thanks for posting this. I've got a portable GE thats a bit older and more bulky but i couldn't for the life of me figure out how the auto loader worked! thanks.
These mono portables with an automatic changer were called "Swingmates." Next up the line was stereo with fixed speakers on the sides and they were "Wildcat" models. After them, was "Mustang" with removeable speakers, and beyond those were the Trimlines with less plastic and beefier speakers and amps. Below "Swingmate" was "Playmate" with the indentical cabinet but single-play turntable, mostly aimed at kids.
I had an orange-colored record player like this one. It had four speeds and it's an automatic changer with 45-rpm adaptor. It had knobs instead of flip switches. It was a Zenith by the way, but it's very similar to this.
i love it i had the exact same unit i got it as a christmas gift i believe like1971 or '72 it lasted for quite a while great sound on it for one speaker
"Vinylrecordsneverdie" has the exact same GE record player, except the record changer is different, but it had a red base and the same record changer than my 1975 Wildcat, but this was a later model from 1974. The cabinet design can also be found on a 1977 Truetone, the 1978 Emerson Swingmate and the 1978 Tiger Mickey Mouse record players.
Wow ... my new phonograph in 1971. One could load up to 6 records to drop. That rectangle shape in the back corner of the lid is where an adapter for 45 rpm was kept, it allowed them to be stack-loaded as well. I recall the sticker in front left warning of the hazard of electric shock if the chassis were opened.
The stylus would "flip" over as it had a 75 rpm needle as well. It put out some volume, too. My last mono turntable and last "portable" one as well. Thanks for the memory!
Nothing compares to that sound that only people who lived in the 50s and 60s can appreciate. New technology can never take us back to those times like these old babies can. Sweet!
When I was 8 I got a GE record player just like this one for Christmas 70/71. I loved it,played all my 45's on it..Gypsie's Tramps & Thieves..Venus by Shocking Blue..Love Grows Where my Rosemary Goes..Thanx for the memory!
Just bought a late 60's GE Super Star the red white and blue case off Craigslist for 15 bucks =] Still plays awesome =]
scubasteve7196 1 month ago
I had/still have that record player! It has a mind of it's own... it starts into the song and ends it when it wants to!
CameraCapers 7 months ago
owning a record player was like your personal friend
TheCarambasam 11 months ago
Is this the V638h by any chance?
texs2007 1 year ago
thanks for posting this. I've got a portable GE thats a bit older and more bulky but i couldn't for the life of me figure out how the auto loader worked! thanks.
thecamraman 1 year ago
These mono portables with an automatic changer were called "Swingmates." Next up the line was stereo with fixed speakers on the sides and they were "Wildcat" models. After them, was "Mustang" with removeable speakers, and beyond those were the Trimlines with less plastic and beefier speakers and amps. Below "Swingmate" was "Playmate" with the indentical cabinet but single-play turntable, mostly aimed at kids.
dvlaries 1 year ago
@dvlaries Beside the 1974 GE I have, I also have 3 of the non-GE record players w/ the same exact case made 1977/78.
Vinylrecordsneverdie 6 months ago
i have the crosley record player i just wanted to know how to put my records on
FuckBieber 1 year ago
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what is this model called??? ihave one just like it
cheeezballs00 1 year ago
what is this model called??? ihave one just like it
cheeezballs00 1 year ago
what is this model called??? ihave one just like it
cheeezballs00 1 year ago
Does anyone know the replacement stylus number for these?
Jukeboxfun 1 year ago
how much and were??
TXTTOMMY 1 year ago
I had an orange-colored record player like this one. It had four speeds and it's an automatic changer with 45-rpm adaptor. It had knobs instead of flip switches. It was a Zenith by the way, but it's very similar to this.
Rlotpir1972 1 year ago
i love it i had the exact same unit i got it as a christmas gift i believe like1971 or '72 it lasted for quite a while great sound on it for one speaker
jsemancik1 2 years ago
my sister's model had detachable speakers and was blue..GE from around 1972..similar tone arm and such..a real blast from the past..
DjJohnnyM68 2 years ago
I have one like that! But mine has a black tone arm and the inside of my record player is red!
bunnyjoke 2 years ago
I have that model.
Vinylrecordsneverdie 2 years ago
What song is that? It gives great classical times in my mind.
scorpingirl 2 years ago
The song is 'I FALL TO PIECES', famously
recorded by Patsy Cline but I don't think this
is her version of that song. It sounds like a
low-budget knock-off version but I could be
wrong (I've been mistaken before and...)
three185 2 years ago
Thank you! :D
scorpingirl 2 years ago
@three185: It IS a low-budget knock-off soundalike cover version that's played in the video.
SeanElGatoTelevision 1 year ago
I'm curious to know if those have any issues w/ feedback (considering the location of the speaker in respect to the tonearm when playing)?
Madness832 2 years ago
"Vinylrecordsneverdie" has the exact same GE record player, except the record changer is different, but it had a red base and the same record changer than my 1975 Wildcat, but this was a later model from 1974. The cabinet design can also be found on a 1977 Truetone, the 1978 Emerson Swingmate and the 1978 Tiger Mickey Mouse record players.
BrooklynMouseReturns 2 years ago
This is one of GE's better changer than the 1972/75 models.
Vinylrecordsneverdie 2 years ago
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jasonlava 2 years ago
Wow ... my new phonograph in 1971. One could load up to 6 records to drop. That rectangle shape in the back corner of the lid is where an adapter for 45 rpm was kept, it allowed them to be stack-loaded as well. I recall the sticker in front left warning of the hazard of electric shock if the chassis were opened.
The stylus would "flip" over as it had a 75 rpm needle as well. It put out some volume, too. My last mono turntable and last "portable" one as well. Thanks for the memory!
storminole 2 years ago
Nothing compares to that sound that only people who lived in the 50s and 60s can appreciate. New technology can never take us back to those times like these old babies can. Sweet!
FrancisRidley 3 years ago
@FrancisRidley: Likewise, no "nostalgia" record player can ever top the performance of these old units.
SeanElGatoTelevision 1 year ago
When I was 8 I got a GE record player just like this one for Christmas 70/71. I loved it,played all my 45's on it..Gypsie's Tramps & Thieves..Venus by Shocking Blue..Love Grows Where my Rosemary Goes..Thanx for the memory!
slay63 3 years ago
You lived it! Very awesome!
jasonlava 2 years ago