No, not on this little blog, but on True Blue Sam's YouTube Channel, where we post our old records for all the world to enjoy (OK, twenty or thirty people). Some of our videos attract lots of views, and last week the channel went over One Million hits. When we started posting old records we had lots of negative comments, but ignored and deleted them until the complainers got tired of trying to harass True Blue Sam. It turns out that there are many collectors of old records on YouTube, and we all enjoy the opportunity to hear what is in other peoples' collections. One of the most enjoyable parts of the process of posting old records is winding up a phonograph to make the recordings. Who would have thought fifty years ago when I got my first phonograph that people all around the world would someday be listening to my old record collection? It is an odd mix of old and new technologies.
Here is the first record we posted in 2008 for use on this blog; it's still one of my favorite songs. We use a better microphone now for picking up from the phonograph, and one of these days I hope to re-do this record.
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