Happy Birthday, Erin
Okay, this is really late, and I *did* wish my sister a happy birthday way back on October 4th. But I’ve been digging around at my dad’s place for some old treasures, and among some cool old computer game boxes and some old photos, I found a record that Erin got as a present back in 1981, and the sort-of liner thing it came in.
It was an original birthday song with my sister’s name. I assume they recorded 100 different versions of the same song, just substituting one name for another. I feel pretty sorry for the guy who sung that thing over and over again. I guess he’s gotten over it by now. We were pretty surprised they did an “Erin” version; “Jennifer” probably gave them a much bigger payback.
If you zoom in enough on the picture, you’ll discover why there are quarters on the record. I took the picture of the record set up on Erin’s old record player for extra nostalgic effect. In reality, it wasn’t able to play the record at all; the grooves on this super-thin record were far too fine. So I set up my record player with built-in speakers, and managed to break the player almost immediately by dropping it from 45 speed to neutral while the turntable was spinning. So I looked, and found my last record player which I guess I’ve never used before. It was “Made in Germany”.
The record skipped really badly, and did have a pretty nasty scratch running across the first half of the song. But I started experimenting with the player and found I could get it to skip a lot less by adjusting the counter-balance on the arm just right. Then with a bunch of tweaking of the anti-skating adjustment, I finally got a pretty much perfect playthrough. I’m thinking this is actually a really good turntable. In fact, I just checked on eBay and one just went for $89 which seems like quite a bit. It’s a “Dual 1218”.
Okay, enough of the geeky talk. Erin, hope you enjoy listening to this again as much as I did the first couple times!
Listen to: Happy Birthday Erin
November 11th, 2007 at 1:54 am
Yay!!!! I loved that record….I couldn’t really remember how it went but as soon as it started up, I laughed and sang along easily. I must have listened to it a lot! And the quarter holes… it is a really thin record… I remember the wop and cucklechoo and all that… That was a great present. I loved that record player too. Used to put barbies on it and spin them around sometimes. Or play Olivia Newton John or Uncle Phil- did I have any other records?!? Actually when you put that picture of uncle phil on I was so suprised because just that day I was walking around the house singing- “Hey Hey it’s country time, it’s a feeling so sublime…put on some fat chance country songs if you want to be a friend of mine…” Good one. Thanks for the trip down memory lane. I love you digging out all this stuff- use it all, give it to your kids to enjoy… If they aren’t too archaic and boring for them:)
Emma wondered if it was for my 4th birthday because of my colouring skills. Guess I wasn’t such a great colourer… Thanks!!! Love It! Erinnerd
November 20th, 2007 at 3:20 pm
I have four Erin Facebook Friends alone, not counting real friends.
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