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Recollections - Entertainment
Popular Music
King's Theatre,
Edinburgh |
Thank you to Frank Ferri, Newhaven, Edinburgh, who wrote: |
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1950s
"In the
1950s, the old 78 rpm vinyl records
were expensive. Few of us could afford
them and even fewer of us owned a record player.
Your
choice of hearing a popular music was either listening to Housewives
Choice, every morning at
10.00 am, or the Sunday morning Family
Favourites and Radio Luxemburg.
Even then you maybe had to listen
to a load of rubbish before something of a teenager’s choice was played." |
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Bandparts
"So to satiate our need to hear
up to date music, we would go up to 'Bandparts'
record / sheet music shop in Union Place, just
beyond Gayfield Square.
They had little private booths
equipped with head phones. You would ask for a particular record to be
played and hear it in the booth, free,
gratis. The poor shop assistant, at times, must
have played more records than they sold."
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Frank Ferri, Newhaven, Edinburgh:
October 22, 2008 |
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