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Young Neil Cassette

Jun 7, 2010 music cassettes
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Young Neil Cassette

Hi fellow seniors, do you still own a record player?

We have a roughly twenty years old Sony stack system featuring a record player, twin cassette deck and five spaced cd player.

I am very fond of it and will rue the day when it finally goes the way of all good things.

I like the sound and smell of our old scratchy vinyl records the oldest of them once belonging to my parents plus a couple of old 78's one being the skater's waltz.

I played an old 45 earlier on which was one of our early purchases,I wonder if you can recall Neil Young's 'Heart of Gold', I would post a link but the one I've found isn't a very good copy, I've also got some old 331/3 LP's which I love to listen to for old times sake.
Hubby groans as he would much prefer to play the more modern day remastered versions.

So can you and do you still like to play records?
@ John, yes thanks we may have one or two.

Yes, although stored away I have a lovely Portadyne Record Player, blue with gold stars and white with gold stars that I got when I was 10 about 51 years ago. Oh! how I loved it. I can even recall the evening my dad brought it home for me. At that time the red Dansette record players were all the rage and all my friends had there. The evening before my dad had raised the riot act and told me (obviously I had did something bad but I can't remember) in no uncertain terms I would NOT be getting a record player. To this day (he is almost 92) I don't know if his conscience bothered him that he had been too hard on me but next night he came back from work.....on his bike and managed to also bring this wonderful record player. Your question has now made me think I should ask him about that. Whether he'll remember or not I don't know but his mind is still excellent. I also recall the first record I ever got and it was Connie Francis...My Heart Has a Mind of it's Own. Thanks for a lovely memory.

Neil Young-"If You Got Love"(Trans Acetate...Island in the Sun)