Original records that we still have and grew up with have emotional value. The joy of playing them can’t be measured, if we can go back for one day and relive it, priceless. Thanks for sharing …✌
I am turning 75 this year and I love this video. I had a good collection of 45's because albums were more expensive to buy. So I had the Beatles She Loves You, and PJ Proby, and Shirelles, and Four Seasons (Ronnie), Roy Orbison on Parliament (Pretty Woman), Hermanns Hermits Mrs Brown, and even Bob Dylan Can You Crawl Out of Your Bathroom Window, and many more. My first record player was more primitive than yours. Probably cost 35 dollars. Whole family shared the use of it. My father brought his favorite Russian music and I played my British Invasion stuff. Memorable time. I thank you for all that you do. You are a blessing to my appreciation of all that has been done.
My earliest 45rpms..."Light My Fire" - The Doors & "Up, Up, & Away" - The 5th Dimension. The power of the B-Side: I learned this in a south Philly hoagie store. Remember jukeboxes also had the smaller controllers atop a counter or in a booth? I was watching a long-haired guy & his GF flipping thru the songs. They arrived at "Laughing" (The Guess Who). They, however, selected "Undun". What?!? Ever since, "Undun" has remained one of my most favourite Pop tunes.
Ohhhh... you put an earworm in my head I think it took me 20 years to get out "Mama it was too laaaaaaate"" lol... good memories -- ironically, my radio memories are mostly from the "Classic Rock Radio" era when all I liked on the radio was what they called "Oldies" so the hits for me were rediscovering hits from 20 years earlier -- now all I listen to is sports radio
I'm 59 and i used to have a lot of both albums and 45's but i either sold them or gave them away but i still have the memories of them especially of artists from the 60's and 70's thanks. 🎵🎶🎼🎤🎸🎸🎹🥁🎼🎶🎵
“Liar Liar” The Castaways (1965) if I’m not mistaken, girls on Gilligan’s Isle dancing to the song. I’ve collected records since late 1964-early 1965. Had the album “HELP!” by the Beatles when it first came out in ‘65, and tons of 45s, all throughout my formative years in the 1960s. I had that same Atco label 45 “Those were the Days” by Cream when it first came out in the record stores in late 1968 or early 1969. Great to reminisce! Great bands! Loved all the ones you mentioned! Had records by many of them. My entire life when I was young back in the 1960s!
Fun video Matt. Pretty cool turntable and the lights still work. I enjoyed seeing your 45 collection. Some closeups on the labels would be nice. I remember my older brother had these stick on numbers he'd put on his 45's. #1 Little Star by the Elegants. #2 Come Softly To Me by the Fleetwoods. Great memories Matt!
Great video Matt. The first 45 I recall playing was a beat up copy of Paperback Writer/Rain that belonged to my mother, this would have been in the very early 80s. Later she went to my grandmothers house and brought home a ton more of her old 45s, she had almost all the Beatles 45s including the early ones on VJ, plus the early Capitol albums. I recall being puzzled why "Thank You Girl" was so different on the "Second Album:" vs the VJ 45, found out years later that VJ had the original mono master tapes from EMI, whereas Capitol had stereo fold downs that they then drenched in reverb. The mono Thank You Girl also omits a lot of the harmonica fills.
Brother Matt! Thank you for sharing some great memories. I was born at the end of 1953 in December. Just as I turned 5 my Mom and I went to live with my aunt and her family in Antioch California. We needed a place to stay until my Dad could send for us to come and live in Oahu. My cousin would listen to the radio , play 45’s and let me listen with him. My favorite in 1959 was the Everly Brothers; Dream. When we moved back to SoCal in 63; I started my own collection with the Ronnettes; Baby I love you. I had the Beatles; She loves you, on Swan records, Please please me, on VJ records, Love me do, on Atco records and My Bonnie, on MGM records. It’s sad to say; I don’t have them anymore but I have a grip of memories. I have about 500 vinyl LPS that I listen to alphabetically every morning with my wife,Vera, over coffee. We are in the K’s right now. This morning was Kansas, Monolith. Tomorrow is John Kay’s, Forgotten songs and Unsung heroes. Thanks again for sharing. This was excellent. Have a great weekend. God bless. Blaze
I recall in the summer of '67, "Windy" was a new release and I was up after midnight, the rest of the family fast asleep, and I was waiting for "Windy" to be played on the local radio station. Hours passed with no "Windy". Finally I sneaked outside to smoke an illicit cigarette (I was 15 years old) and of course, when I finished, I crept back inside to hear the final verse of "Windy" fading from my radio speaker.
Very nice seeing 45's get attention. I'm 25 soon to be 26 in the upcoming weeks, I've been collecting records since I was 14 and though I have about 100-200 albums, I have almost 3,300 45's from 1954-2024 releases. I love them because they're affordable (for the most part) and fast and I can pull out records from different artists, genres, time periods, etc. to keep listening interesting. Yeah, I can spend $40 at a record store and walk out with 2-3 good albums but for the same price I can walk out with as many as 20 45's so that's another reason why I like them. I'm hoping this record format becomes more appreciated and dominant as it did in the 60's thru the 80's. I am very glad that contemporary artists have started to release more of their songs on 45's recently. Take care Matt.
I played my 45s to death! I started collecting old 78s. My parents had several. We stacked them up right next to the stereo. Unfortunately, my kid sisters would answer the wall mounted telephone, and not being tall enough, they stood on the records. They broke many of them. Today, we don't even have a record player. I'm looking forward to seeing your LPs, Matt! I remember seeing 'Whipped Cream and Other Delights'. I loved that album when I was a kid. Thanks, Matt, another interesting video.
I had the biggest smile on my face all through your marvelous video, Matt. I could write a book on my experiences with 45's, many which I still have. Thank you for making my day. 😊
Boy, Matt, you've hit a nostalgic chord for me. When I was eleven, the very first record I went to the store to buy with my own money was the 45 of "Indian Reservation"--followed shortly afterward by "Signs" by the Five Man Electrical Band. I played them on my own primitive little record player, very much like the one you've got there.
I always liked the Capital 45 labels with the orange and yellow swirl. The first 45 we had was Georgie Girl by the Seekers 1966 or 67 on Capital. It's cool how your record player still lights up. Linda Ronstadt did a good cover of I Can't Let Go in the late 70s.
Nice one Matt. We had Return to Sender, Roy's Blue Bayou. I remember buying You Really Got Me by The Kinks. I'm Crying by the Animals was converted at school to a singalong washing up after a party to I'm Drying! Later of course Strawberry Fields/Penny Lane, the grand finale for singles.
Matt I also have been listening to music since I was three years old and now I am 63. I remember buying somebody to love by The Jefferson Airplane when I was five. Mrs Richardson the owner of the record shop, asked me,mark why do you want this, i Replied Matt, because the word love is in it.
Appreciate your showing these.. I began listening to records about the same age you mentioned. Lately, I have made a list by decades of what I consider my favorite 45s by year.. One Way Ticket by Sedaka is one of his best, imo- Love treasure of B sides. Remember when records 'skipped?' I had Dusty Springfield's 'You Don't Have To Say You Love Me' and the line ' life seems dead' would skip.. Now if I hear the song, that line stands out! Great collection from you
It was late summer of 1963 and I was turning 12 years old. Using some birthday cash I purchased my first 45, The Martian Hop by the Ran Dells. Didn’t yet have a record player(would get one on my next birthday in 1964) so I played it my older sister’s hi-fi over and over again. It was the start of a long love affair with music that lasts to this day.
I scan YT looking for posts on 45 rpm collecting, and it was sooo nice to find your video. The 45 rpm gets nowhere near the respect and attention it deserves for many reasons. For those of us who grew up in the 50s/60s/70s it was usually our first foray into buying and playing records. We listened to Top 40 radio, and as cash-strapped kids/teenagers, it was much easier to come up with less than a dollar and head to the local record or dept. store and buy our favorite single than to buy an LP. I was fascinated by records before I even understood what they were. Today, I have nearly 10K of these little plastic gems, all original releases in original sleeves. Lots of promos and rarities. I do collect LPs as well, and love them, but the 45 rpm holds a special place in my heart and always will. Hope you will post more of these!
Twin sons from different mothers. You basically tell my story with the only difference being the specific 45s we were introduced to as youngsters. With the exception of 5 records: "Sugar Sugar", which I acquired from my sister. And similar to you, I was partial to many B sides. In this case, "Melody Hill". "Something/Come Together", which I acquired from a cousin heading off to Vietnam. "Temptation Eyes" - Mom bought for me by request. "Jam Up And Jelly Tight" - Mom bought for me by request (loved the B side - "Moontalk") "Indian Reservation" - Mom bought for me by request. Looks like your mom had the re-issue of "Dawn (Go Away)".
I was a preschooler when I took an interest in records. My parents had a stack of 10-inch 78's that were so fragile. I must've been 5 when they started buying my children's Peter Pan records. I was 13 when my parents invested in a console Magnavox Astrosonic radio/automatic phono. Thenn I began collecting seriously. Today I have over 5,000 45's, still in their paper/photo sleeves.
That's fantastic to hear. I too, collect original release 45s in their original sleeves. I have nearly 10K of these plastic gems. I'd love to see the 45 get more respect- they were the first foray into music for many of us at that time.
@@jeffreylind3739 Music publishing originally determined a hit song. Then when the record industry kicked in, the 78 rpm single release determined what was the hit song. Albums came along gradually in the 1940's. When rock n roll began, the 45 single was the popular medium -- small, portable, easy to handle. Up to the Sixties a band had to have a hit single single or two, before being considered for an album. By the Seventies Top 40 radio started to fade, with record albums taking the sales lead. Still, the 45rpm single was the hit version of the song that we remember.
O the pain. Don't look back! to selling my soundtrack collection around 1990 & too my 45s. Mostly 1960s vinyl, near mint in every way. Didn't I at least hold onto my Beatles EPs? can't find them in the relics of what's left. And so goes 'See Emily Play' & 'Satisfaction' & 'Messin About On the River' & 'Green Green Grass of Home' & 'Man In a Suitcase theme' & 'Sunshine Superman' & 'San Francisco' & 'Itchykoo Park'' & various Byrds & 'Meet Me On the Corner' into the '70s, & also, like you, 'Jennifer Eccles'... ( *Eccles* : a place bordering the lowrise flats where Graham Nash (& my granny) used to live early 1960s - - on the skids now but quaint back then.) By mid-1970s mine was the 1st teen generation that could afford to archive (not that we called it that, or even 'collecting' - - our records just piled up by default & before we knew it, we had a storage problem) 2nd-hand records from the past 2 decades which hitherto would have been too expensive in relation to wages to buy any more than a couple a month. (That's why Beatles & others had scruples about including a single song on an LP, manipulating buyers into buying twice. That's why, remembering his late-50s record-buying, McCartney made a big thing about going the extra mile in 1960s packaging to give value for money - - opposite mentality of Apple superdeluxe editions.) Seventies teens could now go out on any Saturday & blow our wages on a stash of 2nd-hand records which, when new, would have been the equivalent of 6 months of record-spending a decade before. The Seventies gets bad press about languishing in recession, but the number of records in a working class household like mine by 1974 was suddenly way, way beyond what records we had in the 1960s. All you had to do was compare what I had to what my 5 years-elder brother had at the same age. And he did, frequently. Around 1980 there was one 2nd-hand record shop at the top of my road & at least another 15 in Manchester city center & as many new record retailers, all walking distance from each other. So shopping for records any given Saturday really did entail visiting at least 31 record shops. This was before carboot sales was a UK thing, when city center rates were low-rent & any trader with a few contacts could set up business in a dusty fleapit next to a pornshop-posing-as-newsagent or/& an aquarium around the corner from everybody else's dusty fleapit-pornnewsagent-aquarium. Morrissey served briefly in one record shop here ('Yanks') until he was beaten up outside one day. Ian Curtis served briefly in another until he beat himself up
Yes, the 70s saw a lifestyle change for the better in spite of the recessions and gas shortages. I may do a video on that, showing just my collection of pop culture memorabilia as proof 🙂
ALOT OF THOSE B SIDES SHOULD HAVE BEEN THE A SIDE,like the song MY BONNIE,the A side ,HAIR the B side by GILDED CAGE,1969 ,HAIR should have been the A side
Oh, my god,,,’DAWN GO AWAY “- WAS MYVERY FAVORITE SONG AS A 6 YEAR OLD[PRE-BEATLES infatuation] , andit still shakes me to my soul , every time ihearit today-great walkdown’musicalmemory lane’ -Matt, thanx !!!
I started buying 45s in early 1970 at age 8: 8 Days a week & Paperback Writer were the first two I bought-$0.88 each at Target. I still have them along with all kinds of other singles. Picture Sleeves really enhance the appeal of 45s.
Very fun! It’s funny: the 1 Association record I had as a sister hand-me-down was one you didn’t! (Along Comes Mary). Also: the Gilligan Women song was You Need Us, so close! 😁👍🏼
A great memory I have- an old buddy of mine (we were around college age) used to bring stuff over to recommend and lend, and likewise go through my collection to borrow. I remember him dropping off a pile of stuff for me to hear, including Clarence "Frogman" Henry, stuff like that- and then giving me incredible amounts of hell when he discovered Vicki Carr's "It Must Be Him" among my stacks. He wouldn't let up on that one. When he was leaving with his selections, (Of course) I caught him smuggling out Vicki Carr in the bunch. Cold busted.
I'm not the only one to "toss" rejected 45's! The summer of 69, our family spent weekends camping along a flood control lake in NE Ohio. During the early summer weeks, flood control lakes are often at their maximum after spring rains, and that summer was especially high (pun intended), with water covering the back properties of lakeside homes. I took that opportunity to wander along those lawns, enjoying the feel of grass beneath my feet instead of the usual mud. So I'm strolling along when I felt something solid under one of my feet. I reached down, and pulled up a 45 single! It was The Doors Love Her Madly/Don't Go No Further. I was familiar with their radio hit Light My Fire, but nothing else at that point (age 11). I carried it up to the rec center record player to give it a spin. I don't recall which side I played first, but neither song did it for me. In fact, I was so disappointed, I went back to the lake and tossed it back in! I didn't want to leave it near that record player for someone else to star playing it over and over! Yes, I can now appreciate Love Her Madly, smiling at the memory.
I still have 90% of the singles I had as a kid. Going back to my cousin's early Elvis 45s. My fave though is the one that mum bought for me and my brother, a lil single called I Want to Hold Your Hand by a new band to us, The Beatles. I still love playing them (and adding to them in the hope that one day I will have enough spare cash to buy a jukebox :) )
I loved 45's that had picture sleeves --- Beatles , Raiders and the Monkees were cool to pick up at garage sales ! 🙂 I also bought 45's from mail catalogues like American Pie Records .There was a chain of stores called National Record Mart that had loads of oldies in the mid 70's .
I'm also very much a B-side fiend, and you are SO right about the Beach Boys "Girl Don't Tell Me", and some of the others as well. But I admittedly pre-date you by a decade or so, I could create a very lengthy list of B-side favorites of mine.
Hey Matt, thanks for sharing some of your collection. It’s so funny that I have some of those same 45s! I used to like looking at the different labels too, and it seemed like such a treat when my dad came home with one that had a picture sleeve. The record case (that I still have) came with little numbered labels you can put on the record & an index card that you could write the titles on. 😄🎶
this was an interesting video! i love 45s... and continue to buy them when they are around! they make for such an intimate experience! 45s make you breathe differently than 33s do! there is something about the 45 spin! thank you, matt
Funny - I had a very similar start to record collecting. I also remember identifying songs based on label design and to this day I always remember what label 45s are on...
45s. Of course, my first records were 45s. The very first was Gimme Dat Ding by the Pipkins. My grandmother dug it! (She didn't care for my records as I got older.) I set the family phonograph on repeat and listened to it over and over, until my father thundered that he didn't want to hear Gimme Dat Ding one more time! It had what I thought was a really cool red Capitol label. I got an Apple record too, it was Helen Wheels by Paul McCartney & Wings. Those two acquisitions have to have been several years apart. I had My Maria by BW Stevenson, and admired that orange RCA label. I bought those records when they were current. It didn't occur to me that you could go back and listen to older stuff, until a high school friend with whom I shared an interest in rock and records lent me albums by the Beatles and Jefferson Airplane. At about that time a copy of Retrospective: The Best of Buffalo Springfield appeared in my parents' collection; I have no idea how. It had that cool yellow Atco label. But I had no idea what it was, and thought the name and the cover were goofy. On closer inspection I realised I knew who a couple of the band members were, saw that one of the song titles was Rock And Roll Woman, and it began to dimly dawn on me that this was some kind of proto-cool artifact. I grew to love every one of those songs. I was getting an education! I was beginning to buy cut-outs by mail order, and also discounted but uncut CBS records, kind of the precursor to the Nice Price series. The catalog noted that all Apple records (e.g. Badfinger) were uncut. One album that was available this way was Let It Be, so with my newfound interest I ordered that, and it had that cool red Apple label. A different friend lent me his copy of All Things Must Pass, with those beautiful orange Apple labels. By this time I'd been reading what I could, and I'd read about Phil Spector. My parents now had a better stereo too, and Wah-Wah was my auditory example of the Wall of Sound I'd been reading about. (I don't think I'd heard the Ronettes or anything.) It was (to me) glorious! Still without an easy way to get to record stores (or much money) I bought discounted and cut-out records by mail order, most importantly by the Byrds. I had to. I'd read about them. No one had them in their collections, and no radio station I ever heard played them. Got great albums like Turn! Turn! Turn!, 5th Dimension, and Sweetheart of the Rodeo. But I had to pay full price for some albums, like Abbey Road and the White Album. And I had a label disappointment! Though my copies of the latter came in cardboard covers with the paper graphics glued on, in the old fashion, and I think even said Apple Records on the covers, the records inside were red Capitol. (This was the fall of '77. Later issues had poster board covers.) They were fine-sounding copies, but I just couldn't get over my hang-up that to me that just didn't look right. The labels for those albums were supposed to be green Apple, not red Capitol. This little problem of mine wasn't something I could tell anyone else about without them looking at me funny. Throughout my collecting, though it was the music that was the impetus, I've always enjoyed the graphics, including the labels, as well as what was actually in the grooves. And to this day, aside from whatever sonic considerations there may or may not be, I feel that certain labels just look right for certain albums. Jeff Beck's Blow By Blow should have an orange Epic label, not blue. Spirit's 12 Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus should have the yellow Epic label, not orange. The Columbia label thankfully didn't change much, but the old, old, six-eye version, though it was well before my time, is really the coolest.
Matt, so fun going down memory lane with you! I bought my first 45, Let It Be, at the age of 9 from the Variety Store in my small town in Michigan. We lived a short drive from Lake Michigan and listened to our favorite AM radio stations WOKY in Milwaukee and WLS in Chicago. I had loved the Beatles from the age of 3, when they appeared on the Ed Sullivan show. Luckily my mother loved music also and we used to listen to her old 78 records, so as much as she sometimes complained of songs like "Downtown" being too repetitive, we always got to listen to whatever we wanted and would stay up late at night listening to our transistor radio or car radio when the stations came in especially good! I was also fortunate to have acquired my 6 year older sister's ecclectic collection of 45's when she went away to college, as she had no way of playing them there. She was into folk and country, some of which I grew to love, but overall my tastes were more pop/rock, so the Beatles were always my first choice. Little did I know they had already broken up by the time I bought that first 45...
I'm recognizing the labels before you even take them off the stack, and I remember almost every one of these songs. Wishing you had shown close-ups. 😎 I'm the youngest of five, and there were singles ('50s at the time) being played in our house from the day they brought me home from the hospital. Started buying my own when I was eight. I still have all of them, including "Hey Jude" and "Get Back."
Does anyone remember The Close n play record player - got that one when I was 4-- buzzed out all my moms 45s-- Johnny Horton , Johnny Cash - Winchester Cathedral - I think I recall Stormy Weather by the Five Sharps-- NAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH Just kidding on that one SUCKERS!!!
Matt. . . this was so much fun. . . great memories . . . . I too started spinning the tunes (45s) at age 2 which was 1954 for me . . LPs were great , but back then as kids/teenagers, it was about listening to, trading, inadvertently breaking 45 singles . . . we are not talking audiophile recordings, which is what makes 45 collecting and playing so special .. FWIW, I still have maybe 500 45s. . . I love your videos
Great episode! I was never a big collector of singles, but I still have the majority of what I had as a kid. I may have mentioned my 'cool uncle' to you before, and when I was around 6 he gave me a lot of records, including a stack of 45s, which I still have. Among them are original pressings of "Psychotic Reaction" by Count Five, "I Had Too Much To Dream Last Night" by the Electric Prunes, "I Can't Explain" by The Who, just a bunch of really cool stuff. When I started to collect vinyl again a few years back, I found a few original Box Tops (with Alex Chilton) singles, that same Beatles you show here on Vee Jay, original press of "You Really Got Me" by The Kinks, etc. There were a few I bought in the early-mid 70's, like The Raspberries "Go All The Way" and "I Wanna Be With You", "No More Mr Nice Guy" by Alice Cooper, etc. I'm glad I never got rid of these, great memories, music, and sentimental value.
The 45 that first fascinated me when I was a little kid in 1966 was “They're Coming They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa!” By Napoleon XIV. And the B-side is even more bizarre-it has the song backwards: th-cam.com/video/4gbvcEkuFFI/w-d-xo.htmlsi=jVaOZCJYvw0ejMd1
Thanks for this look at 45's. I only have about 300 (or more) from the 1950s to the last one I bought in 1989 by Roy Orbison called "You Got It." Your album collection makes mine (100 or slightly more) look like a very tiny collection. My CD collection started in the 1980s and is over 500, and again, it is small compared to many collectors. Most of my collection is purchased new, some early records were gifts, and about 30 of the 1950s 45s are from one of my older sisters. I have one loss so far ... It WAS a Buddy Holly and the Crickets 45 of "That Will Be The Day." It got caught between a stack of records and a wooden back wall and broke in half which, at the time, broke my heart. I have pretty much stopped buying as I have as much as I can take care of.😁 I'm 77 and still love listening to music. Not all, but maybe 90% of the collection is Rock and Roll. Anyway, I have no idea what will happen to my collection when the time comes. Maybe, just maybe, my older son would be the curator.😊 Records are not a time machine but it is our mind. The music is the transporter. I enjoy your videos. Dennis.
Thanks for sharing those gems, and backstories. Approx your age, no one in my family collected 45's. Mom and I were into LP's, but my kid sister did own a GE portable player, and a selection of 45's, all Christmas gifts in 1970. She and I spent nearly all of that winter break listening to those same 45's over and over. The big favorite for both of us was The Beatles Let It Be/You Know My Name. Both sides were played equally. I remember being blown away that the same band could create those two very different songs. Sure, I grew up listening to them, and knew they were innovators, but the stark difference between those two tracks on the same 45 was such a marvel to me. They remain favorites to this day, along with 20 or more other Beatles favorites. Other 45's my sister acquired that year (that I can remember) were Cherry Hill Park by Billy Joe Royal, Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head by BJ thomas, Bridge Over Troubled Water by Simon and Garfunkel, Close To You by The Carpenters, Come And Get It by Badfinger, and Patches by Clarence Carter. My Christmas gift that year was a GE cassette player/recorder, which turned out to be the start of my career working with another tape tape recording medium - video.
Wow Matt - so much I could comment on here, really touched a nerve - I was born in 64 and like you, was into the spinning around 2 or so. I vividly remember my mom & dad taking me to White's dept store in Middle Island NY to pick up that new record "Windy" which I played at least 3 times that night when we got home. Still a fave. Check the flip of Green Tambourine, a group composition "No Help From Me" which is as far a 180 from the A as one can get, a psych rocker. There's video of them doing it live back in the day on TH-cam. And as for The Hollies' "Try It", check out this video of a 1971 broadcast from a Dutch radio pirate ship that gets BOMBED on air - they were playing "Try It" when it all went down, it is fascinating and gripping listening. th-cam.com/video/tLaJxP7ATBs/w-d-xo.htmlsi=rlqpYqNBbGCZ59ZB Love the videos, thanks for the great material!
Hi Matt from Buffalo NY. Wings are on me if you are ever in town! Love the Channel. I had Bang Shang A Lang as a cut out record from the back of a cereal box. I don't remeber what kind, Sugar Snaps? How about a deep dive into Three Dog Night albums? TY!
This was a lot of fun! I have a collection of 45s from when I was a teen in the 1980s but it they were mostly older songs reissued. I got a few Beatles reissues one of which had a mono mix of Revolution which I loved. I also got Spies Like Us by Paul McCartney which I liked at the time (not having much knowledge of his solo back catalog) but now I don’t regard it loved hearing the Indian Reservation which was #1 the week I was born. Thanks very much Matt!
From Ed Ames to Cream. You sound like me. I was also a B side maven. Regarding the Carpenters, I bought Please Mr. Postman but I flipped it over and played This Masquerade, still one of their greatest recordings ever.
Ah... those were the days. HiFi was crap, We didn't care. Records got scratched. We didn't care. AM radio was it and it sounded like crap. We didn't care. Car radios, home radios and those help held transistor radios were perfect for the AM radio crap sound. All-and-all, the music was fun, even if a lot of it was forgettable junk. Those were there days... my friend.
I don't comment much here or anywhere on TH-cam, but this was a fun little video. 45s don't get a lot of attention anymore. While I love collecting LPs, I still enjoy 45s and have a rather extensive collection.
I had Bang shangalang! Lol. My brother used to decorate his side of our room with Beatles picture sleeves… If only we knew. Girl Don’t tell be is a GREAT song. You’d of definitely had the coolest record player in my neighborhood.
Girl don't tell me....at the ripe old age of 72 I heard it on a Sarasota radio station... first time I heard it for some reason...on my music playlist on my phone...turns out my favorite beach boy song
That was so much fun!!! I wish I still had my first record player ( bought at Western Auto) for $20 in 1965...I was 2 as well...Of course, bought by my folks.... Peace and Love, Terry and Julia Tutor
Great collection, I was the DJ for school dances in 7th through 10th grade so I had a large collection of 45s which I store in the original small suitcase type box.I pull them out once in a while.
I got my first 45 probably in December 1964. It was "All Day And All Of The Night"/"I Gotta Move" by The Kinks. In the early years I leaned more toward LPs than 45s. I had limited funds from my parents and had to choose very carefully how to spend it! My first record of any kind was "Meet The Beatles", bought in March 1964 when our family finally got a record player! My total collection of 45s is still only about 300 with maybe 100 of them obtained in the last 4 years as I attempted to (and successfully) compiled a complete collection of U.S. Apple Records 45s from 1968-1975. I have them all and I have all of the available picture sleeves for them except one where only one picture sleeve exists - in the hands of a very serious collector! I'm pretty much done collecting 45s at my advanced age of 69. Now it's about time to sell them!
@@popgoesthe60s52I could easily part with maybe half of mine - the rest are somewhat sentimental. I have to keep telling myself to stop looking on eBay for ones to buy! I weakened a few weeks ago and picked up the Capitol 4-song EP by The Beatles, "Four By The Beatles". It's kind of rare in good condition and I got a good price but I really didn't need it!
Matt, I have a couple of hundred 45s. Mine range from the 50s, 60s, 70s and 80s. I acquired most of the 80s 45s from my brother in law. He had over 200 of them and he passed away in 2013 at the age of 49. My mother in law gave me all of them and the albums, and even some old albums she had from her younger years. I have added to my collection from time to time when I find something at Goodwill. One day several years ago, I was at a media store which sold records, comics, memorabilia and a lot more. They had several 45s by the Monkees. I offered to buy all of them if they would sell them to me at $1 each. They did and I have them. Enjoyed your video. Did you ever read my comment months ago where I had requested that you do one of your video docs about The Association? I'd love to see one sir. Thanks.
Hello! Thank you for sharing your story. I actually have covered the Association on this channel with a 4-part series. Check it out: th-cam.com/video/fCLZznRQeOw/w-d-xo.html
@@popgoesthe60s52 Thanks matt for making me aware of your series on the Association. I am guilty like most of us are when we find a new channel and subscribe and start watching someone, meaning, that I haven't gone back and watched all of your older vids as I need to. But since you shared this with me, I will definitely watch the entire 4 part series and I will comment most likely on each part. I have two copies of their Association Live at the University Of Utah back in 1970. This was my introduction to this great band. My mother was a member of the Columbia Record House back in the 60s and 70s, as most parents were back then. This was the album of the month at one point and I got the card because I liked the way the album cover looked. I was around 12 years old in 1971 around the time I discovered the Association. I hid the card and they sent the album. Mom paid for it and she did allow me to keep it. I still have that original copy today, plus another I bought at a Media/record store several years ago. Unfortunately I never saw the band live in concert. Not even after Brian Cole passed away from the drug overdose. But they will always be one of top 5 bands from the 60s/70s. You will see my comments on the series as soon as I have time to watch them. Thanks again for sharing this info.
My first was Under New Management by the Barron Knights. Americans won’t know them but they were on Parlophone, the label for the Beatles and Hollies. They spoofed hits of the day on themed 45s. The other day on a sixties tv compilation they had David and Jonathan Lovers of the World Unite. These are the lyrics for the Barron Knights version which I remember verbatim from Under New Management: Brothers of the works let’s strike Come to the meeting on your bike Leave your Rolls Royce in the yard Don’t forget your union card We will strike till they agree To stop all this redundancy Britain was having massive problems with strikes at the time. They were hugely popular and had their own tv series. To show how far back they go, their first hit was Call Up the Groups. There was a rhyme in it Send the Searchers to Algiers for about a thousand years. Who remembers the Battle of Algiers?
Thank you Matt for great memories of 45's. I too starting at age 2 playing 45's, my favorite was Chewy Chewy by Ohio Express. I played it so much my cousins still get a laugh today.
Another classic episode of Pop Goes the 60s. I loved the 45s as well. And had the 3 apple Beatles singles that Matt mentioned. Another favorite was The Guess Who's" No Sugar Tonite". I have a question for all you Apple Beatles owners. Do you find the song titles difficult to read on the green A side of the lps . Or is it just me? I'm referrring to full lps rather than just singles.
I also put tape on my 45's, but for a different reason. If you had a record player with an automatic record changer and you used it often enough, the center of the record would smooth out so that they would slide over each other, causing the sound to distort. Tape improved the friction and stopped that from happening. Regarding your Monkees picture sleeve - my dad took us kids on a tour of an RCA factory at some point in the 1970's and they handed out Monkees 45's gratis at the end of tour. I got I'm a Believer. Some of my siblings got the one you have. Take a Giant Step is great song.
Unfortunately, all my 45s were stolen during my time at boarding school in the '70s. Ones I remember included "Satisfaction" by the Rolling Stones, The Beatles' "Let It Be" and "Hey Jude," "Midnight Hour" by Gladys Knight and the Pips, "Who Needs Ya" by Steppenwolf, "Hello I Love You" and "Unknown Soldier" by the Doors (given to me by Jac Holzman's son, who was a schoolmate at the time). I actually had several rock albums before I started buying 45s.
The very first record I ever owned, got it upon original release in 1965, was the 45 of Help! with I'm Down on the B-side. I played both sides to death in my bedroom. My siblings didn't complain, even though I cranked the volume way up (headphones were not a mass market thing in those days). My mom & dad had bought a little record player for my birthday and my mom took me to the store and said pick out a record for your new record player. I already knew what I wanted. Help! was number one on the radio that week and I loved it! For years, I couldn't understand the lyrics to I'm Down. Man buys ring, woman throws it away -- just didn't register in my brain, couldn't figure it out, but it didn't matter, sounded hot whatever Paul was belting out. LOL!
Some of my "45 collection" has 33 speed! I think the coolest are those old fashioned cereal box cut out recordings. I'm surprised they still work just fine; admittedly I rarely play them for fear of damaging them. I have other 45 sized records that are so thin (sheet of paper thin, but made of plastic) they bend far too easily but they too play just fine!
My mother also loved hearing some B-side singles too Billy Joe Royal's Oh, What a Night over A-side Down in the Boondocks, Gary Lewis and the Playboys "Without a Word of Warning" over "Save Your Heart For Me", Herman's Hermit's "No Milk Today" over "There's a Kind of Hush", Boris Pickett's "Monster Mash Party" was more fun than "Monster Mash", and Uncle Mitch and his Detriot Wheel's "Tally Ho' was listened to more than "Linda Sue Dixon"
You hit the bullseye with this one Matt! Allow me a brief jaunt down memory lane: My older sister had a ton of 45`s and when I was about four I learned to work her record player. (we called it a pick-up) It sat on the floor and i would sit hunched over it while the records played. I couldn`t read yet - but as you point out - I recogized the labels to my favourites. I loved to watch them spinning from my vantage point. The Capitol swirl label was fantastic and many others were positively hypnotic. I remember Daydream by the Lovin Spoonful (as I learned when I started to read) was on a spectacular red and yellow label called Kama Sutra which looked amazing when spinning. I still have it - although it gave up the ghost long ago - and it remains quite possibly my favourite pop song from the sixties. Tonight I will open my box of 45`s and give some of them a spin. Merci from Canada.
Loved the Kama Sutra label had Summer in the City and Nashville Cats and You Didn't Have To Be so Nice! As a kid the Uni label was my favorite to watch spin. Strawberry Alarm Clock- Tomorrow
Here in Canada we had The Guess Who who were on the Nimbus labelwhich was quite psychedelic. Also CCR were on Fantasy which was very attractive also. Great memories.@@colingillis5989
Hey Robert, I was the first born so I had to rely on records from my cousings and of course, my parents. Thanks for sharing and glad you liked the video!
Fun episode Matt in showing your 45's and sharing your stories and memories, somehow 45's have that magical effect of making us stroll down memory lane, for example that Ed Ames 45 of My Cup Runneth Over With Love was a Big favorite of my dad, - I also have that Apple 45 of Hey Jude and Revolution, as well as a Capitol swirl of I Want To Hold Your Hand and This Boy, other prized 45's that I have are of Elvis (Sun Records) Thats Alright Mama/ Blue Moon Of Kentucky, The Dave Clark Five' Because/Theme Without A Name, and The Animals House Of The Rising Sun and Talkin About You. -But one big childhood memory for me is the unmistakable smell of Vinyl thats something that always comes to my mind when it comes to 45"s and LP's -Love the smell of old records. -Anyways Matt Great presentation and Nice record player👍
Everything That Touches You (RIP Terry Kirkman 💔) as a song and Birthday as an Album are each #1 in their category for late '60s psychedelia, my favorite genre. Best of the whole decade, in my rankings of course. ♥️♥️ Happy Easter. 🐰🐇
I first started buying records when I was about 10 years old in 1957. I remember buying Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly, Little Richard, Fats Domino and Jerry Lee Lewis. No albums, only 45's.
That video was great! Thanks for showing your old 45s! I found my old ones recently. My hand-me-downs were I Feel Fine/She's A Woman (Beatles), Love Potion Number Nine/Hi-Heel Sneakers (The Searchers), Tell Her No/Leave Me Be (The Zombies). The Zombies 45 label has a really cool green & yellow dancing Parrot on it with a hat & cane.
Good show Matt. In my single digit years I got hand me downs from my Uncle's (Mom's brothers). I particularly remember "Keep A Knock'n" Little Richard on Specialty & "Respectable" The Isley Brothers on RCA Victor. I used to play the B-side for the Isley Brothers too "Without A Song". Allot of memories come back through music.
I love the sound of pre 1966 Rock'n'Roll on a primitive tube turntable.
Original records that we still have and grew up with have emotional value. The joy of playing them can’t be measured, if we can go back for one day and relive it, priceless. Thanks for sharing …✌
I am turning 75 this year and I love this video. I had a good collection of 45's because albums were more expensive to buy. So I had the Beatles She Loves You, and PJ Proby, and Shirelles, and Four Seasons (Ronnie), Roy Orbison on Parliament (Pretty Woman), Hermanns Hermits Mrs Brown, and even Bob Dylan Can You Crawl Out of Your Bathroom Window, and many more. My first record player was more primitive than yours. Probably cost 35 dollars. Whole family shared the use of it. My father brought his favorite Russian music and I played my British Invasion stuff. Memorable time. I thank you for all that you do. You are a blessing to my appreciation of all that has been done.
I appreciate the kind words. Thank you.
My earliest 45rpms..."Light My Fire" - The Doors & "Up, Up, & Away" - The 5th Dimension.
The power of the B-Side: I learned this in a south Philly hoagie store. Remember jukeboxes also had the smaller controllers atop a counter or in a booth? I was watching a long-haired guy & his GF flipping thru the songs. They arrived at "Laughing" (The Guess Who). They, however, selected "Undun". What?!? Ever since, "Undun" has remained one of my most favourite Pop tunes.
Yes "Up,Up and away" was also one of my first. Still have a picture of me at age 2 playing it at my Grandparents house. Wonderful memories.
Ohhhh... you put an earworm in my head I think it took me 20 years to get out "Mama it was too laaaaaaate"" lol... good memories -- ironically, my radio memories are mostly from the "Classic Rock Radio" era when all I liked on the radio was what they called "Oldies" so the hits for me were rediscovering hits from 20 years earlier -- now all I listen to is sports radio
I'm 59 and i used to have a lot of both albums and 45's but
i either sold them or gave them away but i still have the memories
of them especially of artists from the 60's and 70's thanks.
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“Liar Liar” The Castaways (1965) if I’m not mistaken, girls on Gilligan’s Isle dancing to the song. I’ve collected records since late 1964-early 1965. Had the album “HELP!” by the Beatles when it first came out in ‘65, and tons of 45s, all throughout my formative years in the 1960s. I had that same Atco label 45 “Those were the Days” by Cream when it first came out in the record stores in late 1968 or early 1969. Great to reminisce! Great bands! Loved all the ones you mentioned! Had records by many of them. My entire life when I was young back in the 1960s!
I'll be 70 this year and have every 45 and album I ever bought. They were all well-played. One day I'll have to look through them.
Fun video Matt. Pretty cool turntable and the lights still work. I enjoyed seeing your 45 collection. Some closeups on the labels would be nice. I remember my older brother had these stick on numbers he'd put on his 45's. #1 Little Star by the Elegants. #2 Come Softly To Me by the Fleetwoods. Great memories Matt!
Great video Matt. The first 45 I recall playing was a beat up copy of Paperback Writer/Rain that belonged to my mother, this would have been in the very early 80s. Later she went to my grandmothers house and brought home a ton more of her old 45s, she had almost all the Beatles 45s including the early ones on VJ, plus the early Capitol albums. I recall being puzzled why "Thank You Girl" was so different on the "Second Album:" vs the VJ 45, found out years later that VJ had the original mono master tapes from EMI, whereas Capitol had stereo fold downs that they then drenched in reverb. The mono Thank You Girl also omits a lot of the harmonica fills.
Brother Matt!
Thank you for sharing some great memories. I was born at the end of 1953 in December. Just as I turned 5 my Mom and I went to live with my aunt and her family in Antioch California. We needed a place to stay until my Dad could send for us to come and live in Oahu. My cousin would listen to the radio , play 45’s and let me listen with him. My favorite in 1959 was the Everly Brothers; Dream. When we moved back to SoCal in 63; I started my own collection with the Ronnettes; Baby I love you. I had the Beatles; She loves you, on Swan records, Please please me, on VJ records, Love me do, on Atco records and My Bonnie, on MGM records. It’s sad to say; I don’t have them anymore but I have a grip of memories. I have about 500 vinyl LPS that I listen to alphabetically every morning with my wife,Vera, over coffee. We are in the K’s right now. This morning was Kansas, Monolith. Tomorrow is John Kay’s, Forgotten songs and Unsung heroes. Thanks again for sharing. This was excellent. Have a great weekend. God bless.
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Thanks Blaze! Much appreciated.
I recall in the summer of '67, "Windy" was a new release and I was up after midnight, the rest of the family fast asleep, and I was waiting for "Windy" to be played on the local radio station. Hours passed with no "Windy". Finally I sneaked outside to smoke an illicit cigarette (I was 15 years old) and of course, when I finished, I crept back inside to hear the final verse of "Windy" fading from my radio speaker.
Who's peekng out from under a stairway.........
Very nice seeing 45's get attention. I'm 25 soon to be 26 in the upcoming weeks, I've been collecting records since I was 14 and though I have about 100-200 albums, I have almost 3,300 45's from 1954-2024 releases. I love them because they're affordable (for the most part) and fast and I can pull out records from different artists, genres, time periods, etc. to keep listening interesting. Yeah, I can spend $40 at a record store and walk out with 2-3 good albums but for the same price I can walk out with as many as 20 45's so that's another reason why I like them. I'm hoping this record format becomes more appreciated and dominant as it did in the 60's thru the 80's. I am very glad that contemporary artists have started to release more of their songs on 45's recently. Take care Matt.
You are right about the sheer variety of 45 that you could stack up and let play. Thanks for the comment!
Ahh 45s were the gateway drug to LPs once we got older and had our own money. Pop go the B Sides. !
That sounds like a good topic!
So many memories! Thanks for sharing, Matt. Looking forward to seeing more of your collection.
I played my 45s to death! I started collecting old 78s. My parents had several. We stacked them up right next to the stereo. Unfortunately, my kid sisters would answer the wall mounted telephone, and not being tall enough, they stood on the records. They broke many of them. Today, we don't even have a record player. I'm looking forward to seeing your LPs, Matt! I remember seeing 'Whipped Cream and Other Delights'. I loved that album when I was a kid. Thanks, Matt, another interesting video.
I'm glad to hear you want to see my collection. That will be an easy one for me!
I had the biggest smile on my face all through your marvelous video, Matt. I could write a book on my experiences with 45's, many which I still have. Thank you for making my day. 😊
Thanks Rick! Going through these was like reading a diary!
Boy, Matt, you've hit a nostalgic chord for me. When I was eleven, the very first record I went to the store to buy with my own money was the 45 of "Indian Reservation"--followed shortly afterward by "Signs" by the Five Man Electrical Band. I played them on my own primitive little record player, very much like the one you've got there.
I'll have to do more of these trips down memory lane....
Matt, can you still play any of these 45's??
@@alanriley9621 These shown here are so beat up I wouldn't play them. I just keep them for nostalgia's sake.
I have both of those.
Matt, good to know. I saved mine for that same reason. I'm glad I have your wisdom on my side.
I always liked the Capital 45 labels with the orange and yellow swirl. The first 45 we had was Georgie Girl by the Seekers 1966 or 67 on Capital. It's cool how your record player still lights up.
Linda Ronstadt did a good cover of I Can't Let Go in the late 70s.
Nice one Matt. We had Return to Sender, Roy's Blue Bayou. I remember buying You Really Got Me by The Kinks. I'm Crying by the Animals was converted at school to a singalong washing up after a party to I'm Drying! Later of course Strawberry Fields/Penny Lane, the grand finale for singles.
I recognized quite a few of those 45’s from my collection! Although, I currently have the entire Colgems collection on The Monkees.
My aunt Marlene bought me 3 45s and a player when I was in the first grade (1958). There was an Elvis, a Claude King, and a Patti Page. I was amazed.
Matt I also have been listening to music since I was three years old and now I am 63. I remember buying somebody to love by The Jefferson Airplane when I was five. Mrs Richardson the owner of the record shop, asked me,mark why do you want this, i Replied Matt, because the word love is in it.
That's a great story. You were a pretty advanced kid to be listening to the Airplane!
What a cool record player! It looks like the glass would get hot lol.
Appreciate your showing these.. I began listening to records about the same age you mentioned. Lately, I have made a list by decades of what I consider my favorite 45s by year.. One Way Ticket by Sedaka is one of his best, imo- Love treasure of B sides. Remember when records 'skipped?' I had Dusty Springfield's 'You Don't Have To Say You Love Me' and the line ' life seems dead' would skip.. Now if I hear the song, that line stands out! Great collection from you
Thanks for the comments!
It was late summer of 1963 and I was turning 12 years old. Using some birthday cash I purchased my first 45, The Martian Hop by the Ran Dells. Didn’t yet have a record player(would get one on my next birthday in 1964) so I played it my older sister’s hi-fi over and over again. It was the start of a long love affair with music that lasts to this day.
I scan YT looking for posts on 45 rpm collecting, and it was sooo nice to find your video. The 45 rpm gets nowhere near the respect and attention it deserves for many reasons. For those of us who grew up in the 50s/60s/70s it was usually our first foray into buying and playing records. We listened to Top 40 radio, and as cash-strapped kids/teenagers, it was much easier to come up with less than a dollar and head to the local record or dept. store and buy our favorite single than to buy an LP. I was fascinated by records before I even understood what they were. Today, I have nearly 10K of these little plastic gems, all original releases in original sleeves. Lots of promos and rarities. I do collect LPs as well, and love them, but the 45 rpm holds a special place in my heart and always will. Hope you will post more of these!
You are right, the 45 doesn't get respect. I will have to do a volume 2!
The Grass Roots The Classics IV, and the Association are touring together-my wife and I saw them last week-great show!
Twin sons from different mothers. You basically tell my story with the only difference being the specific 45s we were introduced to as youngsters. With the exception of 5 records:
"Sugar Sugar", which I acquired from my sister. And similar to you, I was partial to many B sides. In this case, "Melody Hill".
"Something/Come Together", which I acquired from a cousin heading off to Vietnam.
"Temptation Eyes" - Mom bought for me by request.
"Jam Up And Jelly Tight" - Mom bought for me by request (loved the B side - "Moontalk")
"Indian Reservation" - Mom bought for me by request.
Looks like your mom had the re-issue of "Dawn (Go Away)".
Wow, very similar! The Dawn re-issue was a rebuy I think. I probably broke the original.
I was a preschooler when I took an interest in records. My parents had a stack of 10-inch 78's that were so fragile. I must've been 5 when they started buying my children's Peter Pan records. I was 13 when my parents invested in a console Magnavox Astrosonic radio/automatic phono. Thenn I began collecting seriously. Today I have over 5,000 45's, still in their paper/photo sleeves.
That's fantastic to hear. I too, collect original release 45s in their original sleeves. I have nearly 10K of these plastic gems. I'd love to see the 45 get more respect- they were the first foray into music for many of us at that time.
@@jeffreylind3739 Music publishing originally determined a hit song. Then when the record industry kicked in, the 78 rpm single release determined what was the hit song. Albums came along gradually in the 1940's. When rock n roll began, the 45 single was the popular medium -- small, portable, easy to handle. Up to the Sixties a band had to have a hit single single or two, before being considered for an album. By the Seventies Top 40 radio started to fade, with record albums taking the sales lead. Still, the 45rpm single was the hit version of the song that we remember.
To quote Blue Oyster Cult; "Time to play B-sides"!
O the pain. Don't look back! to selling my soundtrack collection around 1990 & too my 45s. Mostly 1960s vinyl, near mint in every way. Didn't I at least hold onto my Beatles EPs? can't find them in the relics of what's left.
And so goes 'See Emily Play' & 'Satisfaction' & 'Messin About On the River' & 'Green Green Grass of Home' & 'Man In a Suitcase theme' & 'Sunshine Superman' & 'San Francisco' & 'Itchykoo Park'' & various Byrds & 'Meet Me On the Corner' into the '70s, & also, like you, 'Jennifer Eccles'...
( *Eccles* : a place bordering the lowrise flats where Graham Nash (& my granny) used to live early 1960s - - on the skids now but quaint back then.)
By mid-1970s mine was the 1st teen generation that could afford to archive (not that we called it that, or even 'collecting' - - our records just piled up by default & before we knew it, we had a storage problem) 2nd-hand records from the past 2 decades which hitherto would have been too expensive in relation to wages to buy any more than a couple a month.
(That's why Beatles & others had scruples about including a single song on an LP, manipulating buyers into buying twice. That's why, remembering his late-50s record-buying, McCartney made a big thing about going the extra mile in 1960s packaging to give value for money - - opposite mentality of Apple superdeluxe editions.)
Seventies teens could now go out on any Saturday & blow our wages on a stash of 2nd-hand records which, when new, would have been the equivalent of 6 months of record-spending a decade before.
The Seventies gets bad press about languishing in recession, but the number of records in a working class household like mine by 1974 was suddenly way, way beyond what records we had in the 1960s. All you had to do was compare what I had to what my 5 years-elder brother had at the same age. And he did, frequently.
Around 1980 there was one 2nd-hand record shop at the top of my road & at least another 15 in Manchester city center & as many new record retailers, all walking distance from each other. So shopping for records any given Saturday really did entail visiting at least 31 record shops.
This was before carboot sales was a UK thing, when city center rates were low-rent & any trader with a few contacts could set up business in a dusty fleapit next to a pornshop-posing-as-newsagent or/& an aquarium around the corner from everybody else's dusty fleapit-pornnewsagent-aquarium.
Morrissey served briefly in one record shop here ('Yanks') until he was beaten up outside one day. Ian Curtis served briefly in another until he beat himself up
Yes, the 70s saw a lifestyle change for the better in spite of the recessions and gas shortages. I may do a video on that, showing just my collection of pop culture memorabilia as proof 🙂
My first 45 was The Royal Guardsmen-"Snoopy and the Red Baron"-thanks for this nice trip down memory lane!
Verses the red baron
I remember it was on a red black and white label
@@patgalvez4563 Here in the U.K. it was on the black Statside label. I still have it. I like the B side ‘I Needed You’
10, 20, 30, 40, 50 or more. Hells yeah!
Man you kept everything! I have been carrying around a big box of LPs for 30 plus years but lost the 45’s over the years.
ALOT OF THOSE B SIDES SHOULD HAVE BEEN THE A SIDE,like the song MY BONNIE,the A side ,HAIR the B side by GILDED CAGE,1969 ,HAIR should have been the A side
Oh, my god,,,’DAWN GO AWAY “- WAS MYVERY FAVORITE SONG AS A 6 YEAR OLD[PRE-BEATLES infatuation] , andit still shakes me to my soul , every time ihearit today-great walkdown’musicalmemory lane’ -Matt, thanx !!!
I started buying 45s in early 1970 at age 8: 8 Days a week & Paperback Writer were the first two I bought-$0.88 each at Target. I still have them along with all kinds of other singles. Picture Sleeves really enhance the appeal of 45s.
Thank you So much for doing this Matt!!!
My pleasure, Robbie.
Very fun! It’s funny: the 1 Association record I had as a sister hand-me-down was one you didn’t! (Along Comes Mary). Also: the Gilligan Women song was You Need Us, so close! 😁👍🏼
A great memory I have- an old buddy of mine (we were around college age) used to bring stuff over to recommend and lend, and likewise go through my collection to borrow. I remember him dropping off a pile of stuff for me to hear, including Clarence "Frogman" Henry, stuff like that- and then giving me incredible amounts of hell when he discovered Vicki Carr's "It Must Be Him" among my stacks. He wouldn't let up on that one. When he was leaving with his selections, (Of course) I caught him smuggling out Vicki Carr in the bunch. Cold busted.
The Honeybees(Mary Ann/Ginger/Mrs. Howell)- "You Need Us". Looking forward to seeing more of Dan's, uh... I mean your collection!
Yes! You Need Us!
I'm not the only one to "toss" rejected 45's! The summer of 69, our family spent weekends camping along a flood control lake in NE Ohio. During the early summer weeks, flood control lakes are often at their maximum after spring rains, and that summer was especially high (pun intended), with water covering the back properties of lakeside homes. I took that opportunity to wander along those lawns, enjoying the feel of grass beneath my feet instead of the usual mud. So I'm strolling along when I felt something solid under one of my feet. I reached down, and pulled up a 45 single! It was The Doors Love Her Madly/Don't Go No Further. I was familiar with their radio hit Light My Fire, but nothing else at that point (age 11). I carried it up to the rec center record player to give it a spin. I don't recall which side I played first, but neither song did it for me. In fact, I was so disappointed, I went back to the lake and tossed it back in! I didn't want to leave it near that record player for someone else to star playing it over and over! Yes, I can now appreciate Love Her Madly, smiling at the memory.
I still have 90% of the singles I had as a kid. Going back to my cousin's early Elvis 45s. My fave though is the one that mum bought for me and my brother, a lil single called I Want to Hold Your Hand by a new band to us, The Beatles. I still love playing them (and adding to them in the hope that one day I will have enough spare cash to buy a jukebox :) )
I loved 45's that had picture sleeves --- Beatles , Raiders and the Monkees were cool to pick up at garage sales ! 🙂 I also bought 45's from mail catalogues like American Pie Records .There was a chain of stores called National Record Mart that had loads of oldies in the mid 70's .
I'm also very much a B-side fiend, and you are SO right about the Beach Boys "Girl Don't Tell Me", and some of the others as well. But I admittedly pre-date you by a decade or so, I could create a very lengthy list of B-side favorites of mine.
Hey Matt, thanks for sharing some of your collection. It’s so funny that I have some of those same 45s! I used to like looking at the different labels too, and it seemed like such a treat when my dad came home with one that had a picture sleeve. The record case (that I still have) came with little numbered labels you can put on the record & an index card that you could write the titles on. 😄🎶
I never realised that ‘Girl Don’t Tell Me,’ was the B-side to ‘Barbara Ann.’ The B Side being WAY better than the A Side.
this was an interesting video! i love 45s... and continue to buy them when they are around! they make for such an intimate experience! 45s make you breathe differently than 33s do! there is something about the 45 spin! thank you, matt
Funny - I had a very similar start to record collecting. I also remember identifying songs based on label design and to this day I always remember what label 45s are on...
45s. Of course, my first records were 45s. The very first was Gimme Dat Ding by the Pipkins. My grandmother dug it! (She didn't care for my records as I got older.) I set the family phonograph on repeat and listened to it over and over, until my father thundered that he didn't want to hear Gimme Dat Ding one more time! It had what I thought was a really cool red Capitol label. I got an Apple record too, it was Helen Wheels by Paul McCartney & Wings. Those two acquisitions have to have been several years apart. I had My Maria by BW Stevenson, and admired that orange RCA label.
I bought those records when they were current. It didn't occur to me that you could go back and listen to older stuff, until a high school friend with whom I shared an interest in rock and records lent me albums by the Beatles and Jefferson Airplane. At about that time a copy of Retrospective: The Best of Buffalo Springfield appeared in my parents' collection; I have no idea how. It had that cool yellow Atco label. But I had no idea what it was, and thought the name and the cover were goofy. On closer inspection I realised I knew who a couple of the band members were, saw that one of the song titles was Rock And Roll Woman, and it began to dimly dawn on me that this was some kind of proto-cool artifact. I grew to love every one of those songs. I was getting an education!
I was beginning to buy cut-outs by mail order, and also discounted but uncut CBS records, kind of the precursor to the Nice Price series. The catalog noted that all Apple records (e.g. Badfinger) were uncut. One album that was available this way was Let It Be, so with my newfound interest I ordered that, and it had that cool red Apple label. A different friend lent me his copy of All Things Must Pass, with those beautiful orange Apple labels. By this time I'd been reading what I could, and I'd read about Phil Spector. My parents now had a better stereo too, and Wah-Wah was my auditory example of the Wall of Sound I'd been reading about. (I don't think I'd heard the Ronettes or anything.) It was (to me) glorious!
Still without an easy way to get to record stores (or much money) I bought discounted and cut-out records by mail order, most importantly by the Byrds. I had to. I'd read about them. No one had them in their collections, and no radio station I ever heard played them. Got great albums like Turn! Turn! Turn!, 5th Dimension, and Sweetheart of the Rodeo. But I had to pay full price for some albums, like Abbey Road and the White Album. And I had a label disappointment! Though my copies of the latter came in cardboard covers with the paper graphics glued on, in the old fashion, and I think even said Apple Records on the covers, the records inside were red Capitol. (This was the fall of '77. Later issues had poster board covers.) They were fine-sounding copies, but I just couldn't get over my hang-up that to me that just didn't look right. The labels for those albums were supposed to be green Apple, not red Capitol. This little problem of mine wasn't something I could tell anyone else about without them looking at me funny.
Throughout my collecting, though it was the music that was the impetus, I've always enjoyed the graphics, including the labels, as well as what was actually in the grooves. And to this day, aside from whatever sonic considerations there may or may not be, I feel that certain labels just look right for certain albums. Jeff Beck's Blow By Blow should have an orange Epic label, not blue. Spirit's 12 Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus should have the yellow Epic label, not orange. The Columbia label thankfully didn't change much, but the old, old, six-eye version, though it was well before my time, is really the coolest.
That Spirit LP 12 Dreams is one of the greatest! Thanks for your story really enjoyed it.
Thanks for sharing, Jon!
Matt, so fun going down memory lane with you! I bought my first 45, Let It Be, at the age of 9 from the Variety Store in my small town in Michigan. We lived a short drive from Lake Michigan and listened to our favorite AM radio stations WOKY in Milwaukee and WLS in Chicago. I had loved the Beatles from the age of 3, when they appeared on the Ed Sullivan show. Luckily my mother loved music also and we used to listen to her old 78 records, so as much as she sometimes complained of songs like "Downtown" being too repetitive, we always got to listen to whatever we wanted and would stay up late at night listening to our transistor radio or car radio when the stations came in especially good! I was also fortunate to have acquired my 6 year older sister's ecclectic collection of 45's when she went away to college, as she had no way of playing them there. She was into folk and country, some of which I grew to love, but overall my tastes were more pop/rock, so the Beatles were always my first choice. Little did I know they had already broken up by the time I bought that first 45...
I live across the lake from you in Milwaukee, so used to listen to WOKY too!
That same older sister purchased 2 WOKY albums back in the day, which I also was lucky enough to inherit!
I'm recognizing the labels before you even take them off the stack, and I remember almost every one of these songs. Wishing you had shown close-ups. 😎 I'm the youngest of five, and there were singles ('50s at the time) being played in our house from the day they brought me home from the hospital. Started buying my own when I was eight. I still have all of them, including "Hey Jude" and "Get Back."
Hey Perry, thanks for commenting!
That record player is just too cool! What brand is it?
It is a SilverTone Solid State Sound Instant Play.
Does anyone remember The Close n play record player - got that one when I was 4-- buzzed out all my moms 45s-- Johnny Horton , Johnny Cash - Winchester Cathedral - I think I recall Stormy Weather by the Five Sharps-- NAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH Just kidding on that one SUCKERS!!!
I remember the close and plays. I didn't have one but a couple friends did.
Matt. . . this was so much fun. . . great memories . . . . I too started spinning the tunes (45s) at age 2 which was 1954 for me . . LPs were great , but back then as kids/teenagers, it was about listening to, trading, inadvertently breaking 45 singles . . . we are not talking audiophile recordings, which is what makes 45 collecting and playing so special .. FWIW, I still have maybe 500 45s. . . I love your videos
Thank you, Charles!
Great episode! I was never a big collector of singles, but I still have the majority of what I had as a kid. I may have mentioned my 'cool uncle' to you before, and when I was around 6 he gave me a lot of records, including a stack of 45s, which I still have. Among them are original pressings of "Psychotic Reaction" by Count Five, "I Had Too Much To Dream Last Night" by the Electric Prunes, "I Can't Explain" by The Who, just a bunch of really cool stuff. When I started to collect vinyl again a few years back, I found a few original Box Tops (with Alex Chilton) singles, that same Beatles you show here on Vee Jay, original press of "You Really Got Me" by The Kinks, etc. There were a few I bought in the early-mid 70's, like The Raspberries "Go All The Way" and "I Wanna Be With You", "No More Mr Nice Guy" by Alice Cooper, etc. I'm glad I never got rid of these, great memories, music, and sentimental value.
Nice collection, Jim!
The 45 that first fascinated me when I was a little kid in 1966 was “They're Coming They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha-Haaa!” By Napoleon XIV. And the B-side is even more bizarre-it has the song backwards: th-cam.com/video/4gbvcEkuFFI/w-d-xo.htmlsi=jVaOZCJYvw0ejMd1
Yes! I had a friend that had that one.
Thanks for this look at 45's. I only have about 300 (or more) from the 1950s to the last one I bought in 1989 by Roy Orbison called "You Got It." Your album collection makes mine (100 or slightly more) look like a very tiny collection. My CD collection started in the 1980s and is over 500, and again, it is small compared to many collectors. Most of my collection is purchased new, some early records were gifts, and about 30 of the 1950s 45s are from one of my older sisters. I have one loss so far ... It WAS a Buddy Holly and the Crickets 45 of "That Will Be The Day." It got caught between a stack of records and a wooden back wall and broke in half which, at the time, broke my heart. I have pretty much stopped buying as I have as much as I can take care of.😁 I'm 77 and still love listening to music. Not all, but maybe 90% of the collection is Rock and Roll. Anyway, I have no idea what will happen to my collection when the time comes. Maybe, just maybe, my older son would be the curator.😊 Records are not a time machine but it is our mind. The music is the transporter.
I enjoy your videos. Dennis.
Thank you Dennis. You are so correct - music it the transporter.
Thanks for sharing those gems, and backstories. Approx your age, no one in my family collected 45's. Mom and I were into LP's, but my kid sister did own a GE portable player, and a selection of 45's, all Christmas gifts in 1970. She and I spent nearly all of that winter break listening to those same 45's over and over. The big favorite for both of us was The Beatles Let It Be/You Know My Name. Both sides were played equally. I remember being blown away that the same band could create those two very different songs. Sure, I grew up listening to them, and knew they were innovators, but the stark difference between those two tracks on the same 45 was such a marvel to me. They remain favorites to this day, along with 20 or more other Beatles favorites. Other 45's my sister acquired that year (that I can remember) were Cherry Hill Park by Billy Joe Royal, Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head by BJ thomas, Bridge Over Troubled Water by Simon and Garfunkel, Close To You by The Carpenters, Come And Get It by Badfinger, and Patches by Clarence Carter. My Christmas gift that year was a GE cassette player/recorder, which turned out to be the start of my career working with another tape tape recording medium - video.
Great story! Cherry Hill Park was a favorite of mine at 4 yrs old. My parents got embarrassed bc I would sing it out loud constantly 😂
Wow Matt - so much I could comment on here, really touched a nerve - I was born in 64 and like you, was into the spinning around 2 or so. I vividly remember my mom & dad taking me to White's dept store in Middle Island NY to pick up that new record "Windy" which I played at least 3 times that night when we got home. Still a fave. Check the flip of Green Tambourine, a group composition "No Help From Me" which is as far a 180 from the A as one can get, a psych rocker. There's video of them doing it live back in the day on TH-cam. And as for The Hollies' "Try It", check out this video of a 1971 broadcast from a Dutch radio pirate ship that gets BOMBED on air - they were playing "Try It" when it all went down, it is fascinating and gripping listening. th-cam.com/video/tLaJxP7ATBs/w-d-xo.htmlsi=rlqpYqNBbGCZ59ZB Love the videos, thanks for the great material!
Hey Chris! Thanks for sharing a bit of your 45 history! It took me years before I could appreciate the flip of Green Tambourine!
Hi Matt from Buffalo NY. Wings are on me if you are ever in town! Love the Channel. I had Bang Shang A Lang as a cut out record from the back of a cereal box. I don't remeber what kind, Sugar Snaps?
How about a deep dive into Three Dog Night albums? TY!
I may take you up on the wings! I had a couple cereal box records - a Bobby Sherman!
This was a lot of fun! I have a collection of 45s from when I was a teen in the 1980s but it they were mostly older songs reissued. I got a few Beatles reissues one of which had a mono mix of Revolution which I loved. I also got Spies Like Us by Paul McCartney which I liked at the time (not having much knowledge of his solo back catalog) but now I don’t regard it loved hearing the Indian Reservation which was #1 the week I was born. Thanks very much Matt!
My pleasure, Bill.
From Ed Ames to Cream. You sound like me. I was also a B side maven. Regarding the Carpenters, I bought Please Mr. Postman but I flipped it over and played This Masquerade, still one of their greatest recordings ever.
I will have to do a part two because I bought Yesterday Once More by the Carpenters. I still have the picture sleeve!
Ah... those were the days. HiFi was crap, We didn't care. Records got scratched. We didn't care. AM radio was it and it sounded like crap. We didn't care. Car radios, home radios and those help held transistor radios were perfect for the AM radio crap sound. All-and-all, the music was fun, even if a lot of it was forgettable junk. Those were there days... my friend.
Yeah, I had no concept of audio fidelity 🙂
I don't comment much here or anywhere on TH-cam, but this was a fun little video. 45s don't get a lot of attention anymore. While I love collecting LPs, I still enjoy 45s and have a rather extensive collection.
I had fun doing this and it gave me a good opportunity to talk about my early music journey. I appreciate you commenting, Jason. Thank you.
I did *not* realise Nazereth's best song wasn't even theirs!
Just like me - Paul Revere - great song!! This is my favorite EVER video by you.
Wow, well I will have to do more personal collection videos - thanks for the nice compliment!
Just Like Me was one of my favorites too as a kid and today! Punk b4 that term existed! I just knew it rocked
I had Bang shangalang! Lol. My brother used to decorate his side of our room with Beatles picture sleeves… If only we knew.
Girl Don’t tell be is a GREAT song. You’d of definitely had the coolest record player in my neighborhood.
Girl don't tell me....at the ripe old age of 72 I heard it on a Sarasota radio station... first time I heard it for some reason...on my music playlist on my phone...turns out my favorite beach boy song
One of my faves!
"The Man With The Cigar" is still my favorite Herman's Hermits song! I played the Hell out of it as a kid!
Almost no one seems to know that song! Glad to know someone else does 🙂
That was so much fun!!! I wish I still had my first record player ( bought at Western Auto) for $20 in 1965...I was 2 as well...Of course, bought by my folks.... Peace and Love, Terry and Julia Tutor
Thanks, Terry!
Wichita Lineman was my first 45... still get a bit emotional when I hear the tune. Cheers
That song takes me back every time.
Good One Matt! We Both Said Terrible At The Same Time, Then I Laughed. ☮🎹🌎
Love it! Thanks Spike!
Great collection and great presentation. Loved it and had some laughs. Thanks!
Great collection, I was the DJ for school dances in 7th through 10th grade so I had a large collection of 45s which I store in the original small suitcase type box.I pull them out once in a while.
COME TO FATHER by APOLOGETIX a great parody of COME TOGETHER on TH-cam
Thank you so much for sharing Matt, really enjoyed this.
I got my first 45 probably in December 1964. It was "All Day And All Of The Night"/"I Gotta Move" by The Kinks. In the early years I leaned more toward LPs than 45s. I had limited funds from my parents and had to choose very carefully how to spend it! My first record of any kind was "Meet The Beatles", bought in March 1964 when our family finally got a record player! My total collection of 45s is still only about 300 with maybe 100 of them obtained in the last 4 years as I attempted to (and successfully) compiled a complete collection of U.S. Apple Records 45s from 1968-1975. I have them all and I have all of the available picture sleeves for them except one where only one picture sleeve exists - in the hands of a very serious collector! I'm pretty much done collecting 45s at my advanced age of 69. Now it's about time to sell them!
I have maybe a 200 singles and I may too sell some of the ones that don't have sentimental value.
@@popgoesthe60s52I could easily part with maybe half of mine - the rest are somewhat sentimental. I have to keep telling myself to stop looking on eBay for ones to buy! I weakened a few weeks ago and picked up the Capitol 4-song EP by The Beatles, "Four By The Beatles". It's kind of rare in good condition and I got a good price but I really didn't need it!
Matt, I have a couple of hundred 45s. Mine range from the 50s, 60s, 70s and 80s. I acquired most of the 80s 45s from my brother in law. He had over 200 of them and he passed away in 2013 at the age of 49. My mother in law gave me all of them and the albums, and even some old albums she had from her younger years. I have added to my collection from time to time when I find something at Goodwill. One day several years ago, I was at a media store which sold records, comics, memorabilia and a lot more. They had several 45s by the Monkees. I offered to buy all of them if they would sell them to me at $1 each. They did and I have them. Enjoyed your video. Did you ever read my comment months ago where I had requested that you do one of your video docs about The Association? I'd love to see one sir. Thanks.
Hello! Thank you for sharing your story. I actually have covered the Association on this channel with a 4-part series. Check it out: th-cam.com/video/fCLZznRQeOw/w-d-xo.html
@@popgoesthe60s52 Thanks matt for making me aware of your series on the Association. I am guilty like most of us are when we find a new channel and subscribe and start watching someone, meaning, that I haven't gone back and watched all of your older vids as I need to. But since you shared this with me, I will definitely watch the entire 4 part series and I will comment most likely on each part. I have two copies of their Association Live at the University Of Utah back in 1970. This was my introduction to this great band. My mother was a member of the Columbia Record House back in the 60s and 70s, as most parents were back then. This was the album of the month at one point and I got the card because I liked the way the album cover looked. I was around 12 years old in 1971 around the time I discovered the Association. I hid the card and they sent the album. Mom paid for it and she did allow me to keep it. I still have that original copy today, plus another I bought at a Media/record store several years ago. Unfortunately I never saw the band live in concert. Not even after Brian Cole passed away from the drug overdose. But they will always be one of top 5 bands from the 60s/70s. You will see my comments on the series as soon as I have time to watch them. Thanks again for sharing this info.
B-sides are great! Sometimes better than the hit side
My first was Under New Management by the Barron Knights. Americans won’t know them but they were on Parlophone, the label for the Beatles and Hollies.
They spoofed hits of the day on themed 45s. The other day on a sixties tv compilation they had David and Jonathan Lovers of the World Unite. These are the lyrics for the Barron Knights version which I remember verbatim from Under New Management:
Brothers of the works let’s strike
Come to the meeting on your bike
Leave your Rolls Royce in the yard
Don’t forget your union card
We will strike till they agree
To stop all this redundancy
Britain was having massive problems with strikes at the time.
They were hugely popular and had their own tv series. To show how far back they go, their first hit was Call Up the Groups. There was a rhyme in it Send the Searchers to Algiers for about a thousand years. Who remembers the Battle of Algiers?
Wow, that is one band I don't know! Thanks Joanna!
Wow The North Will Rise Again! Had the same problems here in Pennsylvania. The Fall song is universal!
Thank you Matt for great memories of 45's. I too starting at age 2 playing 45's, my favorite was Chewy Chewy by Ohio Express. I played it so much my cousins still get a laugh today.
My cousin had Chewy, Chewy and it was the only 45 he wouldn't trade.
@@popgoesthe60s52 We must be second cousins! Love this channel.
Dan wants his records back 😂
Another classic episode of Pop Goes the 60s. I loved the 45s as well. And had the 3 apple Beatles singles that Matt mentioned. Another favorite was The Guess Who's" No Sugar Tonite". I have a question for all you Apple Beatles owners. Do you find the song titles difficult to read on the green A side of the lps . Or is it just me? I'm referrring to full lps rather than just singles.
I've noticed that the printing on the Apple labels differ from plant to plant so some are easy to read and others not.
@@popgoesthe60s52 Thanks Matt. I must have got one from a lousy plant.
I have a bunch of my Mom’s 45’s. There are at least a dozen original Elvis RCA 45’s. Man are they beat up.
I also put tape on my 45's, but for a different reason. If you had a record player with an automatic record changer and you used it often enough, the center of the record would smooth out so that they would slide over each other, causing the sound to distort. Tape improved the friction and stopped that from happening. Regarding your Monkees picture sleeve - my dad took us kids on a tour of an RCA factory at some point in the 1970's and they handed out Monkees 45's gratis at the end of tour. I got I'm a Believer. Some of my siblings got the one you have. Take a Giant Step is great song.
Wow would have flipped to visit a record plant as a kid! Take a Giant Step is awesome. I also had I'm a Believer b/w Stepping Stone which I wore out!
What a treat to go to RCA! Thanks for sharing!
Unfortunately, all my 45s were stolen during my time at boarding school in the '70s. Ones I remember included "Satisfaction" by the Rolling Stones, The Beatles' "Let It Be" and "Hey Jude," "Midnight Hour" by Gladys Knight and the Pips, "Who Needs Ya" by Steppenwolf, "Hello I Love You" and "Unknown Soldier" by the Doors (given to me by Jac Holzman's son, who was a schoolmate at the time). I actually had several rock albums before I started buying 45s.
"Midnight Hour" by Gladys Knight and the Pips? You sure about that?
You're right. It was "Heard It Through The Grapevine."@@shyman99
Sorry to hear about the theft, Tom!
One reason you might like the Beach Boys' "Girl Don't Tell Me" is that it is very similar in places to the Beatles' "Ticket To Ride"!
I actually didn't hear Ticket to Ride until much later. Maybe that's why I like Ticket To Ride so much!
Yeah the breakdown in-between the verses! Good point
I've got hundreds of 45s and now I'm spinning 78s. Dance party!
Excellent!
Cool!😎That was fun👍
The very first record I ever owned, got it upon original release in 1965, was the 45 of Help! with I'm Down on the B-side. I played both sides to death in my bedroom. My siblings didn't complain, even though I cranked the volume way up (headphones were not a mass market thing in those days). My mom & dad had bought a little record player for my birthday and my mom took me to the store and said pick out a record for your new record player. I already knew what I wanted. Help! was number one on the radio that week and I loved it! For years, I couldn't understand the lyrics to I'm Down. Man buys ring, woman throws it away -- just didn't register in my brain, couldn't figure it out, but it didn't matter, sounded hot whatever Paul was belting out. LOL!
Those early purchases were so special. All these 45s are so beat up, but I can't seem to part with them.
Some of my "45 collection" has 33 speed! I think the coolest are those old fashioned cereal box cut out recordings. I'm surprised they still work just fine; admittedly I rarely play them for fear of damaging them. I have other 45 sized records that are so thin (sheet of paper thin, but made of plastic) they bend far too easily but they too play just fine!
My mother also loved hearing some B-side singles too Billy Joe Royal's Oh, What a Night over A-side Down in the Boondocks, Gary Lewis and the Playboys "Without a Word of Warning" over "Save Your Heart For Me", Herman's Hermit's "No Milk Today" over "There's a Kind of Hush", Boris Pickett's "Monster Mash Party" was more fun than "Monster Mash", and Uncle Mitch and his Detriot Wheel's "Tally Ho' was listened to more than "Linda Sue Dixon"
You hit the bullseye with this one Matt!
Allow me a brief jaunt down memory lane:
My older sister had a ton of 45`s and when I was about four I learned to work her record player. (we called it a pick-up) It sat on the floor and i would sit hunched over it while the records played. I couldn`t read yet - but as you point out - I recogized the labels to my favourites. I loved to watch them spinning from my vantage point. The Capitol swirl label was fantastic and many others were positively hypnotic. I remember Daydream by the Lovin Spoonful (as I learned when I started to read) was on a spectacular red and yellow label called Kama Sutra which looked amazing when spinning. I still have it - although it gave up the ghost long ago - and it remains quite possibly my favourite pop song from the sixties.
Tonight I will open my box of 45`s and give some of them a spin.
Merci from Canada.
Loved the Kama Sutra label had Summer in the City and Nashville Cats and You Didn't Have To Be so Nice! As a kid the Uni label was my favorite to watch spin. Strawberry Alarm Clock- Tomorrow
Here in Canada we had The Guess Who who were on the Nimbus labelwhich was quite psychedelic. Also CCR were on Fantasy which was very attractive also. Great memories.@@colingillis5989
Hey Robert, I was the first born so I had to rely on records from my cousings and of course, my parents. Thanks for sharing and glad you liked the video!
Fun episode Matt in showing your 45's and sharing your stories and memories, somehow 45's have that magical effect of making us stroll down memory lane, for example that Ed Ames 45 of My Cup Runneth Over With Love was a Big favorite of my dad, - I also have that Apple 45 of Hey Jude and Revolution, as well as a Capitol swirl of I Want To Hold Your Hand and This Boy, other prized 45's that I have are of Elvis (Sun Records) Thats Alright Mama/ Blue Moon Of Kentucky, The Dave Clark Five' Because/Theme Without A Name, and The Animals House Of The Rising Sun and Talkin About You. -But one big childhood memory for me is the unmistakable smell of Vinyl thats something that always comes to my mind when it comes to 45"s and LP's -Love the smell of old records. -Anyways Matt Great presentation and Nice record player👍
Everything That Touches You (RIP Terry Kirkman 💔) as a song and Birthday as an Album are each #1 in their category for late '60s psychedelia, my favorite genre. Best of the whole decade, in my rankings of course. ♥️♥️ Happy Easter. 🐰🐇
First 45 I got was "Whispering Bells" by the Del-Vikings. Playing it for the first time was magical for me.
Hey Matt can't believe you kept all this stuff!!.......Also can't believe you listened to "Revolution" instead of "Hey Jude"!!
I first started buying records when I was about 10 years old in 1957. I remember buying Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly, Little Richard, Fats Domino and Jerry Lee Lewis. No albums, only 45's.
That video was great! Thanks for showing your old 45s! I found my old ones recently. My hand-me-downs were I Feel Fine/She's A Woman (Beatles), Love Potion Number Nine/Hi-Heel Sneakers (The Searchers), Tell Her No/Leave Me Be (The Zombies). The Zombies 45 label has a really cool green & yellow dancing Parrot on it with a hat & cane.
Good show Matt. In my single digit years I got hand me downs from my Uncle's (Mom's brothers). I particularly remember "Keep A Knock'n" Little Richard on Specialty & "Respectable" The Isley Brothers on RCA Victor. I used to play the B-side for the Isley Brothers too "Without A Song". Allot of memories come back through music.