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Calling fellow music lovers!

I have been listening to or involved in music since I was 11!


Having just joined this site I was wondering if any other people remember using all different formats of recording and playing music what hifi equipment musical instruments etc?


I listen to and played everything and anything throughout the years and miss chatting about all things musical!


Is it just me or are there lots of others out there?


Created By on 25/01/2019

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Gk59
11th Mar 2019 21:38:47
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Hi David,

Music has played a big part in my life. One memory that makes me smile is trying to record the Top 20 on a Sunday night with a cassette recorder. Hoping Mum didn’t come in and start talking! Finger hovering over the stop button towards the end of the song, then over the start button. Hoping the DJ wouldn’t talk over the music!
Response from UKtraveller made on 12th Mar 2019 10:53:58
As they often did! Your reminiscing made me smile, Gk

Oh and I've just missed all of Popmaster, again!

Uk
CaroleAH
17th Jun 2019 17:27:02
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I have just found three programmes from concerts which I attended in the 1960s. A centre stalls seat on row D, to see the Beach Boys, cost 12/6d and the supporting acts included David & Jonathan ("Michelle" and "Lovers of the World Unite") and Lulu who sang "Shout". I also saw Billy J Kramer and the Dakotas (cost 10/6d) in May 1964 and their supporting acts included Millie, singing "My Boy Lollipop", The Purple Hearts, The Five Embers and Peter Jay and the Jaywalkers. Pride of place in my collection is the programme from a concert starring The Beatles which took place at the Odeon in Leeds. The Vernon Girls, The Kestrels, The Brook Brothers, Frank Berry and Peter Jay and the Jaywalkers also appeared. I cannot remember anything which the Beatles sang as most of the girls in the audience were screaming and drowned out the music! Those were the days! 🙂
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25th Feb 2019 08:59:31 (Last activity: 1st Mar 2019 10:37:33)
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Response from CaroleAH made on 27th Feb 2019 20:42:37
Hi Yodama,
I had never heard of Ketty Lester but have just listened to her on Youtube - what a wonderful voice - no wonder you used to listen to her as a love-sick teenager! 🙂
Response from CaroleAH made on 1st Mar 2019 10:37:33
Hi Yodama, think that "Love Letters" sung by Brenda Lee would fit the bill. Pat Boone also sang "Love letters in the sand" about a lost love and of course "Return to Sender" by Elvis on the same theme! I had a boyfriend who was in the army in Aden and oh the joy when his letters arrived! That's more than 50 years ago - eeek! Where do the years go 🙂
Steerpike
24th Feb 2019 11:41:10 (Last activity: 27th Feb 2019 20:20:41)
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As a kid growing up in the fifties the go to device was my parents Ferguson Radiogram. This gigantic chunk of furniture was to me a piece of genuine magic. I remember turning the massive Bacolite dials and hearing disembodied and foreign tongues for the first time materialising out of thin air. Radio Luxembourg which famously faded in and out, my mate Martins Mum said it was because of the wind! There was a compartment at one end of the radiogram which held a bunch of 78’s. These comprised everything from Elvis and Bill Haley to classical music.

The Ferguson was in our household for years and was key in cultivating my love and appreciation for all types of music. By 1967 of course, Bacolite had given way to vinyl and my life changed when I bought Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band, places it upon the Ferguson deck and lowered the needle, not a stylus, a needle that was basically a 1 inch nail, onto the disc. The sounds that came out of that 12” speaker completely ‘blew my mind’ to use the parlence of the day and this was before I experienced stereo! What that needle did to my albums (my collection grew rather quickly) doesn’t bear thinking about but then it wasn’t about sound quality, it was all about the music.

The question, ‘what was the first record you ever bought? is always a good one to ask. In my case I saw a film by Stanly Kubrick called Grande Prix. I loved the music and sought out the soundtrack. The only place that sold it was my local Rumbelows. They had one of those revolving carousels with LP’s on board, mostly of the Music For Pleasure variety. There was the album entitled Grande Prix. Back home I eagerly went through that long lamented ritual of removing the album from the bag, the sleeve from the cover, the record from the sleeve and finally dropping the needle on the record. No music was forthcoming but various recording of F1 racing cars speeding around circuits at various locations around the world.......even that was fascinating to me, that these sounds could leap out at me from this piece of plastic and fuel my imagination.

These days my passion for music has seen me try my hand at songwriting, recording and performing my songs, live to an audience. It all started with that radiogram.
Response from SilverBlue made on 24th Feb 2019 17:21:15
Hi Steerpike welcome to the site, your post took me back, I remember Sgt Pepper LP, and my grandparents had a huge radiogram which I wasn’t allowed to touch. Lovely memories of another time.
Response from CaroleAH made on 24th Feb 2019 23:09:13
The very first record which I bought as a present for my parents was an LP of John Ogdon playing Rachmaninov's 2nd Piano Concerto. I can remember the joy of receiving record vouchers for £1.00 for birthdays and Christmas and being to buy three 45rpm records which, at that time, were 6s 8d each. There was so much great music in the 60s - we were spoilt for choice. These days my musical taste is eclectic and varies from the classics, especially opera and great choral works to Neil Diamond, Roy Orbison, Abba, John Denver and some of Leonard Cohen's songs although they can be a bit "dark". The Scots Dragoon Guards playing 'Highland Cathedral' usually brings a tear to my eye as does Kim Borg singing Judex from Gounod's "Mors et Vita".
Response from CaroleAH made on 25th Feb 2019 17:46:57
Hi Lochinvar! Well, I have heard of Lady Gaga but not Tom Chaplin or Lana del Ray and don't know any of their music. Think I must be stuck in the 60s time-warp! 🙂 Perhaps I ought to broaden my horizons.
Response from UKtraveller made on 25th Feb 2019 18:27:22
Tom Chaplin was the lead singer with the group, Keane, Carole.
Response from CaroleAH made on 25th Feb 2019 20:19:57
Dare I admit that I haven't heard of Keane either? 🙂
Response from UKtraveller made on 26th Feb 2019 08:36:51
The phrase. Oh! Carol comes to mind!
Response from CaroleAH made on 26th Feb 2019 09:58:34
UKtraveller, you have made me smile which is always a good start to the day! 🙂
Response from UKtraveller made on 27th Feb 2019 08:50:59
Aim to please. Lovely sunny day here this morning again. Rachmaninov's 2nd Piano Concerto is near the top of my list classical pieces but 60's pop was very much my era too. So who were your favorite bands back then?
Response from CaroleAH made on 27th Feb 2019 09:07:23
Probably the Beatles - I went to see them in Leeds. See being the operative word as we could hardly hear them because all the girls were screaming! Also saw the Dave Clarke Five, Stevie Wonder, Martha and the Vandellas (love Dancing in the Streets) and the Beach Boys. The Dubliners were also a favourite band and I have seen Neil Diamond live more recently - think he is my absolute favourite singing Forever in Blue Jeans and I am, I said..
Response from UKtraveller made on 27th Feb 2019 20:20:41
Some of my favorite groups from the 60's:

Love Affair
Dave, Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Titch
Turtles
Marmalade
The Four Seasons
The Hollies
Bee Gees
Moody Blues
Pink Floyd
Four Tops

The list could go on and on. The music industry was thrown a life line with the emergence of pirate radio, London, Caroline etc. My favorite pirate radio DJ was Johnnie Walker.

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