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Post by sepiatone on Mar 15, 2023 16:57:23 GMT
I remember running across this one perusing the LP bins in the local Spartan discount store in the early '60's. :format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-3397882-1375249228-6074.jpeg.jpg) I tried to buy it but was told I wasn't old enough.  Sepiatone |
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Post by I Love Melvin on Mar 15, 2023 22:53:15 GMT
I tried to buy it but was told I wasn't old enough. Sepiatone Remember this lady? Something else we weren't old enough for.  And this guy worked pretty blue too.  |
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Post by I Love Melvin on Mar 16, 2023 12:59:32 GMT
And remember this? There was a whole string of them.  |
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Post by sepiatone on Mar 16, 2023 14:49:51 GMT
I tried to buy it but was told I wasn't old enough. Sepiatone Remember this lady? Something else we weren't old enough for. And this guy worked pretty blue too. Sure. What "boomer" kid back then could forget Rusty's "Itty Bitty Titty Committee"? Or Redd's F-u-g-g soap? My buddy and me liked to sneak listens to this off color LP of his dad's.  Sepiatone |
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Post by Lucky Dan on Mar 16, 2023 18:36:51 GMT
And remember this? There was a whole string of them. |
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Post by I Love Melvin on Mar 21, 2023 12:39:45 GMT
Controlled madness, that is. This is the only album of theirs I bought but I still hear it in my head sometimes.  This was one of the best of that era and the cover was too. :format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-11244091-1512610495-4207.jpeg.jpg) Different artist but another memorable cover. 
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Post by I Love Melvin on Mar 21, 2023 13:14:22 GMT
"Picture discs" were a thing for a while, where the record itself was the cover art, packaged in a clear plastic sleeve. I bought this one for the stupid fun of it but it never spent a lot of time on the turntable. :format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-771812-1164462442.jpeg.jpg) |
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Post by galacticgirrrl on Mar 23, 2023 20:56:13 GMT
Interesting. I don't know how I could totally forget about my best picture disc as it is filled with super strange memories beyond the album. For some crazy reason I was sent on a business trip to Madison Wisconsin at age 19. I was warned to not go out after dark!? But as girls of that age will want to do I did. I received one of the most important educations of my life. These are the two records I remember of my LP purchases during that adventure:  Playing on the record store's turntable was this split groove album. I had to immediately purchase a copy it was so odd. I don't know how widespread the use of split groove records was/is? They probably still make picture discs as well?  The B-side is referred to as "Neurology by TOPY" and features a double groove. The first groove features Topy's spokeman, the second groove is further separated by channels: Jim Jones's voice is heard on the right channel (BBa) and Charles Manson's voice of the left channel (BBb). If you put the needle anywhere on this side, you’ll never know before if you will hear Topy’s Spokesman or Jim Jones / Charles Manson. |
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Post by sepiatone on Mar 23, 2023 21:09:01 GMT
All I know about picture discs are the ones abuddy showed me that his parents bought back in the '40's. But Getting back to more "classic" LP covers.......  That's one ELP album I(for some unknown reason) never got around to buying. Sepiatone |
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Post by galacticgirrrl on Mar 23, 2023 22:32:29 GMT
>Sure. What "boomer" kid back then could forget Rusty's "Itty Bitty Titty Committee"? Interesting. Thank you both. Very helpful. I only know it as a great Beaches song lyric and now I see it is also a great looking comedy film - at least from the trailer. 38% on Rotten Tomatoes though, that could be problematic. And a Melbourne based GoGo girls group. Funny I only know Rusty Warren as Catherine O'Hara / Dusty Towne.  |
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Post by I Love Melvin on Mar 23, 2023 22:57:05 GMT
>Sure. What "boomer" kid back then could forget Rusty's "Itty Bitty Titty Committee"? Funny I only know Rusty Warren as Catherine O'Hara / Dusty Towne. How could you, Mrs. Dinkie? |
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Post by galacticgirrrl on Mar 24, 2023 0:42:48 GMT
There are so many great space related covers from when the idea was fresh and new....although a 3D-printed rocket may be inspiring new covers now. Ferrante & Teicher - Soundproof  Bobby Christian - Strings for a space age (1962)  Trip to Mars with Jack Parnell (1958)  Out there with Betty Carter (1958)  |
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Post by I Love Melvin on Mar 24, 2023 13:22:56 GMT
You should make a mix tape for Spacex passengers. Ah, when stereo was the new toy and everybody wanted it. I used to collect those crazy stereo demonstration records with every instrument known to man bouncing around from speaker to speaker. :format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-6333407-1557404903-2914.jpeg.jpg) The Command label was one of the biggest offenders/practitioners and Enoch Light and His Light Brigade hilariously over-orchestrated everything from classical to movie themes to discotheque.  |
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Post by sepiatone on Mar 24, 2023 17:04:54 GMT
Remember those freaky looking pictures you'd see everywhere in the late '80's-early '90's that required one to focus their eyes in certain ways to finally see the 3-D image? John McLaughlin used on for the "cover" of a CD jewel case back in '91.  Sepiatone |
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Post by galacticgirrrl on Mar 25, 2023 6:07:32 GMT
The stereo testing LPs reminds me of some hijinx conducted by my somewhat staid parents and conservative next-door neighbours one night, playing this LP at top volume with the front door open so the sound would travel all over the block. As a kid I was baffled but impressed.  This 1958 train locomotive sound recording is from the Audio Fidelity LP record titled "Railroad Sounds" - The Sounds of a Vanishing Era as diesel locomotives replaced steam models. 1958 was also the year that stereo records were introduced as a playback medium to the consumer masses, and could also be played on existing mono hi-fi systems and phonographs by replacing the original mono phono cartridge with a stereo cartridge that was strapped for combining the left and right output signals of the stereo cartridge into one channel of audio feed for the mono system to amplify. The reason the mono cartridges had to be replaced with strapped stereo cartridges is because the mono cartridge would destroy the stereo record grooves since it was not designed to play stereo records. There is always a fly in the ointment when trying to interface older technologies with new devices and inventions. Transferred to digital using stereo gear on background photo. |
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