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The_Lizards_Jumpers said:
Weren't they covers of the popular songs of the day, as it was too expensive to get the rights to each song ?
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They were but often the covers were recorded by artists who would go on to have careers in music. Elton John certainly did some work on the TOTP albums and IIRC Bowie did too?
 
There was a sewing/wool type shop next to where Chris's barbers in the village is now.they used to sell ex chart stuff out of a little box on the counter. Bought my first single as a 10 yr old there before upgrading to the aforementioned establishments. Happy days. utb
 
Norfolkred1 said:
Bought myself a Jukebox this year. Just wished I could afford a real Wurlitzer but then again it would mean taking the middle out of a my singles and then again where can you get spiders from to replace the middles these days. Got a few rare and expensive singles so NO WAY will I damage them.
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I've got a Rowe Ami R87 that used to be in Doggy Workies years ago, it's a great old thing, weighs 20 odd stone and has had over 400,000 plays.
I'm putting the Xmas records back on at the moment.
 
There used to be a breed of "Sales Assistant" in record shops that wouldn't be tolerated anywhere else. I wonder where they work now! You know the sort who when presented with the cover of the album you had chosen would look at it, then at you, pause, then shuffle off at a geological pace to find the record with barely disguised contempt at your music choice. I tended to avoid anywhere that was like that. Then there were places you could go and get great advice. I started to listen to classical music when I lived in Liverpool and there was a great Classical Music Store just near Matthew Street and the guy in there was great, you could go in there and say you would like copy of say Vivaldi's Four Seasons and he would tell which was the "best" recording and why and it would often be a really cheap version on an obscure label.

I really miss spending time in Record Shops.
 
Muttley said:
There used to be a breed of "Sales Assistant" in record shops that wouldn't be tolerated anywhere else. I wonder where they work now! You know the sort who when presented with the cover of the album you had chosen would look at it, then at you, pause, then shuffle off at a geological pace to find the record with barely disguised contempt at your music choice. I tended to avoid anywhere that was like that. Then there were places you could go and get great advice. I started to listen to classical music when I lived in Liverpool and there was a great Classical Music Store just near Matthew Street and the guy in there was great, you could go in there and say you would like copy of say Vivaldi's Four Seasons and he would tell which was the "best" recording and why and it would often be a really cheap version on an obscure label.

I really miss spending time in Record Shops.
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Some of them work in bike shops, and some in hi-fi shops in my experience.
 
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