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paula (clementine30) posted an update Sunday, May 24, 2015, 12:52pm EDT, 10 years, 4 months ago
I was lucky enough to work for a couple of radio stations that had very large libraries of 33 1/3 discs. I was allowed to borrow and listen to my heart's content. Record companies sent freebies to stations around the country, and a lot of the places out here didn't program that type of music. I have twice lost pretty good sized collections of records I'd accumulated in moves where they disappeared when I went back for them. Alas. But my mom had tons of the good old stuff, some of it on 78s, and a great deal on the 33 1/3 rpm. She loved Broadway show tunes, which I never cared for, but even now I can sing the words to songs I didn't like, but could never get out of my head. I don't, out of respect to anyone standing nearby. (Can't sing, period).