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Post by mickthecactus on Oct 31, 2017 10:41:31 GMT
Youngest grandson Joe is an avid vinyl collector
He acquired a heap of old records that belonged to his great grandmother but hadn't done much with them. At the weekend he checked them over and came across one by The Seekers. Being unfamiliar with them he thought he would have a listen but on taking the record out of the sleeve it turned out not to be The Seekers but the Beatles Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band! He was absolutely delighted! Shame he doesn't have the sleeve though.
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Post by questa on Oct 31, 2017 12:34:06 GMT
Great grandmother had Beatles and Seekers albums?? No wonder you are so groovy...or are you more the Acker Bilk sort of chap.
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Post by tod2 on Oct 31, 2017 13:20:44 GMT
Mick is there no possibility the Seekers LP is mixed up with another record sleeve. Looks like he will have to investigate them all.
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Post by mickthecactus on Oct 31, 2017 13:37:53 GMT
No, he's checked all the other ones. Says it's all "gypsy" music!
Questa I don't think the Seekers actually belonged to her. I just think it might have been left there by somebody donkey's years ago.,
I don't mind Acker Bilk.........
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Post by bixaorellana on Oct 31, 2017 16:00:31 GMT
Ha ha ~ Mick, you need to listen to one of the "gypsy" records to find out if it's indeed gypsy or something else entirely.
Lucky kid, though, with an original Sgt. Pepper's.
And good grief ~ haven't thought about Acker Bilk in eons. I remember he was always introduced as Mr. Acker Bilk.
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Post by patricklondon on Oct 31, 2017 17:48:20 GMT
And good grief ~ haven't thought about Acker Bilk in eons. I remember he was always introduced as Mr. Acker Bilk. Dear oh Lor', I can remember the TV series that "Stranger on the Shore" was the sig tune for.... And I have a copy of Revolver, and what looks like EMI's cash-in double-LP compilation of earlier Beatles hits. My blog | My photos | My video clips My Librivox | "too literate to be spam"
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Oct 31, 2017 19:25:24 GMT
We kept all our vinyl. A few years ago I bought OH a 'record to cd converter'. However I don't get that frisson of excitement that comes when you carefully ease a record out of it's glorious sleeve...whip off the inner paper sleeve....carefully balance the vinyl disc between your hands (not touching the surface at all...just the edge)tilting the record in the light to inspect for dust or (HORROR) scratches (wipe if necessary with EXPENSIVE cloth)...gently lay on the turntable...select the speed and guide the highly engineered stylus onto the record WITHOUT jolting it...faaaaabulous....
Alternatively...open cd case...remove from case....shove it in the cd player...hmph.
The only Beatles album we have is Sargeant Peppers and that's a repress...OH has one by John Lennon and Yoko Ono that consists of Yoko screaming and that one's quite rare but we never play it (because). My eldest would probably like to inherit the some of the albums because they will remind him of his childhood...things like Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds and Pink Floyd...but I guess my James Taylor, Cat Stevens, Eagles, Free, Yes and Lynyrd Skynnyrd etc will go to a charity shop or the tip...you never know tho.
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Post by mickthecactus on Oct 31, 2017 20:01:22 GMT
We kept all our vinyl. A few years ago I bought OH a 'record to cd converter'. However I don't get that frisson of excitement that comes when you carefully ease a record out of it's glorious sleeve...whip off the inner paper sleeve....carefully balance the vinyl disc between your hands (not touching the surface at all...just the edge)tilting the record in the light to inspect for dust or (HORROR) scratches (wipe if necessary with EXPENSIVE cloth)...gently lay on the turntable...select the speed and guide the highly engineered stylus onto the record WITHOUT jolting it...faaaaabulous.... Alternatively...open cd case...remove from case....shove it in the cd player...hmph. The only Beatles album we have is Sargeant Peppers and that's a repress...OH has one by John Lennon and Yoko Ono that consists of Yoko screaming and that one's quite rare but we never play it (because). My eldest would probably like to inherit the some of the albums because they will remind him of his childhood...things like Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds and Pink Floyd...but I guess my James Taylor, Cat Stevens, Eagles, Free, Yes and Lynyrd Skynnyrd etc will go to a charity shop or the tip...you never know tho. No! Send them to Joe! He’ll have all of them!
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Post by questa on Nov 1, 2017 0:04:11 GMT
My former husband was a taxi owner/driver. Back in the late 60s, each Saturday he would drive an 80 year old mother to visit her son in a sheltered accommodation place, wait and drive her home after an hour's visit. He did not charge for waiting...said he was "doing paperwork". One day the mother came out from her visit pulling a trolley full of paper-sleeved 78rpm records. Son had declared they were 'sinful and works of the devil' and mother was to destroy them. She thought that would be a waste so gave them to my ex and me. Fortunately we had a record player which played 78s because the collection was jazz and big band music. Lots of Fats Waller, Dorsey, Woody Herman...yes - Golden Wedding, Bob Crosby, Glenn Miller, Artie Shaw, Ellington, Satchmo etc.
Eventually I passed them on to another jazz fan...I wonder what has happened to them.
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Post by kerouac2 on Nov 1, 2017 4:55:06 GMT
I still have all of my vinyl, including most of the Beatles albums. I need to buy a turntable and amp.
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Post by tod2 on Nov 1, 2017 5:31:48 GMT
Oh Kerouac, if we did not live so far apart I would gladly hand over a turntable & amplifier stored somewhere in my garage. I am sure it is a Garrard. The speakers (Tanoy)are in my lounge connected to a CD player. All bought in Singapore years ago.
I have about 25 LP's of various artists but at least 3 are Francoise Hardy. And then my mother left me a complete set of orchestral LP's which I think are Mantovani Orchestral numbers. They are unused and in their own album 'box'.
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Post by mickthecactus on Nov 1, 2017 8:36:14 GMT
My son took all my vinyl collection (including my parents collection) many years ago but looks after them carefully. He is a weekend old fashioned DJ and often makes use of them.
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Post by kerouac2 on Nov 1, 2017 10:05:36 GMT
Just so long as they stay in the family!
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Post by questa on Nov 1, 2017 12:23:58 GMT
I will second that, Kerouac. I have regretted passing on my 78s and 45s but moving from a big family home to a smaller home unit...lots of things had to go.
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Post by bixaorellana on Nov 1, 2017 15:31:59 GMT
questa, your sharing ended up enriching the lives of who knows how many people. I feel a certain amount of envy for Mick's Joe because he is getting to hear all that music with the fresh excitement of its being new for him. mickthecactus, what do you mean by "old fashioned DJ" -- is that the kind who chooses and plays music on the radio?
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Post by mickthecactus on Nov 1, 2017 17:36:43 GMT
So here’s your chance guys. Who should young Joe listen to? He already has quite a wide appreciation. He has all the obvious like Beatles, Stones, Who, Frank Sinatra etc. Pretty much anything goes for him.
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Post by cheerypeabrain on Nov 1, 2017 22:22:53 GMT
When I was a girl we had an ancient wind up record player (with a horn for the sound to come out!) My Dad had a few very delicate records (78s)....my sisters, brother and I were allowed two..one was a drinking song that I shall search the web for...and the other was Jussi Bjorling singing 'Your Tiny Hands are Frozen' from La Boheme (no accents on my letters sorry...using a kindle fire to post)...I think..it was a long time ago...
We used to carry the machine up onto the huge outhouse roof on hot summer days and play them over and over....gosh we must have been unpopular....
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Post by questa on Nov 1, 2017 22:23:12 GMT
I would be checking out the "gypsy music". Imagine finding a long-lost pile of Stephane Grappelli and Django Reinhardt stuff!
And, as ever, Bixa shows me the positives of what I saw as a negative situation. Thanks again, Bixa.
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Post by mickthecactus on Nov 2, 2017 8:32:32 GMT
I would be checking out the "gypsy music". Imagine finding a long-lost pile of Stephane Grappelli and Django Reinhardt stuff! And, as ever, Bixa shows me the positives of what I saw as a negative situation. Thanks again, Bixa. That's a thought. We shall check it out t the weekend.
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Post by mickthecactus on Nov 2, 2017 8:37:47 GMT
questa, your sharing ended up enriching the lives of who knows how many people. I feel a certain amount of envy for Mick's Joe because he is getting to hear all that music with the fresh excitement of its being new for him. mickthecactus, what do you mean by "old fashioned DJ" -- is that the kind who chooses and plays music on the radio? No, he uses vinyl and turntables rather than all computerised. Works in local pubs and clubs and gets about £100 a time which is handy.
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Post by mickthecactus on Nov 7, 2017 14:13:15 GMT
Well we checked them all through and no surprises. The Gypsy one wasn't music by Gypsies but a classical album of Slavonic dances. Everything else was Classical other than a couple of show tune records and a couple of Merle Haggard records which he'll have a listen to.
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Post by kerouac2 on Nov 7, 2017 14:47:16 GMT
I always think it's funny how there are always a few oddities in record collections, often a source of considerable embarrassment when somebody comes across them. I knew a big fan of hard rock who was also in love with The Carpenters. He would always try to find some way to justify it but hey, the expression "there's no accounting for taste" fits just about everything.
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