We used to have a blast playing 45's at 16 or 78 RPMs.
Posted on 09/15/2019 4:23:54 AM PDT by Olog-hai
Joe Biden’s suggestion that parents leave a record player on to teach their babies better vocabulary was a head-scratching (needle-scratching?) moment in Thursday’s debate.
But it was hardly the first time the 76-year-old Biden has busted out a vintage reference that reveals his age and leaves some in the audience in the dark.
Famous for his off-the-cuff storytelling, the former vice president regularly goes deep in the vault to pull out characters and events known primarily to a people of a certain age. Ever heard of Henry Carr? How about a Jerry can? […]
“Play the radio, make sure the television — excuse me, make sure you have the record player on at night, the — the — make sure that kids hear words.” This was part of Biden’s answer to a question about inequality in schools and what Americans can do to repair the legacy of slavery. He spoke about spending more money on the country’s poorest schools, giving teachers a raise and having social workers help parents. […]
“All of a sudden, ‘Along Came Jones,’ as that old song goes. Along came Trump,” Biden told a group of Democrats in Las Vegas in July. […]
“Along Came Jones,” was a 45 — a single — on the long-defunct ATCO label that barely charted after its release in 1959, when Biden was a sophomore in high school. He used it as a segue to the defining moment for voters today, the election of President Donald Trump. …
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That term “Jerry” was always spelled with a J in the old war-story comic books.
The style of the cans translates somewhat to our current red polyethylene five-gallon gasoline cans.
Pretty funny considering vinyl records are now outselling CD’s. Yeah, it’s my hobby. Hipsters are really getting into it and record stores are booming right now. I just “DJ’d” a flower show yesterday and I use both digital and vinyl. People LOVED that I was using vinyl.
Yeah, I know it’s still just a niche thing. But in the context of the news about vinyl sales just last week, I thought his comments were kinda funny. :)
That’s frickin’ hilarious!
I like the teeth. :)
NATO spec Jerry cans are still about the best gas cans you can buy.
I remember around 1958 or so listening to Red Foxx’s “Horse Race” on an LP at a neighbor kid’s house when his parents were gone. It was the funniest thing I’d heard to date.
Hipsters love records. This month record albums outsold CDs for the first time in decades. Joe is cutting edge.
BFnD
I still call a refrigerator an ‘ice box’
I still ‘tape’ TV shows
To think PDJT was vilified and scorned for referring to wire taps, spying etc etc etc
Remember way back when JMcCain stumbled in a campaign speech and they said his slurred words and misstates were the result of his advanced age and just being OLD?
2 days later when BO did the ‘same’ thing it was attributed to him working 24/7 and his ‘mistakes’ were just slip ups because he was so intelligent he was thinking way ahead of himself...
I remember
57 states
‘my’ Muslim faith when the announcer corrected him
Corpseman
just to name a few of many but the LIBs catch a break while the Rs get ‘humiliated’.
I had heard once that a ‘bad’ public speaker will sound out his A’s instead of using the more ‘natural’ a and one can tell if he is reading or going from memory.
Of course they want ‘them’ to stick to the script as liable to not get in ‘trouble’ that way.
I have noticed Juan Soto from the Nationals speaks (almost) flawless English for a 19-20-year-old from The Dominican, BUT he still has an interpreter standing by during his ‘press conferences’....guess management afraid the evil press will try to trip him up and say something embarrassing- which actually isn’t a bad idea since the reporters are wont to ask such idiotic questions as
‘After the other team hit the 6 straight home runs, did you feel a let down’
‘You just hit a batter in the face and broke his nose/eye socket - how did that make you feel with him lying there’?
I realize the questions asked are for the ‘novices’ but I find I can not watch most any ‘sports interview’ because of the mundane questions being asked by ‘clever(??)’ reporters
Yeah but the format is old and dying. 2 years ago I asked a 33 yr old if she had a CD player in the new car she’d been driving for 6 months and she said “I don’t know”. Made me feel old. Turned out she DID have a CD player..
Sounds like you and your bottle share a deep connection this morning.
We used to have a blast playing 45's at 16 or 78 RPMs.
Think one of my grandparent’s had something like that.
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They’re no longer gaffes but ‘ vintage references’!
That last quote,of course,being from 1/20/1961
The one I still think about and ponder is. “Dial the phone.”
I lost my last one about 20 years ago and the land line with the push button models about 2 years ago when the local phone company finally un-bundled it so cable and internet were no longer cheaper if you also took their phone.
So what is or has replaced CDs?
“Along Came Jones” - LOL! Goofy novelty record.
By the Coasters. I was at a venue within the last month or so where the band played “Young Blood”, also by the Coasters. None of them were young enough to remember when it came out.
Streaming music through your iphone has replaced CDs.
I should clarify that you sync up your phone to a speaker device, be it in your car or home.
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