OMG I bought this album, can't remember if I sent away for it, or picked it up at Woolworth's (Woolworth's! God, I miss that store) but oh, did I play it over and over and over.
@Manimal347 By the time Rock 80 came out the records were double albums when required and the pressings were pretty good. I trusted it to a good Realistic-Shure R47XT on my first LAB series table from Radio Shack...
What I like about this ad is the juxtapositioning of primitive stop motion animation, doubled departures of the artists names and the lissajous effect and splittin of selected ones.
Yep. The horrors. They'd cut for run-time, then place 30 minutes on per side. Never mind, fidelity goes downhill after 20 to 25 minutes per side. So, little bass and very high distortion at the ends of sides. Probably didn't matter on the GE Wildcats and BSR atrocities that played these, though.
Absolutely dreadful on a high quality record player though. So, so bad!
They were making albums both in the U.S. and Canada with different song listings on each. This was one of two K-tel abums I first got that were Christmas presents in '73. The other was a three record set called Today's Super Greats. The reason they were able to cram so many songs is that most were edited versions.
OMG I bought this album, can't remember if I sent away for it, or picked it up at Woolworth's (Woolworth's! God, I miss that store) but oh, did I play it over and over and over.
njplr 1 month ago
I still have this album. It's awesome!
totallyhotonj 1 month ago
my first LP, bought it just for Brother Louie
ChrisInKingston69 1 month ago
My aunt used to own "The Fantastic" album by K-Tel.
pacmanindy 2 months ago
@smittykins Ah, thanks for the info.
kyle82364485 2 months ago
@kyle82364485 He was the lead singer of Five Man Electrical Band("Signs").
smittykins 2 months ago
@Manimal347 By the time Rock 80 came out the records were double albums when required and the pressings were pretty good. I trusted it to a good Realistic-Shure R47XT on my first LAB series table from Radio Shack...
What I like about this ad is the juxtapositioning of primitive stop motion animation, doubled departures of the artists names and the lissajous effect and splittin of selected ones.
OUT OF SIGHT!
steadfastcoward 2 months ago
@steadfastcoward
Yep. The horrors. They'd cut for run-time, then place 30 minutes on per side. Never mind, fidelity goes downhill after 20 to 25 minutes per side. So, little bass and very high distortion at the ends of sides. Probably didn't matter on the GE Wildcats and BSR atrocities that played these, though.
Absolutely dreadful on a high quality record player though. So, so bad!
Manimal347 2 months ago
Damn! I still have mine........
tbear662 3 months ago
They were making albums both in the U.S. and Canada with different song listings on each. This was one of two K-tel abums I first got that were Christmas presents in '73. The other was a three record set called Today's Super Greats. The reason they were able to cram so many songs is that most were edited versions.
garyes1958 3 months ago