Radiograms - any recollections....?

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Radiograms - any recollections....?

Postby Santa C » 15 Oct 2024, 15:58

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It was a Ferguson and probably more like this:

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My school mate John owns a 1954 Ferguson 400 with a Garrard RC75M turntable on which he plays his 30s/40s jazz 78s

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The above from Reap Corner - reminiscing with the Goons

Anybody got any recollections....?




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LMG wrote:If more of the trickier/complex jazzers in the sixties had made records this lush and inviting, the more inventive side of jazz might have caught on.

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Re: Radiograms - any recollections....?

Postby Walk In My Shadow » 15 Oct 2024, 18:55

My parents never had enough room in the house for this.
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Postby Rorschach » 15 Oct 2024, 20:30

My great aunt had one and we went to her house every Sunday after mass. I seem to remember having to listen to Two Way Family Favourites on the radio and, if we were lucky, I'd get to play a record such as My Fair Lady original cast recording or South bloody Pacific.

I do not have fond memories of radiograms.
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Re: Radiograms - any recollections....?

Postby Tom Waits For No One » 16 Oct 2024, 08:25

We had one of these behemoths

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A Decca RG102.

My dad got it from someone he worked with as it was broke, but my dad being a dab hand at all things mechanical/electrical soon had it working.
I sounded incredible but took up about 90% of space in the room :lol:
Imagine listening to Relayer through that!
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Postby robertff » 16 Oct 2024, 08:53

A friend of mine who lived next door had a Dynotron music centre - turntable and built in amp around the late 60s, it looked very impressive and I was very envious at the time. This was before I knew about separates.


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Postby Charlie O. » 16 Oct 2024, 16:46

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We didn't have one like this, but it seemed like most of my friends' parents did when I was little. Somewhat surprisingly for someone who was obsessed with records and record players (and fond of the radio) from a very early age, there was something about these that I instinctively disliked - they seemed clunky, and generally didn't sound as good to my ears as my brother's portable little General Electric record player with speakers built into the lid (especially after he extracted the speakers from the lid and put them in opposite corners of his bedroom).

My family did have one of these things, which we referred to as "the hi-fi":

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The top lifted up and there was a record player and radio there. Monophonic. Oddly, I don't remember the radio getting used much. It was decidedly less than hi-fi, but it was "my" first record player, and even before I could walk I would crawl over and park myself in front of it if one of my older brothers put on something groovy.

Many years later, Mom told me to take it out into the front yard and dismantle it by whatever means necessary so it could more easily be disposed of. It was not unlike a parent asking a son to go find a tree branch for them to beat him with (this never happened to me, but one hears stories) - I think I might have preferred that, in fact. I kept the little brass MOTOROLA HI FI plate you see there in the upper left of the grill cloth.
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Re: Radiograms - any recollections....?

Postby Santa C » 16 Oct 2024, 16:59

Charlie O. wrote:my brother's portable little General Electric record player with speakers built into the lid (especially after he extracted the speakers from the lid and put them in opposite corners of his bedroom).


Some nice posts lads!

Chas, my old schoolmate Pete had one of those.

That was the first time I’d seen and heard ‘proper’ stereo

I was blown away.

One of the first album I recall him playing on it was Ars Longa Vita Brevis by The Nice. 1968

The lucky sod had seen them live in a pub in Manor Park a couple of weeks before




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LMG wrote:If more of the trickier/complex jazzers in the sixties had made records this lush and inviting, the more inventive side of jazz might have caught on.

Kenny G may never have happened.

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Re: Radiograms - any recollections....?

Postby Jimbly » 16 Oct 2024, 23:15

Tom Waits For No One wrote:We had one of these behemoths

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A Decca RG102.

My dad got it from someone he worked with as it was broke, but my dad being a dab hand at all things mechanical/electrical soon had it working.
I sounded incredible but took up about 90% of space in the room :lol:
Imagine listening to Relayer through that!



My Grampa had something similar, no idea how they got it upstairs, around a bend in the stairs. Nobody was allowed to touch it without my Grampa's supervision.
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Re: Radiograms - any recollections....?

Postby Santa C » 17 Oct 2024, 10:10

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My mate's Garrard RC75M turntable

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LMG wrote:If more of the trickier/complex jazzers in the sixties had made records this lush and inviting, the more inventive side of jazz might have caught on.

Kenny G may never have happened.

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Re: Radiograms - any recollections....?

Postby Lord Rother » 17 Oct 2024, 11:02

Charlie O. wrote:It was not unlike a parent asking a son to go find a tree branch for them to beat him with...


We didn't have a radiogram but yes, I remember that! The whippier and nobblier the better for my Dad. Used to leave nice wale marks on the backs of the legs, generally in the knee bend.

Memories eh? :D


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