Vinyls records - who remembers them ? 33 & 45 rpm

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Listened to this some minutes ago. Reminded me I've born at the end of the vinyls era - in the early 1980's. My parents had, and still have a truly antiquated (and very tired) turntable, must be half a century old now. In the 1970's they bought records aplenty: Simon & Garfunkel, Pink Floyd, Mike Oldfield, Cat Stevens...

...and Stop the cavalry.

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I can clearly remember my elder sister playing 45 rpm at 33 rpm, and reverse. Just flick the switch. It was one of our (many) Bart and Lisa brats moments. Along with fireworks, driving the cats and hens crazy, and countless other silinesses.
Which made the songs sounds ugly, stupid or funny. This drove my parents crazy, so we did it mostly with bad 45 rpm records of no interest (The Schmurfs song at 33 rpm had Gargamel sounding like a brain retarded LMAO).
 
Hi Archibald, you are a real time machine, you have these ideas that jump off the thread of TSTO studies to Vinyls records 33 & 45 rpm. But since you're talking about that I remember a 45 disc which dates from 1977 in Marseille, as a teenager I was crazy about Laurent Voulzy's hit record "Rockollection", I told my older brother who currently lives in Germany to buy it from me, and he was the one who established the schedule between my brothers and sisters, the life of this disc did not exceed 15 days because it became unusable because of scratches. After that there was the story of the 33 rpm of "Village People In the Navy", which also had his story.
 
Ah yes, Rockollection. It is the one song that led to my discovery of The Beach Boys, because it has a bit of "I Get around" stuck into it. Laurent Voulzy and Alain Souchon have been friends and partners in music since 50 years at least. It is one of the most beautiful partnership and friendship in French music. They are like brothers.
 
33, 45 and 78. I had a gramaphone given to me when I was about seven or eight. Several Goons show albums. During a show and tell at the school a teacher decided the albums would be better as flower pots and had them away. Head teacher said, "It's done now, a bit late to put it right".
 
I can't remember because I haven't forgotten...
I still have several record players, some HiFi and some DJ type.

My record collection is rather varied, a lot of rock and pop classics from the 70's to the 90's and especially a collection dedicated to the credits of series and cartoons of my childhood (in local or Japanese version).
I still buy new pressings or re-releases as well as some finds in garage sales.
 
Vinyl is apparently making a comeback. A long time ago while short contract working, I went into a local town centre for a break. A stereo specialist had some of the most wonderful sounding gear I have ever heard. Vinyl on a vacuum tube setup with gold contacts and proper isolating base units. Back in 1989, this setup was going for twenty four thousand pounds Sterling. Magic sounds though and if I had the money, I still would.
 
They started selling LP's at my local supermarket.... Never have done that before...There are like two small stores in the wider vicinity that exclusively sell LP's.. Strange times...
 
I still have my vinyl. I have very good turntable, stereo tube amp and a pair of very good speakers, I switch between the vinyl and digital when listening to music; jazz/jazz fusion and progressive rock.
 
My parents vinyls are still in good shape but the turntable is mostly toast - it always was, as far as I can remember. My sisters and I are looking for a brand new one. Any idea for a good brand, at what cost ?
 
Hi,

Foo Fighter said:
33, 45 and 78.
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There was also 16 2/3 rpm, but from reading it up now, that seems to have been a format that never really took off - probably the low speed sacrificed too much quality, but I never saw (or listened to) one of these.

78 rpm technically wasn't for "vinyl" records, but for shellack ones - admittedly, "vinyl" has become a slightly over-specific term for the extremely generic "record", so I only add this for a bit of extra colour :) I never saw a 78 rpm record played either, but as a kid, I was quite impressed by the stories my mother told me about shellac records splintering into hundreds of shards when dropped.

Regards,

Henning (HoHun)
 
Hi,

Archibald said:
My parents vinyls are still in good shape but the turntable is mostly toast - it always was, as far as I can remember. My sisters and I are looking for a brand new one. Any idea for a good brand, at what cost ?
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With older ones, the problem often is a deteriorated (as in "fallen to bits") drive belt. In that case, it might be possible to find a reasonbly similar O ring as a replacement ... my father's turntable runs on an air intake duct seal now, or something like that.

Regards,

Henning (HoHun)
 
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