On That Note: Origin Story

[Buster28]

Early music to me was listening on my little 8-transister radio to nighttime radio in my dark room when I was supposed to be sleeping. Literally had the radio under the covers. Would tune in to KAAY Little Rock Arkansas. 10,000 watt clear channel AM you could receive in Iowa at night.

I used to love staying up late with my first stereo, trying to see what stations I could get from across the country right here in Story County. I remember listening frequently to KOMA in Oklahoma City. I also used to regularly pick up stations out of Denver, Dallas, Atlanta, Salt Lake City, and occasionally one of the big AM country stations in Nashville. I'd keep a log of every out-of-state-station I could find. Was an entertaining hobby for a couple years until we moved to a place where mountains got in the way and I could only get about FIVE stations at all.

 

[cyclones500]

Missed this thread till just now. Dug around and found an old picture of my first record player taken when we cleaned out my mother's house. LOL. And explains why my first two albums, The Beach Boys Today and The Kinks Greatest Hits!, were mono and not even stereo. This was obviously mostly used for spinning 45s.

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Early music to me was listening on my little 8-transister radio to nighttime radio in my dark room when I was supposed to be sleeping. Literally had the radio under the covers. Would tune in to KAAY Little Rock Arkansas. 10,000 watt clear channel AM you could receive in Iowa at night.

That phonograph looks cooler than ****.

I think our player from similar era conked long ago and got scrapped.

With your player, did it require a half minute or so to “warm up”?

 

[BoxsterCy]

That phonograph looks cooler than ****.

I think our player from similar era conked long ago and got scrapped.

With your player, did it require a half minute or so to “warm up”?

I don't remember any warm up. Pretty sure that went to the estate auction. Think it still worked.