Puffin
14-01-2016, 19:53
A new member has just joined for Hilversum, which got my memory going.
When I was a kid (about 7 or 8 years old) we had a Radiogram (a highly prized and highly polished piece of furniture) made by HMV with a heavy hinged lid with a plaque inside the lid of the HMV dog (Nipper - good pub quiz question answer :) ) This contraption housed a turntable and radio. The radio was a MW & LW jobbie with a dial and cursor that went up and down the wavelengths as you turned it. It had these amazing names written on the radio stations and Hilversum was one of them. I used to twiddle the knob just to hear the strange noises that you could make as you crossed the wavelengths of different transmitters (bit like electronic birds). The turntable had a stacking system for 45's so you could play about 6 in a row. My funniest memory is getting my dad to listen to my latest purchase, The Isley Brothers - Behind a Painted Smile - a bit too "way out" for me he said:D
We lived in a terraced house in Battersea. My sister is 3.5 years older than me and she was the one who started me on the Motown road. We lived in the top of the house when we were young and she used to get her friends around and I would be "The Record Man", I had to push the radiogram up to the sash windows and blast out whatever the girls wanted, so that they could literally "Dance in The Street". Happy days.
Other 45's played on it and bought by me were oddly, The Green Grass of Home (Tom Jones), Have You Seen Your Mother Baby Standing in The Shadows (Stones), Something in The Air (Thunderclap Newman) and 33 of The Messiah......:mental: Very eclectic tastes.
When I was a kid (about 7 or 8 years old) we had a Radiogram (a highly prized and highly polished piece of furniture) made by HMV with a heavy hinged lid with a plaque inside the lid of the HMV dog (Nipper - good pub quiz question answer :) ) This contraption housed a turntable and radio. The radio was a MW & LW jobbie with a dial and cursor that went up and down the wavelengths as you turned it. It had these amazing names written on the radio stations and Hilversum was one of them. I used to twiddle the knob just to hear the strange noises that you could make as you crossed the wavelengths of different transmitters (bit like electronic birds). The turntable had a stacking system for 45's so you could play about 6 in a row. My funniest memory is getting my dad to listen to my latest purchase, The Isley Brothers - Behind a Painted Smile - a bit too "way out" for me he said:D
We lived in a terraced house in Battersea. My sister is 3.5 years older than me and she was the one who started me on the Motown road. We lived in the top of the house when we were young and she used to get her friends around and I would be "The Record Man", I had to push the radiogram up to the sash windows and blast out whatever the girls wanted, so that they could literally "Dance in The Street". Happy days.
Other 45's played on it and bought by me were oddly, The Green Grass of Home (Tom Jones), Have You Seen Your Mother Baby Standing in The Shadows (Stones), Something in The Air (Thunderclap Newman) and 33 of The Messiah......:mental: Very eclectic tastes.