Hey everbody, want to see my neat-o vintage record player

[Longgrain]

No reason, just bored, I wanted you to see my cool retro record player that I bought at a flea market last summer for 15 bucks...this thing still runs on vacuum tubes baby...







It still works too, just kind of muffled, but I still use it when I'm in the mood. It's even got a rotating needle so you play LP, 45s, and 78s! Talk about high tech!






And it adds ambiance to any happening singles pad...at least until my mom tells me to turn it down...







Of course we'll need some Lounge music. Should we go swinging with Sinatra, or get introspective with Dylan?






Oh that's right, today's Friday, December 10...Come on get happy!









;-)

[BeHereNow]

1. Oh My GOD! I have the same one!

I collect- 78 players and stereos
I have the EXACT same model in
my garage...
cool.
I wish I knew how to post pictures!
I would share my collection with you!
BHN

[SCRUBDASHRUB]

5. I love your Hi-Fi! Very cool!

All you need is some orange shag carpet and you'll be 'good to go'!

[Longgrain]

23. Yeah...

My family bought the house used back in the early 90s and the room hasn't been redecorated since the previous owners did it, I'm guessing in the 70s.

Me I love it. That's authentic fake wood paneling there...

[fishnfla]

2. say cat, that is one groovy machine

watch out it dont catch afire next to that oven.

[LSparkle]

3. OMG I had that Partridge Family LP!

The hi-fi looks a lot like the one my family had growing up, too. Thanks for the flashback!

[BlueJazz]

4. Pretty Cool.

Just be careful of your albums. I'll bet that tone arm tracks at about 2 ounces!
We used to call that type of record player a "Lathe" :)

[Longgrain]

7. My albums

are mostly crap that I bought at flea markets, I have a much more modern stereo for playing any real music, the vintage one is mostly for decoration.

[LSparkle]

8. Did you ever see the needles on some of those things?

Look like tacks!

[Longgrain]

12. Yep this on has three needles on the arm

sort of a rotating switch for use in changing speed. The 45 needle won't work on a 33.

[Kire]

6. Is that Jessica Simpson on vinyl?

Where'd you get that?

[SCRUBDASHRUB]

9. Er...Nancy Sinatra.

As in "These boots are made for walkin'"

[Longgrain]

10. A local Flea market

I asked the guy how much and he said fifteen buck so I bought it thinking maybe it didn't work or something...to my surprise it worked!

[fluffernutter]

14. great find for a great price!

:yourock:

[Longgrain]

21. I know a bargan when i see one...

Keep um coming...

[BeHereNow]

16. Yeah, you got a good deal!

I think I paid $75.00 for mine!
bhn

[Deja Q]

22. I first thought it was Britney Spears, but vinyl has been dead since 1994.

It could only be Nancy Sinatra: Rubber stamp 'hottie chick' image.

[fluffernutter]

11. for sure The Partridge Family, i loved that album

my little brother bought it for me one Christmas as a kid, lol! ahh, the memories...

[Longgrain]

17. Then I'll have to serenade you

with a Partridge Family Song from that same record

Can't get her out of my mind, I see her face wherever I go
She didn't say it but I know she doesn't love me
I thought that I was king, she didn't want to play my game
If I had the sun to give her in the morning

She'd rather have the rain
Than anything I could give her
I'd give her anything that you care to name
She'd rather have the rain

Today I had to realize that every dream just can't come true
I know there's nothing I can do to make her want me
I could take the sun from heaven, tie it to a silver chain
Bring it so it shines upon her through the morning

She'd rather have the rain
Than anything I could give her
I'd give her anything that you care to name
She'd rather have the rain


When you need somebody, you want to give her everything
But it hurts when she doesn't hear the song that you sing

She'd rather have the rain
Than anything I could give her
I'd give her anything that you care to name
She'd rather have the rain


Rather have the rain, rather have the rain, rather have the rain


;-) or maybe you'd rather have me put my black fedora on and sing you some Sinatra...

[fluffernutter]

19. swoon

i loved that song. LOVED it!

hmm, that hat thing sounds nice too ;)

are you kiddin me, do you really sing too?

[Longgrain]

24. No. I sing terribly

Can't act either...

Or Play an instument...

My God I wish I was talented at something...:cry:











;)

[fluffernutter]

25. shut up!

you ooze talent.

i am not half the artist you are, but i can sing and act ;)

[Longgrain]

26. Your slagging in you typing skills as well I see...

:P

[fluffernutter]

28. slagging?

i am also getting ready to go to a xmas party, woohoo :toast:

[Longgrain]

31. Sounds fun...

So i guess you'll miss my big 6-o-o...

One more record from my collection, because I'm so vain...



I probally thought this thread was about me...and my groovy record player...

[ronnykmarshall]

13. That is groovy!

[fishnfla]

15. is that a laura branigan album on the floor there?

the lounge goes nuts!

[Longgrain]

18. Yep!

The late Laura Branagan (RIP)

You want the lounge to go nuts? How about a "Gloria" singalong


Calling Gloriaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

[fluffernutter]

20. wow, she was so beautiful.

[last_texas_dem]

27. Awesome player

Thanks for posting... I love this kind of stuff. The pad looks cool.

I collect records and currently only have one working turntable 'cause the one in my room has broken. It's driving me crazy not being able to play records in there!

Oh yeah, I see that Buddah record on the turntable. That wouldn't happen to be a 1910 Fruitgum Co. or Ohio Express LP, would it? I love Kasenatz-Katz bubblegum records; I'm probably one of the few people who wasn't eight years old in the late sixties (child of the eighties/ early nineties myself) to ever utter that statement! It's just catchy, enjoyable music to me.

[Longgrain]

29. Yeah,

I collect all kinds of weird vintage stuff, mostly from the 60s and 70s...I posted this on another forum, a box of flash cubes I bought at a flea market. The woman who sold them to me must have thought I was crazy to but them!

[Longgrain]

33. As for the Buddah record

It's the Brooklyn Bridge...you can see the cover slightly under the Laura Branagan cover...


"Giiirl I heard you're geting Married..."

P.S. I dig bubblegum music too...

[last_texas_dem]

37. Awesome

"Worst That Could Happen" is a cool song.

Those flashcubes are nice, too. I like to pick up random stuff like that at flea markets from time to time as well. My favorite is an eight-inch-or-so-high wooden hand flashing a peace sign that I picked up at a garage sale a couple of years ago.

[Longgrain]

38. Do you know this one...

By The Brooklyn Bridge...

"oh won't you welcome me love...
My name is loneley...
Tell that girl that I think of her only..."



"My kite/your kite" from the same album, is also a cool bubble-gum classic I like...

[last_texas_dem]

39. Yeah, I remember that one

That's a cool one. I picked up that album by Brooklyn Bridge in a batch of records a few years ago but haven't listened to it in a while. I may have to dig it out and give it a spin now that it's on my mind!

[Longgrain]

40. Since you seem to be into Bubble-gum

Know of "The Sunshine Company"? Kind of Spanky and The Gang wanna-bes--who were, in turn, Moma's and the Papa's wanna-be's?

[last_texas_dem]

41. Yeah

I know one song by them 'cause I have it on a 45: "Back on the Street Again." They have a pretty cool sound. Spanky and Our Gang are good, too. I guess I tend to like a lot of late-sixties/early-seventies pop in general!

[shesemsmom]

30. Oh yes,

there is nothing that sounds like them or smells like them. They have the oder of days gone by when the music plays. see what todays kids are missing today

[Longgrain]

32. And you can hear

the humming of the vacuum tubes as they warm up when you plug it in...It's so hot, it's cool...

[shesemsmom]

34. Yeah I sure miss mine. I gave up my old console for a decked out Pioneer

and it just ain't the same

[shesemsmom]

35. I loved to listen to the beach boys and the 4 seasons

and the moody blue and dylan on mine. JJEESS. I think I'm gonna cry. I want my console back

[Longgrain]

36. Anybody else...

Want to kick back, turn down the lights and mellow out with me?

[samplegirl]

42. Will i see you in September?

or lose you to a summer love?