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Author Topic: Vinyl record sales increase Charles Greenlee Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 801 From: Savannah, Ga, U.S. Registered: Jun 2006 posted 06-12-2008 09:54 PM                        I think I have a few from mags like Reader's Digest and some others floating around here somwhere. I also should have a few of their cardboard counterparts as well.  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 06-12-2008 10:00 PM                     Like "the Archies" 7 inch cardboard records that you cut off the back of POST Sugar Crisp cereal boxes in the early 70's - there was a set of 4 of these records that could be had. Of the Eva-Tone "soundsheets" - as they were called - I have a collector with the magazine: the Jan 1965 Nat'l Geographic Magazine on the tribute of Churchill's funeral with historical recordings, presented and narrated by David Brinkley from NBC.  |  IP: Logged Phil Hill I love my cootie bug Posts: 7595 From: Hollywood, CA USA Registered: Mar 2000 posted 06-13-2008 12:54 AM                  Somewhere I have a 1960's Mad magazine with the floppy record "She Got A Nose Job" (Disregard the dorky lip-sync video!) HA!  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 06-13-2008 02:29 AM                        Thanks for the explanation on the g thing. I've had some small, floppy records. I can't remember what they were, but they were colored, one-sided and had the same stiffness as your average sheet of printer paper. They played! Since I was a kid and not yet an audiophile, I didn't give a rat's ass how it sounded. I still think they should make a slot-loading turntable for your car for those who want to enjoy better sound than shitty-ass CDs on the road. Also, turntable walkman's & iPods! This is the reason SACD and DVD-A never caught on... no portability. You were forced to listen on your ass sitting at your main sound setup.  |  IP: Logged Damien Taylor Master Film Handler Posts: 493 From: Perth, Western Australia Registered: Apr 2007 posted 06-13-2008 03:05 AM                     They was a short lived run of ghetto blasters with turntables in them, obviously the high tracking force required made short work of the records. Although judging by the era they were released the album in it was probably one of the Street Sounds Electros, which weren't top shelf quality... the music on them on the other hand. I think I have an NME flexidisc for some band, The Faces I think.  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 06-13-2008 03:38 AM                     It's already been done Joe, and back in 1933 too! Link without Google video frame [ 06-13-2008, 09:12 AM: Message edited by: Adam Martin ]  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 06-13-2008 04:00 AM                        That's so awesome! I'd love to see Laurel and Hardy work in a projection booth. Just imagine them moving a print.  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 06-13-2008 04:44 AM                     (Buster Keaton did a similar film as a theatre projectionist - ol' "Stone Face" himself. Course, we have to remember Peter Sellers as Mr. Quill as the projectionist at the Bijou Kinema in "Smallest Show on Earth.") My friend back in my home town manage to find, through a mail order catalog, a portable '45rpm slot load player that used the 12v from the lighter. More of a novelty item, but just barely feasable and practical - let alone not being the kindest to vinyl.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 06-13-2008 11:11 AM                        quote: Joe Redifer I still think they should make a slot-loading turntable for your car for those who want to enjoy better sound than shitty-ass CDs on the road. There's no reason that couldn't be done, actually. Technics used to make a turntable (I think the model # was SL-1) that had the stylus built into a lid that would close onto the record. There was no traditional tone arm; the stylus was on a very short, straight arm that moved straight across the record via a tiny motor. You could play that thing in any position - hang it on the wall, even. You could pick it up and turn it on its side while playing and it still wouldn't skip. And this with a tracking force of about 2 grams. I'd bet there were some scientific types at Technics who tried to figure out a way to cram that thing into a car at some point. If it hadn't been for cassettes -- which were sounding pretty good by that time -- it might have actually happened.  |  IP: Logged Jack Ondracek Film God Posts: 2348 From: Port Orchard, WA, USA Registered: Oct 2002 posted 06-13-2008 12:55 PM                        quote: Joe Redifer I still think they should make a slot-loading turntable for your car for those who want to enjoy better sound than shitty-ass CDs on the road. Chrysler/DeSoto in-car player  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 06-13-2008 02:24 PM                        So there really were such things as 16rpm records, and the way they got round the vibration problem was to use a slow speed, tiny stylus radius and relatively high tracking force. Interesting.  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 06-13-2008 05:03 PM                        Awesome, but it needs to be slot-loading and play full-size records. Also it needs to be able to withstand my awesome subwoofer so when I play da hip hopz da needlez dey wont skip homey word 2 ur muther.  |  IP: Logged Todd McCracken Master Film Handler Posts: 263 From: Northridge, CA, USA Registered: Mar 2008 posted 06-13-2008 05:11 PM                    Guess its time to break out my near complete collection of Burbank Studio's loss leader alblums Ablum List  |  IP: Logged Damien Taylor Master Film Handler Posts: 493 From: Perth, Western Australia Registered: Apr 2007 posted 06-13-2008 07:19 PM                     16 rpm was for spoken word albums, mainly educational where fidelity was not a priority. quote: Mike Blakesley Technics used to make a turntable (I think the model # was SL-1) that had the stylus built into a lid that would close onto the record. I got given one of these, a SL-J3 I think, i've never bothered to get the stylus replaced, but it was awesome in principle. You could even program tracks, as it had an 'eye' that could see the tracks. You could go track 1,3,4,1 and even repeat a favorite track ad infinitum, the only thing it didn't have was a remote I was going to bring it up earlier, but since people have already started, why don't we post our most rare/obscure records. And.... wait for it. NOT start a new thread  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 06-13-2008 10:16 PM                     there were also 7inch 8rpm's as well, but also in the spoken word end of the spectrum, but not too popular and died pretty quick. Remember those 16inch,33rpm transcription discs that the radio stations used (where the groove started by the label and worked to the outside of the disc...) before wire and tape was invented? Good ol' Loss Leaders - garbage and demo tapes from up and coming artists that Warner produced in the 70's and dirt cheap, but had to order them for 2 to 3 bucks apiece - the price of pressing the vinyls. Now, somewhat of a collector item if in a NM condition. I've got a few of these "Loss Leader" albums [ 06-13-2008, 11:29 PM: Message edited by: Monte L Fullmer ]  |  IP: Logged

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