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Tell the Truth Which Was Your First Record Player

We all gotta start somewhere. Did you inherit some old console TV/Hi-FI or maybe a Singer portable swinger. When your sister went to college did she leave behind a Box Top Record Changer ?

The question is what record player was the first one you actually began playing records on. Which way did you discover the tactile joy of spinning those 45's and LP's

And just for fun if you can remember what was the first record you bought with your OWN money. The one you choose above a Banana Split at Woolworth's for 49 cents.

45, LP or 78 the only criteria is that it be with your own money not something your parents got you.

Here is Mine.

First Record Player

Emenee Barbie and Ken

First Record

Joey Dee and the Starlighters-Peppermint Twist-Roulette 45 rpm

First LP

Meet the Beatles- Capital Records

Happy May Day

Best Regards

Groovey Records

Listening to-
Louis Armsrtong-Rockin Chair-Basin Street Blues-St.James infirary-When It's Sleepy Time Down South - RCA Victor Gold Standard Series EPA-5000
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I was maybe 7-8 years old in 1976-7 with a record player with a built in speaker, model unkown. I just remember playing Carole King's Tapestry over and over and jumping around my room with my little 3 year old brother. Good times!
When I was 5...6 as far as my memory goes down the age I had a German mechanical gromophone to spin 78's but soon without realizing what this thing could worth now he..he.. I took it appart with no possibility to put it back together...:-)
Pathetic little thing with screw on stylus, mount assembly that touched a rubber/piezo pad. White arm, mainly for 45s. Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini was my first record. Then my grandparents gave me a stack of Ravel Mother Goose Suite on 45s (they had since moved on to LPs)and the world opened up.
a plastic base BSR/MacDonald deal with ADC cartridge. (hey, at least it was an idler drive so i've come full-circle there), run through an entry-level pioneer receiver to no-name speakers.

the first LPs i remember playing on the console at home are S&G bookends, inna-gadda-davida (side one only please), and tommy.

listening to (per the author)- stereolab dots and loops, tortoise tnt