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Gramophone Records

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dennis

master brummie
Can you remember the first record you heard?
You young uns would not have heard of this I'm sure???
My first recolection was a song called Barnacle Bill The Sailor
which went something like this......
"Whose that knocking at my door"? cried the fair young maiden
"It's only me from over the sea" said Barnacle Bill the sailor.
"Are you young an handsome sir?" cried the fair young maiden,
"No, I'm old and rough & Dirty,& Tough"... said Barnacle Bill the sailor, ....

That's all I can remember,but then it was 70years ago,but I think that song was the reason I always wanted to join the Navy
 
Hiya Dennis
Can't say I remember that one but if you're interested I've just checked and Hoagy Carmichael recorded that song on an LP in 1982, if you'd like to track it down I can give you the catalogue number! :)
 
Reords

hi Jerry,
Forgot to mention,I still have that old record up in the loft,well worn as you can imagine,thanks for your offer,I would be most interested
 
Hi again Dennis
These are the details
The LP is called " Hoagy " and the catalogue number is INTS 5181
I don't suppose any high street shops would be still stocking it but if you go to somebody like Reddingtons in Digbeth they should be able to find you a copy
Let me know if you do, I wouldn't mind a copy myself, there are a lot of nice songs on the album
:wink:

By the way, if anybody wants any info on their old favourites, I've got a CD ROM that's got the details of every record issued in the last 50 years or so. Look up requests welcome :)
 
In my bedroom at home I had mom and dad's 30's gram. One of those single cupboards with a lift up top and the cupboard underneath, with slots for the records. There were never any needles and I never did hear it play. Mom kept her knitting in the cupboard. Sad. These grams sell for about £50 today.

I think the first recrd I actually remember playing was at ICI youth club in the 50's, Johnny Ray singing Cry. :( Then I went to the Hip. to see him :D
 
This topic is bringing back a lot of memories now
When I was a kid, in the early 50s, we had a wind up gramophone
It didn't have one of those big speakers like the HMV picture but as I remember every time you played a record you had to rewind the thing ( my job ) and put a fresh needle in the pickup arm ( Dad's job )
Dad used to send me to buy boxes of needles, I can't remember if it was 100 or 200 in a box
My parents were Irish so the first songs I remember were Irish and Scottish.
I remember going with dad to a record shop in the town where you could listen to the records before you bought them, It was a big store as I remember but I haven't got a clue what it was called or whereabout it was in town, anyone got any ideas?
So the first records I remember were mostly Irish and Scottish but isn't it amazing how things stick in your memory?
I was browsing through some Irish CDs in the market a few weeks back and on one of them there was a song called " The Boys From The County Armagh " now there's nothing special about this song but it's one that our Dad used to play way back then and the really scary thing is when I saw the title I could straight away remember him playing it and - this is what really got to me - I instantly remembered every word of that song that I had'nt heard for 50 years or more
 
Yes Jerry, you had to wind them up. I've got box's of those needles, found in an aunts house when she died. There are 200 in each box, and it says 'Use once only' :D

I think the shop was Millers, but someone will tell us if I'm wrong. Darned if I know where it was, Corporation Street, New street? I know I spent hours in there. :D
 
:D Well one of my first was 'The Little Blue Man' Betty Johnson (A track which I found on the site Jennyann put on her thread https://www.pcdon.com/pop-country.html) Others were'Catch a falling star' Perry Como (A track that Rod so kindly sent me a copy of) 'Love and Marriage' Pearl Carr and (T)Eddy Johnson (I think it was).
Anyway enough from me on this one, as I've said before I could go on and on...
Here are a few links to past threads on the subject posted by forum members and interesting reading it makes too. (I often make a search for past posts on subjects that come up again as it can be quite Nostalgic).
https://forums.bhwr.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=1489&highlight=records
https://forums.bhwr.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=1865&highlight=records
https://forums.bhwr.co.uk/viewtopic.php?p=8935#8935
https://forums.bhwr.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=2186&highlight=records

Chris :)
 
there was a big music shop and instruments at 80/84 New Street Birmingham City centre
Dale Forty & Co Ltd
 
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Hey Jerry,
Thanks to you mate, I actually found the words to Barnacle Bill on a website,just typed in Hoagy Carmichael and there they were,so finally got them.
Another use for those old records? folk used to warm them and turn them into fruit bowl's I rememember we had one memories what? :D
 
John
You've got me wondering now
Dale Forty had a shop on the Coventry Road in Small Heath in the 50s and that's down as a furniture store?
 
the furniture shop on the Coventry road was called Dales at number 241 that's the only one I could find in Kelly's 1950
Dale Forty's sold radios, televisions, sheet music, records and musical instruments.
 
Hi John
The plot thickens
I got my information from the 1956 kelly's and in that year No. 241 was listed as L. Bradbury - leather bag Dealer
Dale Forty & Co occupied Nos. 305 to 311 and is listed as furniture dealers. Maybe they diversified?
 
The first record I remember hearing was Tubby The Tuba by Danny Kaye and that was at Foundry Road Infants School.

dennis,
If the words to Barnacle Bill The Sailor are the same as the ones I regularly heard an old ex- marine sing in the Devonshire Arms, they were very, very, VERY rude! :wink:
 
My first record.

Was when I was 6 years old.
It was called 'Do they know it's Christmas time' by Band Aid..
Ahhh those happy memories...
8)




Actually (sob) it was 'What do you want to make those eyes at me for?'
By Emile Ford and the Checkmates..
 
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Paul, the only swearword in my version that I used to sing, was bloody, if it had been any worse I would have got a smack round the gob.
I remember me mom's favourite was "My sweet little Alice blue gown" and me dad's was "Lily of Laguna"
in the 50s I was into "Skiffle" Lonny Donegan's "Cumberland Gap"
Nancy Whiskey's "Freight train, Freight train" & The Vipers "Hey lordy pick a bale of cotton" to name a few
 
dennis,

There were no swear words as such, it was all innuendos, metaphors and double meanings. :oops: :lol:

One of the first records I bought was Lonnie's Lost John on a 78. My much older sisters were into Bing Crosby and that stuff. The one next up from me was into the Everly Brothers (quite liked them meself) and Frankie Vaughan...yuk!!! My first LP was Buddy Holly Story.
 
Gramaphone records.

My Dad still has a beautiful radiogram, it still works and the sound is beautiful. Its turntable can play 78`s 45`s and L.P`s. It must be over 40 years old and is still polished to perfection!. I think the first record I bought was a 78, Elvis "When the heartaches begin" Of course I was only 2 years old :wink: Jackie.
Paul do you remember the record shop on the flat, cant remember the name of it though. :roll:
 
:D Paul, the first LP that I bought for myself was 'Buddy Holly's Gratest Hits' Found it in a bargin bin in a record store in Ruslip Manor Middx. It was Alberta's sister in law my friend Val from Wimbush's, that first introduced me to his music she was a great fan of his and just a little bit older than me.

Chris :)
 
That's the one, John!

Jackie, yeah, spent hours in there getting them to play records that I had no intention of buying. :wink: My mate, Norman Haines (remember him - HNR?) worked there on a Saturday. He went on to play with various bands. The last I heard he was a BT engineer, but there you go. :? That shop was where I first heard The Beatles version of Twist and Shout - been a fan of 'em ever since. :lol:
 
Gramaphone record

Paul, do I remember Norman Haines?????????????I had an awful crush on him, he played in a group at Bishop Latimers Youth Club. I was besotted with him!!!!
Thanks John for reminding me of the Record Shop. I too spent time in there, always spent my weeks pocket money on a record Paul.
 
The Beatles, now you're talking Paul. 8)

I was beyond the first flush of youth when they started playing, but they really got to me. Still love 'em. I bought all their records on 45rpm, and when we went to Cyprus to live in 1966 they came with us. In thsoe days customs in Cyprus opened the odd packing case - after they dropped them from a crane on the ship onto the dock - and they chose the one with our records in them. I only hope they enjoyed playing them, 'cause we never saw them again. :cry:
 
Reading this thread brings back so many music memories with people's first memories of the music they played. My Mother acquired a wind-up gramophone and eventually we kids were allowed to use it. We had no records of our own then. This would be the late l940's....so we played some of my parents records....."You will remember Vienna"...Ketelby's "In a Monestry Garden" and "In a Persian Market Square", "Lazy Bones" Donald Peers "Bluebird of Happiness" and our favourite "The Laughing Policeman".
On rainy days we would play these records whilst no one else was home.
I also remember "Oh For the Wings of a Dove" and a set of 78's for the opera the "Merry Widow" which I still love. My Mother was very musical and we always had a piano and music in the house.
Later on when my Father bought home the Dansette Record Player, which was I would imagine, apart from the radiogrammes some people could afford, the first portable electric music delivery system at that time, the l950's. Ours definitely got a work out. My Mother bought many of the records "Davy Crockett...King of the Wild Frontier" Johnny Ray, Guy Mitchell, Lonnie Donegan,etc. When LP's came out she bought Bill Haley's "Rock Around the Clock" . My father thought she had lost her mind!!!!! My eldest brother Peter, loved Traditional Jazz...Kid Ory and others...so the house would jump to this music many evenings, when his friends came around. Thank goodness for the "front room" where they would all stomp their feet to the music!!!!! Mum always made sandwiches and tea for them.

I remember the days when the record shops and music departments of
big stores had Listening Booths. There was always a queue on Saturdays
to go in and listen to the latest record you might want to buy. Later on my Mother bought a radiogram in a very modern style. My brother still has it
and he has fixed it up very well. My father liked classical music and bought many records which are still around, as are many LP's that
were bought over the years. My brother Bill has them all catalogued and we play some of them when we get together. He is five younger than me and has some of his early record purchases. A different musical era was dawning by the late l950's and early l960's so there is quite a collection.
I always like Edmundo Ros in those sessions. Happy Days.
 
i am a guy mitchell fanatic i love most of his records and play them daily, also frankie lane/dean martin/ billy fury /marty wild
and most country music, you can actually hear the words, so no good to todays kids there so called music is just THUMP THUMP THUMP
you cant hear the words

jake
 
I used to like listening to mum's records of Mario Lanza, Frankie Laine and The Spinning Wheel by ? can't remember. Then I heard the Beatles and rushed out to buy their first, Love Me Do. Was hooked from then on and still like listening to them.

:)
 
mom and dad had 'Passing Strangers' - Sarah Vaughn and Billy Eckstine on '78...
I used to love that when I was little.
We had Mammy by Al Jolson, but can't remember if it was '78. (Logic says it must have been, but not sure).
Used to be able to remember the 78's there were at home, but can't now.
We had 2 wind up gramaphones for some reason.
 
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