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Saturday, March 20, 2010
Thirty-two Years
Linda and I spent anniversary number 32 in Milton-Freewater visiting our daughter and her husband and her little girl. It was a wonderful weekend.
We had a great time visiting, and we snuck away for a little while to have our anniversary dinner at El Sombrero Restaurant. Very plain on the outside, but totally different and very colorful on the inside.
Great food--and wonderful company.
How about that halo?
NEW TOY
Or...something else I will not have time to use.
The other day JCP was having a clearance sale and if you were lucky enough to need or want something they put on a super clearance sale you could get some fantastic sales. So I got a NEW TOY.
It is a USB Turntable that can be used to record old records to your computer and then transfer them to CD's. It was about 95% off! With discounts, I paid under $9.00 for it. (List price was $169.00) I could not turn it down.
I finally got around to installing the software and trying it out. Guess what! It works! I had a little trouble understanding exactly how to do what I wanted to do, but I think I finally got it.
To try it out, I recorded one piece. I chose Malaguena, a Spanish piece, from the album the Soul of Spain by 101 Strings. It was probably recorded in the late 1950's.
Stereo sound was just becoming popular. Dad wanted to get a nice radio/record player. So my parents purchased one from Sears. It was a console model probably about 4-5 feet wide that had the speakers and the radio and record player all in one. A popular finish for wood furniture was "blond" so that is what they got. It had AM/FM radio and there was a unique feature on it. You could play the AM and the FM at the same time. Remember, stereo was just becoming popular on records and FM stereo had not yet been invented. The idea was the some radio stations were broadcasting one channel of the stereo record on AM and the other channel on FM. So, by turning on both the AM station and the FM station at the same time, you could listen to the music in stereo. Clever. Also, you could tune in some nice classical music on FM and the news on the AM and have a musical background to the news--as if anyone would want to do that.
When my dad got the stereo, he wanted a good record to play on it that would demonstrate the performance of the equipment he purchased. As I remember, the salesperson suggested the Soul of Spain by 101 Strings. So Dad bought it. (or they might have given it to him for buying the stereo--I do not remember) I still remember Dad putting the record on the first thing after it was set up and turning the volume up on the set. Fairly "Jazzy" for my Dad at that time. I liked it--and so did the rest of our family.
So when I saw the album in the box in the garage, I thought I would try out my new toy by recording the first song on the record, Malaguena. And that is why I chose that particular music.
The next one I chose was the record our choir in high school, Adelphian Academy (Holly Michigan), made when I was a Junior or Senior (1964-1964). I had not listened to it for a long time so I thought it would be fun to try it out. There were 34 of us in the choir. We performed at the academy and also has quite a number of trips to churches around the area. (day trips, never overnight)
Click on the picture to enlarge. You may be able to pick me out.
Being in the choir was fun--sometimes. But, it was a lot of work and the director took it very seriously. They were a group of a lot of really nice kids--so that made it fun. As I listened to the record today, the music was, what shall I say, more "serious" than I had remembered. Yet some of it was probably fairly progressive for back then.
That is just a couple memories that my NEW TOY triggered as I looked through the old records.
The other day JCP was having a clearance sale and if you were lucky enough to need or want something they put on a super clearance sale you could get some fantastic sales. So I got a NEW TOY.
It is a USB Turntable that can be used to record old records to your computer and then transfer them to CD's. It was about 95% off! With discounts, I paid under $9.00 for it. (List price was $169.00) I could not turn it down.
I finally got around to installing the software and trying it out. Guess what! It works! I had a little trouble understanding exactly how to do what I wanted to do, but I think I finally got it.
To try it out, I recorded one piece. I chose Malaguena, a Spanish piece, from the album the Soul of Spain by 101 Strings. It was probably recorded in the late 1950's.
Stereo sound was just becoming popular. Dad wanted to get a nice radio/record player. So my parents purchased one from Sears. It was a console model probably about 4-5 feet wide that had the speakers and the radio and record player all in one. A popular finish for wood furniture was "blond" so that is what they got. It had AM/FM radio and there was a unique feature on it. You could play the AM and the FM at the same time. Remember, stereo was just becoming popular on records and FM stereo had not yet been invented. The idea was the some radio stations were broadcasting one channel of the stereo record on AM and the other channel on FM. So, by turning on both the AM station and the FM station at the same time, you could listen to the music in stereo. Clever. Also, you could tune in some nice classical music on FM and the news on the AM and have a musical background to the news--as if anyone would want to do that.
When my dad got the stereo, he wanted a good record to play on it that would demonstrate the performance of the equipment he purchased. As I remember, the salesperson suggested the Soul of Spain by 101 Strings. So Dad bought it. (or they might have given it to him for buying the stereo--I do not remember) I still remember Dad putting the record on the first thing after it was set up and turning the volume up on the set. Fairly "Jazzy" for my Dad at that time. I liked it--and so did the rest of our family.
So when I saw the album in the box in the garage, I thought I would try out my new toy by recording the first song on the record, Malaguena. And that is why I chose that particular music.
The next one I chose was the record our choir in high school, Adelphian Academy (Holly Michigan), made when I was a Junior or Senior (1964-1964). I had not listened to it for a long time so I thought it would be fun to try it out. There were 34 of us in the choir. We performed at the academy and also has quite a number of trips to churches around the area. (day trips, never overnight)
Click on the picture to enlarge. You may be able to pick me out.That is just a couple memories that my NEW TOY triggered as I looked through the old records.