The earlier talk about tapes & albums made me dig out of a closet my mom’s old RCA Victor Model 9-Y-510, 45RPM record player with AM tuner. The thing is probably near 60 years old or more (couldn’t find a date on it), hasn’t been used in over 30 years (I was the last to use it when I was a teen), and I’m not about to plug it in to see if it works at all. When I was a kid this old unit with it’s orange glowing tubes would pick up on the skip at night stations from over a thousand miles away; in the very room where I now sit, in 1977 I first heard Led Zepplin’s “Kashmir”, coming to me from some far away place very faintly through the AM hiss and crackle, a surreal experience.

The old school “compact discs” that some of you might recognize around it are clockwise from upper right:

“The Ballad of Davy Crockett” by Loren Becker with Vincent Lopez and his orchestra on the “18 Top Hits” label

“Time, Time” by Ed Ames (who later costarred with former Davy Crockett, Fess Parker in the “Daniel Boone” TV series) on the RCA Victor label

“It’s Only Make Believe” by Conway Twitty on the M-G-M label

“Dragnet” by Lew Raymond and his orchestra on the Campus label in red vinyl

“Dragnet” by Enoch Light & his orchestra on the Waldorf label in red vinyl (mom must’ve liked Dragnet)

“Peppermint Twist” by Joey Dee and the Starliters on the Roulette label (must be my sister’s)

“Moments to Remember” by The Four Lads on the Columbia label

“The Ballad of the Green Berets” by SSGT Barry Sadler, U.S. Army Special Forces on the RCA Victor label (also must be my sister’s)

There are a bunch of other “discs” by people I’ve never heard of on labels I’ve never heard of though some of the titles are familiar. I think that somewhere around here are more of my sister’s old 45's from the sixties with an assortment of famous songs and artists among them.