Who can remember the 45 records? / myLot

United States

February 25, 2017 9:38pm CST

I can remember buying those records for about $1.00. They were made out of wax and you could hear two songs. One on side A and another on side B. Sometimes, they would come inside a protective cardboard with a picture of your favorite recording artist. You would play them on a record player with the middle clip on it. My, have times changed. What is your memory of your 45 record?

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Barbara Radisavlejvic

@bagarad (14283)

• Paso Robles, California

26 Feb 17

I still have some, but I don't play them anymore. My favorite wasn't music. It was a comic monolog called "Hospitality Blues." It was about a man telling how his doctor sent him to the hospital because he needed "old-fashioned rest." Then he explains all the reasons he didn't get it and some of the other experiences like the nurse armed with a huge needle to shoot him with and the other nurse who would wake him up to give him a sleeping pill. It was very funny.

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Barbara Radisavlejvic

@bagarad (14283)

• Paso Robles, California

26 Feb 17

@sugartoes Thank you, thank you. I never thought of looking on YouTube. I had this version.

Hospitality Blues

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I had a 45 rpm of this record in my childhood, but it seems to be nearly impossible to find these days. I searched in itunes, amazon, and limewire, but to no...

Marlina

@marlina (154103)

• Canada

26 Feb 17

Unfortunately I am old enough to remember them.

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flpoolbum

@flpoolbum (2978)

• United States

26 Feb 17

I still have one.

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minx267

@minx267 (15526)

• Hartford, Connecticut

28 Feb 17

I remember. And I still have a box of them in my closet. Many were ones i confiscated from my parents and then I added to the collection myself in the 80's...

cmoneyspinner

@cmoneyspinner (9218)

• Austin, Texas

28 Feb 17

Mr. Rudy's record store. Had a transistor radio to listen to my fave stations and when new songs would come out, I would buy the 45s from his store. The store was on my way home from school, so I would stop by, pick up my records, go home and play the records over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and ... Hey! The radio didn't play the song enough for me!

John Roberts

@JohnRoberts (109841)

• Los Angeles, California

26 Feb 17

I am betraying my age as I grew up buying 45's.

Sandy KS

@rusty2rusty (6771)

• Defiance, Ohio

26 Feb 17

I remember those kind of records. Before Cd's came out. They are many a slow come back.