The above article is from the October 19, 1960, Hiliner Herald. Pictured on the phone are LouVay (Ruemler) White and Roger Taylor. Article is by Linda McCrea, Herald Editor. The newspaper from which this article was scanned was supplied to this blog by Jack Paulson. Thanks, Jack! Click on article for larger, more readable version. After larger image appears, you can click again to bring it in closer (not that any of us youngsters in the Class of '61 need to do that, right?)
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Barb Sheppard L, I remember the time your father introduced Hi-Fi in the record dept of his store. I stopped in to buy some records and he said he wanted to show me the new stereo sound that was becoming the new rage. He had set up a record player with the speakers on the wall. He played a demo record and you could hear the movement between the speakers. I had to have that record player. I went home, told my parents about it and asked them to loan me the money to buy it. I think I still owe them the money. Larry do you remember the "new" sound. I also think we were all twirped.
Yo, Dennis and gang: I definitely remember that demo record. I'm trying to remember if it was simply "HI-FI" or Stereo? I believe it was high fidelity only, because stereo followed a few years later--if memory serves (and it oft times doesn't). Up to that point, all we had was 78s and then the 45's (which were of far better fidelity and more durable) and then the 33 1/3 RPM long-play "albums." High Fidelity seemed to come in as a promotional thing with those 33's. I believe that test record used a thunderstorm to demonstrate the clarity and realness of the sound.
Regarding TWIRP season, I don't recall anyone asking Lonesome Larry for a date. Sad, I know. I had to create my own little world, as the Beach Boys would later sing about with their hit song "In My Room." But my "little room," whenever I wasn't in school, was the control room at KOVC. And to me that was a wonderland of fun and learning. Be a blast for me to go back and run a shift with all my old favorite artists and songs. Hey, you got me started, Dennis. I better stop babbling.
Larry, It was stereophonic sound. I just found a old 33 lp that I bought back then, Kingston Trio, and in big letters on the jacket, it proclaimed, stereophonic sound. No needle in the turntable so I must go shopping.
Larry Gauper said...
I hear ya, Dennis..I think I know that LP by the Kingstons (weren't they terrific!) and it indeed was released in stereo...but I also remember (and still have somewhere) some very old LPs of the very first releases in that format, that simply say "High Fidelity" and there's absolutely no stereo to the audio on those particular LPs. What was demonstrated at Sheppard's store probably was stereo. In fact, we had a "quadraphonic" gimmick going for awhile and I think that was post the 2-channel releases. Like the first 3D's, quad died quickly but then came back with the multi-channel "surround sound" that's popular today with home theatres. And, of course, with Avatar starting a resurgence of 3-D, we have that back too. The new gimmick that's just getting going now is 3-D TV, primarily from Sony. But, with all those exciting techniques and audio/video technologies, to have something worth looking at or listening to, one still has to have a GOOD story and/or GREAT musicians and some GOOD songs (like they used to write!).
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