A Rockin' Roll Fantasy Lives Again!

[cb123]

I found this little baby just today, and the poor thing wouldn't power-up at all...completely flat lined, not even a sinus rhythm...That is until I hit it with a little DeoxIT...Pure Electronic Adrenaline. It was like an epinephrine shot straight to its heart! If you ever do any electronic work, remember to use DeoxIT...This commercial was brought to you by Desoto...Travel in style...Travel Desoto...Anything else is not even worth pouring gas into!

 I also got my first Andy Warhol today. I don't know if I want to play it or frame it, maybe I'll do both. It's kinda odd, it's a twelve inch disk, but it plays at forty-five. 

 

[cb123]

I cleaned all its exterior surfaces with a record cleaner that I get form Mobile Records. It's the very best cleaner that I've ever used...it has no comparison! Mr. Glass, the owner of the record shop says, " It's a secrete formula," but as you can see it has LOVE in it. So what I think it is, it is but merely water simply stirred by Debbie Harry's pinky-toe, which must give it magical properties!  

 

[arh1953]

Supertone-quite a find!! I like the fabric on the case, it screams rockabilly '50's! Nothing that distinctive ever shows up around here. Well, maybe at the flea markets, but I gave those up years ago. I'll bet it plays as good as it looks. 


 


Mobile Records in Mobile, AL, sounds like a cool place, I'm sure they have an online store. Hopefully your supply of Mobile Cleaner lasts long enough to clean your Blondie albums and other vinyl treasures!

 

[arh1953]

Mobile Records

Here we are, great article. 



http://www.al.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2012/04/vinyl_resurgence_giving_a_new.html

 

[cb123]

That it is Alan...that it is! It's a veritable vinyl wonderland, eventually everything comes thru Mobile Records. They have a Facebook page...check it out! They also do a pretty good business on eBay. That vinyl spay is really the best thing you can ever use...it'll even clean those new stovetops with a single spay, but gentle enough that it won't even hurt the label on your most prized LP...absolutely wonderful! Keith Glass is the ozzie which runs it, pretty cool dude. He looks out for what your looking for and he does an awful lot of shipping...real good prices, too.  That's strange, Alan, when I was coming up with the title for this particular thread, I was considering rockin' roll and rockabilly...Wow, that's pretty good! Another strange thing is: That I wouldn't even be putting any vinyl spay on this particular 1986 album if Blondie didn't jump out of that limousine that Ted Bundy was driving...thank goodness she was creep out! 

 

[tolivac]

45 RPM "Disco" single-these were popular in those days with Disco DJ's and even radio station DJ's.Have some of those 45 RPM disco singles.Audiophiles were even into them for a little while they claimed they were better audio quality the 33 RPM records.That Mobile reord cleaner sounds good-may have to order some when I do play my records.Like that little "Supertone" Teenager style record player--COOL!!Use Deoxidit all of the time have a can at home and some at work.Good for those "Scratchy Pot" fixit jobs!!

 

[cb123]

Hey arh1953, That was a terrific article and thanks for posting it!!! It really is a great music store.


 


tolivac, that record cleaner is some kind of super good, you won't be disappointed!  Now about the supersized 45:  If you have a glass of wine in you, you can almost tell the difference ....Hmm, maybe it's just a little bit louder, but I really can't tell if one is better than the other. But I can tell the difference when I use a can of DeoxIT, that stuff really makes solder and connections look just like new again. It's something to write home about, about getting that grimy filth out of a player's knobs and twitches, too.     

 

[super-sweeper]

Calem,I wonder who got you that DeSoto partnership? Remind me to mail you my reel-to-reel player!

 


 


What's wrong with the record player? 

 

[cb123]

Alex, between the carbon buildup and grimy gunk, it had almost lost all its conductivity in its knobs and circuits. But thanks to DeoxIT, it now plays like a charm...what can you say, it's some really fine stuff! At first if it doesn't work...DeoxIT! Very often your problem is simply due to a fouled connection.

 

[tolivac]

With the large 45 singles I have their disco music would vibrate the wine out of the cup!!I just have these-the station I worked gave them away to employees.I HATE disco music-they were made from white and red vinyl.I played them once-they do play.But don't think the disco beat would go well with the wine.I just liked the colors of those records.That was another thing in those days-record colors other than black.One LP record has a picture of the very band organ recorded on the record-playes quite well and you see a picture of the band organ going round de round as the disc plays.Funky!I like band organ music!!!The picure was infused into the vinyl.A small picure was on the label-and of course list of the songs played on the organ.I bought the disc of organ music from a company that specialized in band and carrousel organ music.Now that company is no more.Too bad want my organ music fix!!Now listen and see them on YouTube.

 

[cb123]

I to love the sound of the carrousel, the organ, and even the midway! I found this 76' German LP when I got the Blondie one, mentioned earlier in this thread. It has a great sound to it! 

 

[DesertTortoise]

Woooo, that record player looks like something you would find in Haight Ashbury, not deepintheheara Alabamy. I guess you have to play some Lynyrd Skynyrd on it to get the full effect.

DeoxIT is very interesting. I have a 1962-ish vintage Fisher tube tuner with lousy connections and gummy switches that would probably benefit. I don't use it now because the on/off switch is stuck on off, but would love to add it to the stack of otherwise modern audio equipment I have. My dad had it for ages. It was launched off a shelf during the Northridge quake and left dangling by the antenna cable. It's on off switch was always on, and it was powered on and off by a connection to an integrated amp (which I also have). After the quake my dad let me have it. I plugged it into my own audio stack and oh it sounded beautiful. There is still nothing like vacuum tubes for the reproduction of sound. Nine all tube IF sections, FM only, made in New York when Avery Fisher was still alive and innovating. I enjoyed listening to it a while (it was still tuned to KROQ from my high school days, heh, heh, heh, my dad bought this stuff and never used it) then turned it off with the switch on the tuner. I have never been able to get it to turn on since, so it is stored. Maybe DeoxIT is the magic elixer it needs? Thanks for the tip.

 

[super-sweeper]

Calem,I saw an ABBA record today and thought of you, didn't you mention them in another thread? I picked up some 3-in-1 and a Paul Anka 8-Track today, plus a slide projector! Let's hear this 8-Track player sing! 

 

[cb123]

DesertTortoise, That DeoxIT should take care of it for you.  First spray it and let it set for about ten or fifteen minutes. Then spay it inside your switches again, just as heavily as you did the first time: This is meant to wash the dirt and grim out of the switch. Now let it dry for about an hour, Remember to turn your switches back and forth often to add in flushing out the filth...if you don't, your just wasting your time. And No, we don't sing Lynyrd Skynyrd carols around the ole camp fire around cheer, it's the 2nd South Carolina String Band.  It ain't no better way to end a day, especially after a reenactment of fifteen hundred 57 cal. muskets and thirty 18 lb. Napoleonic canon...Now that's a manmade earthquake!  It really is some of the best 1860's music you'll ever hear and here's a link.


 


Yes Alex, I did post some ABBA! Remember to Pop an  8TRACK in for me...Paul Anka will never sound so good!