45’s/singles

wow this taking me back, buying a stylus for the turntable arm, remember that? There was a record shop that had listening booths, I thought myself so grown up to use them.

then cassettes came along...

I'm more embarrassed than you. Acker Bilk's Stranger On The Shore. It cost me 6s 8d (around 34p). 

The record shops with listening booths were the place to go on a Saturday afternoon.

I always bought 3x45s  each thursday (payday)for a pound ,still got many

ps £8 -8 shillings ,good shift money in 1960 

I remember when I started buying them they were 45p from Boots

Showaddywaddy - Under the moon of love (2nd hand).    First new one - Silver Lady, David Soul 🤭

We used to buy ex-jukebox singles from the market in town.    New ones came from the local record shop or Woolies cos they were cheaper! 

Russ conway  side saddle  my first record i purchased in 1959 and if you put a broadsheet newspaper page over the piano wires at home it gave you a snare drum backing? when playing it on the piano

My first, I think was ‘Needles And Pins’, likewise 6s 8p.

I too built a quite sizeable LP collection. When the 80’s came I gradually built up a CD collection, often buying ones I already had on vinyl. So, the turntable was consigned to the loft. The wife wanted me to ditch all my old vinyl. I’m glad I didn’t as a couple of years ago I decided, on a whim really, to set up a new HiFi system, including getting my old (Rega) turntable upgraded. It sounds wonderful 🙂

You play piano?

I should add...

I had a stack of 45’s, probably hundreds. Foolishly, I flogged all of them, around ‘70, including some that I sold to a school friend. I didn’t see him for many years, until we got reacquainted at work. In more recent times, he became ill, so I used to visit him at his home and among other things, we used to talk about music, favourite bands/albums, that kinda thing. He reminded me that he still had my old singles, and on a subsequent visit, he gave them back to me, after a gap of maybe 50 years? I treasure those, particularly so because not long after, he succumbed to his illness. He was a good friend, who I still miss.