes in the next hour or so,i will put another few memories on.I will,i will,i will.

Does not matter how small the post it brings back memories for people.

Strange how many memories are brought back by vinyl.

[martin2006]

Once had an old Max Bygraves album

 

Think we used it to serve pizza one night!!

[hightail]

Wasn't it the fashion to make fruit bowls out of ruined albums? Ranked alongside a lamp made from a Mateus Rose bottle for crimes against good taste

[martin2006]

Had many coloured vinyl singkes and albums and picture discs

Sad cafe: Everyday hurts (picture)

Squeeze: up the junction (purple)

Cozy powell: Dance with the devil (red)

Banana splits : (yellow)

ELO : All over the world (10" blue)

ELO : Out of the blue (black) was rarer in black as most were blue vinyl

Barry White : cant get enough of your love (white)

UK subs: shes not there ( green)

 

Just the ones of the top if my head but had loads more

[martin2006]

As the Eagles have made an appearance it seems only right that i should add my absolute fave record of all time.

Make a brew and when it gets to 4:20 just sit back and enjoy

 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lrfhf1Gv4Tw

[hightail]

I was lucky enough to see them in Manchester when they toured a couple of years ago

[martin2006]

Coming from manchester myself i am devastated that i missed out, didnt know they were on or would have been first in the queue

[silverfox1961]

Ah memories (what I am able to remember)

 

In my youth I used to work with a disco, 2 bands and a big band, mainly as a roadie but with the disco, the DJ rarely touched the decks. I was the one to queue up the records or tapes and the DJ introducing them.. It is in these times I found I quite liked lager (being 14 at the time). One of the bands I worked with loved getting me on stage to move the drums back into place only to kick them over, forcing me to go back on or attaching strings to guitars after one (or more) broke. One year, the disco backed up the band at the Royal Festival Hall. The band got little or no appreciation and were 'encouraged' to leave the stage so the disco could come back on. Free food and worst of all, free drink. I was then 16 and not a lightweight when it came to alcohol but I was ratted halfway through the night. Good times.

 

The first record I bought was Scott Fitzgerald and Yvonne Keeley with 'If I had words'. At the time I played it to death but nowadays, it is an irritating noise although I had to chuckle when it was sung at the end of the file Babe by mice.

 

One other song I bought never really saw the light of day as it was very rude. The Winkers song (misprint) by Iver Biggun and the Red Nosed Burglars. While we are on that subject, does anyone remember the song by Jasper Carrott, 'Funky Moped'? Did you ever play the B side

[martin2006]

Magic roundabout by any chance SF?

 

Oh p@"&£ off said dillon!!! Hahaha

[silverfox1961]

 

Oh p@"&£ off said dillon!!! Hahaha

 

So he did, all over Florence.

[martin2006]

[maroondevo52]

Silverfox did you have to wind up your record player