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I kept one of these in the dash tray of my Honda Element for several years. Whenever someone picked it up and asked what it was, I replied that it was an old age and wisdom test, and you failed. Then one of the female pop stars that was all over the TV set 15 years or so ago wore a gold plated example on her necklace as she sung something on TV. I can't remember who, or exactly when that happened, but I took it out of my vehicle at the time.
I got a bottle of 12 year old Balvenie as part of my retirement present. It's quite nice.
My son-in-law just gave me a bottle of the Balvenie 14 year old Caribbean Cask that had been given to him by a client. Haven't tried it yet, but looking forward to it when one of my Scotch drinking friends comes to visit.
We never saw the format war and all records here had the small hole. Was it the same in Italy?
Many teenagers here in the 60s had a player for 45 rpm records. They were the hot singles from the radio that they all wanted to hear, over and over. Some players used a large diameter adapter spindle that fitted over the thin one, so the little 45 insert wasn't needed.
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See? All you have to do is shine the light in their eyes and you can bag them real easy!
That right there is the sign of the devil! Designed for that Rock and Roll music.
I had a bag full of them in the late 60's and early 70's. I had two sources for free 45 RPM singles. One was a DJ at a radio station, and the other was the guy who drove around in a van changing the records in many of the leased juke boxes in the South Miami area. I would pick through all the stuff they were "returning" and take what I wanted. To help keep the numbers right, I gave the juke box guy the stuff I grew tired of. The problem with this kind of free music was that it was mostly all popular music, disco, and Latin (Spanish) music. I still have about a hundred 45's. Most are well worn. If liked music enough to buy it, I bought the LP and took good care of them.
By the mid 70's I bought all of my own music, all of which was LP, or quadraphonic music on reel to reel tape. The old Garrard Zero 100 had died an ugly death at the hands (paws) of a lovable but clumsy cat named "Fat Cat" in 1979, so I bought a shiny new Technics SL-D2 at one of those catalog showroom stores, either Luria's or Service Merchandise. It came with its own drop over the spindle plastic adapter, so the "yellow spiders" were no longer needed I still have and use the SL-D2 today. Unlike the Zero 100 which always needed attention, the 45 year old Technics just works.
Starting with that hit single from Chuck Berry in 1958!
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We had some of those when my family owned a country roadhouse with a Seeburg jukebox in the 70's. We'd get singles from the guy who changed the records and obviously needed the insert to play them. I still have only one; David Bowie's 'Sorrow'.
Well, no, and I realize once again how huge the musical and hardware gap was compared to the Anglo-Saxon and American world...
Impressive, really!
As far as I remember, our youthful experience was based almost exclusively on 45s of Italian pop music (so-called "musica leggera") and at least in my area, very little came from overseas at the time.
Then came FM radio, which emancipated us all, but that's another story.
Then we "discovered" 33,3s, which were too expensive for our pockets, but somehow we managed to buy them anyway, even if not many, and above all we continued with those 33s played on the Reader's Digest turntable (really a system), which at least at our age and in our area started the history of audio.
It was sold by mail order in installments that no one ever completed...
45s needed an adapter and almost all real turntables bought after that had the short cylindrical one.
I remember the adapters very well although with a different shape, and I also remember the so-called "eater-records" players that were 45s only and, portable! 😍
My first real 33rpm turntable was a BSR, followed by a Garrard...
Yes, I know of some exceptions (33 1/3, two tracks per side), but it's hard for me to believe that the Australian phono industry in toto conflicted with the RCA Victor standard for records like these (45/min, one track per side, 7" outer dia, 1½" hole dia). Really?
Btw, adapter spindles like these in #3510 were very common with record changers of German origin. The first 12" changer of manufacturer Dual, the 1219, was stock equipped with one when it saw the light of the market in 1969.
Best regards!
Kay, I might be mistaken but I thought the larger holes were partially to create incompatibility. I hear they were also to avoid reaming but we had record changers with the small spindle and no problem. Many were also made here. Virtually all were selectable speed, many offering four speeds.