02-26-2011, 06:04 PM
Back to that thing about "Ballet Music From Aida".
In 1954, I was in the Army, working in one of the Signal Corps Engineering Labs, at Ft. Monmouth, NJ. There were several out buildings in the complex, with various projects in progress in them. One morning, we were in our lab, in the main building, and heard some music, wafting with the air movement outside. Naturally, we walked out to see what's goin' on. There, atop one of the small buildings (this was out in the country), was a bank of high power speakers, being driven by a 250 watt amplifier, in one of the small out buildings. The guy was feeding it with a Magnecord PT6 recorder, where he had put this Ballet Music recording on a tape. The amp was a "Beachmaster" amplifier, which is part of psywar, for use at beach landings.
He told me what the record was, and that evening, after dinner, I made a bee line for Asbury Park, to my pet record store, and bought the record. It's a Columbia LP (Monaural, of course), and the flip side is: "Ballet Music from Faust"
Back in the days of Ron's Maggie, one of the upper level music stores that sold Magnavox, in my neighborhood, was also a major record dealer in Michigan (Grinnell Brothers). I was in their local store, buying a record, I suppose, and was drooling a river over a set like Ron's. Understand, I was around 18 or 19 years old, and I chatted with a salesman. He said: "here, this is what this thing can do", and put on a 78 disc from the Columbia Gaite Parisienne album. I thought he was going to take out the plate glass windows in the store with that Maggie. those impressions never get dim.
Anyone wonder why I like high ticket radios?
In 1954, I was in the Army, working in one of the Signal Corps Engineering Labs, at Ft. Monmouth, NJ. There were several out buildings in the complex, with various projects in progress in them. One morning, we were in our lab, in the main building, and heard some music, wafting with the air movement outside. Naturally, we walked out to see what's goin' on. There, atop one of the small buildings (this was out in the country), was a bank of high power speakers, being driven by a 250 watt amplifier, in one of the small out buildings. The guy was feeding it with a Magnecord PT6 recorder, where he had put this Ballet Music recording on a tape. The amp was a "Beachmaster" amplifier, which is part of psywar, for use at beach landings.
He told me what the record was, and that evening, after dinner, I made a bee line for Asbury Park, to my pet record store, and bought the record. It's a Columbia LP (Monaural, of course), and the flip side is: "Ballet Music from Faust"
Back in the days of Ron's Maggie, one of the upper level music stores that sold Magnavox, in my neighborhood, was also a major record dealer in Michigan (Grinnell Brothers). I was in their local store, buying a record, I suppose, and was drooling a river over a set like Ron's. Understand, I was around 18 or 19 years old, and I chatted with a salesman. He said: "here, this is what this thing can do", and put on a 78 disc from the Columbia Gaite Parisienne album. I thought he was going to take out the plate glass windows in the store with that Maggie. those impressions never get dim.
Anyone wonder why I like high ticket radios?
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