Published in December 2008 on the Scene 360 website, this blog looked at the relative advantages, and disadvantages, of CD and vinyl record albums:
The first record I ever listened-to was on my Auntie’s wind-up gramophone. The type where the needles were kept in a tin and had to be replaced after just a few playings, or they would become sharp and start cutting through the soft wax material of the records themselves.
The record was “Tubby the Tuba” by Danny Kaye, listened to every Tuesday when I went to my Aunt’s after school for tea every. We also play ed“Sparky’s Magic Piano”, but not for long because that became a casualty of the frailness of 78′s, when it was accidentally dropped and shattered into a dozen pieces on the kitchen floor, much to everyone’s disappointment. Read the full blog