What you don't know is that Fran is one hundred and seventeen years old! She talks about all this stuff (music history, electronics, rockets, and more) like she experienced it all first hand. She is clearly brilliant! She talks about minute details from 50 years ago like she just experienced it yesterday. Amazing.

@chazlabreck

Жыл бұрын

old souls never die they just jump to a new host.

I love Fran, she is so smart and natural on camera. Funny and charming. I was a professional recording engineer in a past life and Fran you took me down memory lane. You enrich our lives by keeping the amazing accomplishments of the past alive. You are my hero like Mr. Wizard was.

@bobbyberetta4206

6 жыл бұрын

Oh Wow Mr. Wizard! Great reference, wasn't that a Great show?

@RockitNowAlready

6 жыл бұрын

It sure was. I never missed an episode

@washingtonvintagesaws3480

5 жыл бұрын

Watched it every day I could

@leepresley2055

Жыл бұрын

Yes I wish Captain Kangeroo still came on... -{Chris

Ive just been watching LIFE AFTER FRAN LAB. When you said you are not young or pretty, well i think you are a very nice lady and i love watching Fran lab. Keep smiling and keep safe.

Who remembers the 45 inserts that would let you play a 45 RPM record on a regular record player? Better still who remembers the "spindle" adapter that would slip over the 33 1/3 spindle and allow you to stack up 45's?

@dan_kelly

6 жыл бұрын

Ya, I had a record player back in the mid 70's that used all those inserts and adapter for 45 's. I can't seem to remember who made it.

@rockabillycat1954

6 жыл бұрын

Most record changers from the 50's, 60's, and 70's came with 45 spindle adapters.

@kirkmoore4515

6 жыл бұрын

David Tyndall. I haven't used a insert since the 60s. I can drop a 45 on a spinning turntable and center it perfectly in 3, 4 seconds. Practice makes perfect!

@xaenon

5 жыл бұрын

Yes, but I'm pretty sure David Tyndall was discussing the plastic adapters that you snapped into the records themselves, effectively giving your 45 record the small 'LP' style hole. They were mostly for use with record changers, which are effectively extinct now, but they work also with regular single-play turntables. I remember buying a pack of like 15 of them at Kmart for like a dollar. Of course, that WAS like 30 years ago.

@thefreedomguyuk

4 жыл бұрын

The pucks came with most record players Europe. Not that you'd need one, any kid could drop a 45 on the rubber mat, dead centered, no puck !

I was born in 1951 and by the time I was in grade school, I was listening to my older sister playing 45’s on her little record player - very similar to the one you have here. I also remember feeding quarters into juke boxes that played 45’s. Half the fun was watching that machine select the record and move it to the turntable. I’m so glad that because of recording technology, music has been a huge part of my life, from a very early age right up through the present. Thanks for posting this and bringing back some wonderful memories.

Fran, my friends and I have noticed that you are very natural in your delivery, never rushed, and even with some fairly technical things you never get above our comprehension, which really makes science enjoyable. Keep doing what you do, you are a positive force here!

Fran. I could listen to you talk for days. The amount of knowledge jammed into that head of yours is exquisite.

At a garage sale I held I had a portable phonograph out on a table playing a stack of 45's. A kid stood watching it in wonderment. After a few minutes he asked what it was. I said it's a device and that's my playlist. Oh...........wow. Priceless moment.

We love you, Fran

@Musicsification

6 жыл бұрын

Yeah,she's great.Really knows her stuff!

@VAX1970

6 жыл бұрын

she?

@FenderUsa

6 жыл бұрын

edgy, guys

I guess.... orange was the new black...

@233kosta

6 жыл бұрын

I'll take it!

@BrightBlueJim

6 жыл бұрын

+1

@Agnethatheredhairkid

6 жыл бұрын

@ SilentS: Like it!

@afrog2666

6 жыл бұрын

baDumm tsss

@miltondixon5595

6 жыл бұрын

good one.

An *OUTSTANDING* presentation. Thank you!

My Mom grew up living next door to a jukebox record dealer that would sell all the used records to neighborhood kids for a $0.25 each. I spent many nights in the 80's listening to her collection. Sadly, I sold my little General Electric portable player when we moved to a new city and my parent's sold off most of their collection to a local music store. When they went through their records, they found many of the 78's had fractured. She kept her 45's in an "AMfile Platter Pack". Wonderful memories.

Thank you Fran that was riveting , I learned such a lot , you are a great teacher,yes please , more on the other formats of record💐

That was definitely the most interesting 20 minutes I have spent on KZread this year! Thanks Fran!

"Oh we got both kinds, we got country AND western!"

I remember these 45 RPM records when I was a kid. To play them on a conventional phonograph (equipped with a 45 RPM speed setting), you could get an adaptor which clipped into the big hole to allow them to be played on the thinner spindle. Later phonographs came with their own adaptor which could be used as needed.

Fantastic. My First 45 was Blondie's "Heart of Glass," and my Second was Santa Esmeralda's "Don't let me be Misunderstood." Gerry Rafferty's "Right Down the Line" was the third. Good memories you have brought me. I played those alot!

Fun fact: The first 33⅓ RPM 12-inch records on the consumer market were actually introduced by RCA Victor in 1931. They were called "Program Transcription" records and could hold up to 15 minutes of music per side. But these records sounded bad, wore out quickly, and required expensive new machines to play them, which people couldn't afford during the Great Depression, so the format was a commercial failure and was discontinued in 1936.

@wildbilltexas

6 жыл бұрын

RCA head David Sarnoff was furious when Columbia Records demonstrated their 33⅓ LP's to him. His big ego wanted a competing format fast. So much of RCA's development for 12 inch microgroove records from the 1930's was re-used to create the 45. By the late 40's vinyl quality was much better and the smaller size made them affordable.

@danvanlandingham3854

6 жыл бұрын

I've got about a dozen of them.They were pressed in a type of plastic called "Vitrolac".

@wildbilltexas

6 жыл бұрын

Had the great depression and WW II never happened, the 78 might have been replaced earlier. Then again I think what made the 45 a success was it was the right format at the right time when Modern R&B and Rock & Roll exploded.

@BrazilianGaucho

6 жыл бұрын

+Dan VanLandingham - That explains why the word in Portuguese for a big wooden counter with an integrated record player used to be "Vitrola".

@BionicJohn

6 жыл бұрын

Hey VWestlife!

Yay I have another favorite vintage music channel to enjoy! Fran seems very warm and friendly and, most importantly, informative. Keep up the great work!

Thank you, Fran. You're always so knowledgeable, and I enjoyed learning about this. Another beneficial factor of 45s and teenagers is economics. When I began buying records, it was 1968, I was twelve, and a 45s cost less than a dollar. I remember .78 cents being common. And some 45s would be marked down based on their salability. Your video here came up as a suggestion because earlier I'd watched a film made by RCA in late 1948, early 1949, introducing the new 45 RPM record format, as well as the player that you have on the desk. The film included two other 45 RPM players available to accommodate different uses. One of these was a non-amplified version that plugged into a home system that was common at the time, consisting of an AM-FM Radio and a non-45 RPM record player, installed into various styles of cabinets. Per your mention of the new 45 RPM format being released on March 31, 1949. Perhaps RCA felt that the 31st was much better than April 1st, since that's April Fool's Day.

~ Love history! Love music history and records even more! Very interesting, 45s ARE STILL BEING MADE and they remain fascinating, and thank you, you rock! Cheers, DAVEDJ ~

Fran actually does a good presentation and lecture. It's a friendly and informative little documentary. Better than some professionals. Nothing stuffy in her presentation -- she is prepared and she segues between subjects keeping the conversation interesting. You can tell she has a passion for her subject. If I met her in high school or college this young lady would have been one of my favorite "girlfriends." She knows her stuff. She actually looks too young to really have lived when these records were popular. Nevertheless, she is sharp on the subject of 45 nostalgia. Next time she should mention or included that some 45-sized records were EPs (RCA I believe) -- 4 songs at 33 rpm with a small hole but the size of a 45 record. Several Elvis Presley EP's were released this way. I have some with country singer Jim Reeves and some European records. Great cardboard color sleeves. There must be a reason for this marketing move. Maybe they were trying to introduce a possible stereo 45 eventually. I like that when she talks she can actually show a good example of the machines and how they operated. This video was produced well enough to show students in a school if a music teacher wanted to include the history of records. Her explanation of how the records are cut and why is very good. There isn't anything she said that is inaccurate. High fidelity! Wow...nice explanation. RCA also introduced Dyna-vinyl which was flimsy and I think it was manufactured at their Camden, NJ pressing plant. It was supposed to prevent warpage when in the sleeve. Later, LP's were put into plastic sleeves instead of paper. I enjoyed Fran for the whole 21 minutes. I'd listen to any explanation she tapes -- she has a good clear speaking voice.

@ronfowlermusic

4 жыл бұрын

most of the 45 EP's i have seen have the standard large hole in the center. The only ones that didn't were called jukebox ep's, and played at 33.

@lastrada52

4 жыл бұрын

@@ronfowlermusic - You're right.

@anonUK

3 жыл бұрын

I think her "era" could well have been the mid 70s, when there was the first major rock'n'roll revival, (particularly of Buddy Holly and others killed in the 1959 plane crash), to the mid 80s. My era was the mid-90s, when in the UK, the basic choice was Oasis (usually thought of as Beatles revivalists), Blur (Kinks revivalists) and the Prodigy (dance music for metalheads). Or rap, of course, but that wasn't for me. Which is why I have written so much below KZread music videos from 1965-1984...

@WLHS

3 жыл бұрын

@@ronfowlermusic I’m in Australia and have a few hundred 45s in my collection, none have the funny big hole though some have been made to have center pressed out for the big hole. Our record players come with a attachment in case of big holes records.

@ronfowlermusic

3 жыл бұрын

@@WLHS ours do too, a 45 adaptor.

I think you will all agree - We love Fran!

Thank you for this most interesting video. I started my technical career in the Radio Bantu Studio in 1969. ( Then apartheid South Africa) We had two disc cutting lathes in "Main Control" which were used for cutting the adverts played on air. The 33RPM discs we used were laquer coated aluminium. (We used to peel off the coating of old discs and used the aluminium for project chassies. (I recently used the last disc from my junk pile to make cylinder head gasket for my 1955 Ariel motorcycle!) (I am 72 years old now) I love your videos - thanks so much!

Great video! Thanks so much for all the info.

@joeserrenti9857

3 жыл бұрын

Wow ..... did that bring back memories ...!!! I still have my old 45's ... and some 78's ... 1 or 2 16's from the radio studios ... they were huge ! But I'd like you to continue with the master stylus cutting width development... In the 80's a company called Telarc made digital non compressed wide dynamic range records....!? I'm sure you remember these. I have 2. One which has the 1812 Overture on it. The digital dynamic range was so wide that they used auto groove width calibration assisted by a manual adjustment. The grooves become so wide when the Canon shots go off that they are easily visible with the naked eye .... looking like a big sideways Z ... ! The tonearm would pop up into the air if you tracked at anything under 2 grams ...Lol...!! They were VERY expensive and never went anywhere because the CD was only 2 or 3 years away ... I think folks would enjoy your discussion from mono to stereo . How the grooves evolved to reproduce the new formats.... The studio "cheat" stereo like Capital Records Duophonic sound that tried to turn originally recorded mono Hi Fi recordings into stereo without re-recording the record.... It's a unique and interesting topic and part of a long history of innovation in home entertainment and the quest for the BEST Sound ! And at the end you can let everyone know that we've moved totally away from that with the dominating .mp3 format ..... And Why ...!?!?? Great videos Fran, you are Sooooo Smart ...!!! 👍👍👍

@gustavosantana716

2 жыл бұрын

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@jazieltripp1040

2 жыл бұрын

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@gustavosantana716

2 жыл бұрын

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@gustavosantana716

2 жыл бұрын

@Jaziel Tripp It worked and I actually got access to my account again. I am so happy! Thank you so much, you saved my account !

Love it. I've been collecting vinyl since '75 and knew a little bit on how it was/is made, but I learned SO much more from this video. Please keep it up!

This is extremely interesting!!!! Thank you very much, Fran!!!!

Even though I know most of this, I must say its superbly presented in a non patronising way, I bought many records in the late 50s and early 60s

Really enjoyable Fran. the in depth stuff on the cutting engineer was excellent & unknown to me before.. keep em coming.

Fran-tastic video! I learned a lot I never knew about vinyl records.

I restored my Seeburg Model 100B jukebox and used it in our Wholly Cow frozen custard store in Lawrenceville, GA. We closed our business in 2002 but that jukebox was the favorite of every kid that came in. "Splish Splash by Bobby Darin was the most played song. The juke was filled with mostly 60's 45's and all the coins deposited were pure profit as well as delighting our customers. I love your videos. - John

You are a treasure here on KZread...the way you explain and share your knowledge is just amazing. First... Bravo for collecting these priceless moments in time. I'm 64 and I remember playing my 45 copy of Roy Orbison's "Oh Pretty Woman" on my parents Magnavox Combo TV/ Hi Fi Mono Record Player Console when I was 8 years old. I then had so many other 45's before I saw The Beatles on Ed Sullivan . 1964 ...from Roy to The British Invasion !!! Juke Boxes where everywhere and my parents loose change was all I needed !!!

Just randomly stumbled upon this, very informative! Thank you, Great Video!

Hi Fran, I am very pleased to have bumped into you.

Who else has a Geiger counter on a shelf along with their record collection? Love you Fran!

Finally! All my questions about the format are answered. So glad you made this vid. So glad I found it.

Thanks Fran - that was very interesting and informative. Thanks for being smart and sharing your interests!

I like how the tech that I grew up with is now antique and in need of detailed explanation. I asked a young man on craigslist if the turntable he was selling had a needle on it. He said he didn't know and he asked me where to look for it.

Fran, thank for taking the time to do this video! Having been born in 1955, 78's 45's & 33's are a major part of my life! .This video is right up my alley! Thanks again! I also purchased that same RCA 45 RPM player at a Los Angeles flea market for $5.00 some 38 years ago.I still have it.

That was the same 45 rpm player my Mom bought for college (back in 1949)...and then, in the 60's, my brother and I enjoyed it. The Beatles 45's sure sounded magical on that little machine. Thanks for sharing.

A big factor in the decline of dedicated 45 RPM players in the late '50s was the advent of transistor radios and Top 40 radio stations. Now kids could hear their kind of music anywhere, anytime, from a small battery-powered radio. It was as revolutionary as the Walkman was in the '80s.

You're one of the most interesting people I've found in quite a while. I love your content!

Simpler times. I own many different formats of vinyl, cassettes and cds. I enjoy them all. Thank you for being so informative.

Thanks for the trip down memory lane and the info that went along with it. You're the best.

I enjoyed this a lot, thanks Fran.

Thank you, Fran. Very interesting.

I grew up with 45s, so this video brought back a lot of memories. Thanks Fran.

Thankyou for caring about LP s and what they are all about your precious also .

Dear Fran, thank you for this very interesting talk. My wife and I are 68 and 63 years old, and remember the 45 era very well. I was interested in Rock and Roll for about a month when I was 8, and listened to my cousin's 45s with my favorite aunt, many times. I had a Webcor portable record player, like many kids had back then. A few years later, pop music started coming out on 33's. As you know, these were called albums, the word being derived from the actual albums that 78s came in, which, I assume got THEIR name from photo albums. My family was into classical, so many of our recordings came in albums, since a symphony might need 6 or 8 sides. Anyway, what I think is interesting is, that after the 45 began to fall out of use, the R&R songs continued to be only 2-3 minutes long, on the new LPs. (When I was 9 I abandoned R&R for classical, and later jazz, and by that time those musics were mostly on LPs) Anyway, keep up the good work, and thanks.

Thanks Fran. Very interesting.

You are a delightful person Fran and I love watching and listening to your videos.

Thank you very much for these historical explanations and technical ones you explained so nicely in your video. It was nice to watch and hear you.

Awesome! I was a DJ for American Forces Radio when vinyl was still king and thought I knew everything about vinyl records and pressings. Great coverage Fran! Makes me want to go don to the basement and dig out my old 45s (most are the promotional cuts from Billboard and Radio and Record Mag) and play them for old time sake. I also have an untrimmed gold master record used to press one side of a 33 RPM disk.

On the subject of equalization, StuderSSL had the story right. Instead of active compansion, it was a simple boost/cut method to ensure that the bass would fit into the groove, and the high frequency noise would be made less objectionable. The trouble was in the early days, the record labels couldn't come to a consensus as to how much boost and cut they would use, and where they would place the corners of the curves. Thus early Hi-Fi preamps like the Marantz Model 1 and Heathkit WA-P2 sported labels such as, Columbia, London FFRR, AES, NARTB, Old 78, RIAA, (RCA New) Ortho(phonic), and others. In 1954 the Record Industry Association of America decided that they​ would adopt the RCA New Orthophonic (literally "straight sound") curve as the standard. Despite the selection of a standard, many preamps and amps still carried the selection switches for a few years longer. One example of this was the McIntosh C-20 "Record Compensator" which was released in the early days of the stereo era. In the consumer world, actual companders didn't really exist on a wide scale until the seventies, with noise reduction systems like Burwen. In the dawn of the Hi-Fi era, noise reduction as such usually amounted to a simple​ high cut "scratch" filter. The notable exception was Hermon Scott's Dynaural noise reduction system. This split the audio into two bands, each of these would be treated by a variable filter, depending upon the program material. The consumer version of this system had only the HF filter, LF would be passed through untouched. HHScott made several pieces with Dynaural, the last was a stereo preamp with the filter gate action visible on EM84 magic eye tubes. Unfortunately Scott didn't license Dynaural to any other manufacturers.

@RockitNowAlready

6 жыл бұрын

In addition to EQ not being standardized in the early days of 78RPM, the speed varied from 65 to 90RPM depending on the manufacturer. I have a Grommes PG61 who's manual has 2 pages of turnover and rolloff frequencies for various manufacturers

@kenheitmueller69

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, It's important to point out that the RIAA pre-emphasis/de-emphasis system is a simple cut/boost equalization technique and is not a dynamic process. The use of the term "compress" implies that the equalization varied relative to program content when it did not. RCA got into that in 1963 with their Dynagroove process much to the chagrin of audio purists at the time.

Hi Fran, LOVED your piece on 45 records! I am now 75, but when I was a teenager, I had a stack of 45's AS TALL AS ME! Then when I left home, my younger brother (and his friends) invented the Frisbee...WITH MY RECORDS! Keep up the good work, and best regards, Peter Simmons Hendersonville, TN

I was around 10 years old and I received as a birthday gift one of the first portable record player. It used six D batteries and I depended totally on the generosity of my family for replacements. But it was the envy of schoolmates! At a later age I was able to feed it with a filament transformer, single diode rectifier and a 500 uF filter cap. The circuit was horrible, with a piezo pickup of 1 Mohm impedance feeding a 10 Kohm impedance pre-amplifier. A 100 Kohm resistor in series with the pickup partially solved the distortion problem. I guess the makers of that whizz-bang player didn't even know what the RIAA curve was. Luckily, the motor had a centrifugal speed regulator! Thank you for the nice ride down the memory lane. Regards from the UK...

Every single thing that I ever wanted to know that I actually wanted to know about the 45rpm record. Thank you Fran! Can't wait for the 33 and a third rpm record history lesson. Now I know why my Beach Boys 20 Golden Greats lp that I was given in 1976 sounded so terrible due to the poor dynamic range. Excellent stuff!!!

That was pretty good. I remember being able to hear adjoining grooves sometimes i.e. the grooves were so close together you'd actually be able to hear bleed through from the next groove. I hope I described that all right.

@Robert08010

2 жыл бұрын

That's also true of television programs that were stored on magnetic tape. Because of the volatility of a show like All in the Family frequently going from quiet to loud, if you listen closely, you can often hear Archie shout 2 times ahead of the actual shout. They called that "Print through" I believe. What you're talking about I believe would be classified as "Crosstalk".

Great presentation! I grew up with music from my Dad and Mom.They had stuff from when ever going intro the thirties, forties and fifties.Wow,78's 10" and 12" singles, 10" and 12" lps. You are so good.

Brilliant video, looking forward to watching the next one.

This is fascinating! I don't know anything about anything on this topic but I find it super interesting. Great video :-)

Nice job. Might as well discuss the LP 's and 78s now. 😉

Excellent job! Thanks, Fran!

When I was ten, I got a portable record player for my birthday, but I had no records to play on it, so on that same birthday, my mom took me to the store to pick out one record (one only) to get my record collection started. The #1 single on the charts that had just been released was The Beatles 45-rpm of Help! on the A-side and I'm Down on the B-side. My mom bought it for me and I was in heaven playing those two songs over and over and over. Maybe because of that day, Help! is still my favorite Beatles song and I still feel excited when I hear Paul singing I'm Down.

Awesome video!... As the saying goes: "...video it and they shall watch!" :P well, maybe that's not how the saying goes, but you have my vote on more videos like this type of content. Again, it was awesome, thank you!

Hi Fran, I worked in the Audio and Hi Fi trade for most of my life. I didn't know a lot of what you told us about in this video. I did know about the Fletcher Munson curve and we were told this was what the loudness control on a lot of amplifiers was for to basically compensate for how our ears responded to sound and volume. Yamaha came out with a novel approach to this problem by having a variable loudness control. Thanks again for a very informative video. I didn't know that the RIAA system only came into use latter on as records and recordings became better. Thank again and keep these video coming.

@Cotronixco

6 жыл бұрын

"Loudness" basically turns up the bass for you as you turn down the volume control.

@jeremyclayton-travis1991

6 жыл бұрын

Yep thats what I was saying. It's because of the Fletcher Munson curve in our hearing at know volumes. Some manufactures simply supplied an on off switch for the loudness control. Yamaha had a variable control. You can achieve the same affect with the tone controls.

You just reminded me of the large tv/sound system combo we had when I was a kid in the 70's. Maybe 6 feet large, had a radio on the top left and a 78RPM/45RPM/33.3RPM turntable on the top right, large b/w TV in the middle front, one speaker each side. I remember when you trned the TV off, the image would scale down to a dot in the middle which remained lit for half a minute, slowly dimming as the capacitors slowly discharged. The old beast was made with lamps. We got our first color TV in the late 70's (78 or 79?) a Zenith that proudly showed "solid state", and which after a few years needed "tough love" (a good slap on the right side) to start displaying an image. A component card inside came off with repeated heating/cooling cycles, and needed some persuasion to make contact properly. At first we only had 2 tv channels: SRC (French Canadian CBC) from Rouyn-Noranda and CBC from Ontario (Timmins?), which showed really snowy. In the 80's we had a lot of new channels: we got Télé Métropole from Montreal (TVA's ancestor), and Radio-Québec (Télé-Québec's ancestor), all re-broadast from Mont-Vidéo near Barraute. In the late 80's we even got a 5th channel. When I say this to kids nowadays, it's like i talk about rotary phones :-D

You are absolutely charming, and a great teacher. thank you so much.

Love the Scott Walker album in the background.

@FranLab

6 жыл бұрын

One of my all-time favorites.

@DavidWatts

6 жыл бұрын

I am a sucker for Jackie from Scott 2

@goopah

6 жыл бұрын

Well now I'll have to go and look that one up. Thanks.

@goopah

6 жыл бұрын

And here it is: kzread.info/dash/bejne/oKWN2sWeYbSyedY.html And it sounds fantastic.

@Moonfreeze

6 жыл бұрын

Hear, hear! I love that 1-4 series.

Not only were the 78 and 45 different in composition but also in the way the grooves were cut. 78's had a "hill & dale" or vertical up & down. The 45's had a side to side. The 78 tended to shear off the top of the groove every time it was played. Great video

@carcinogen60yearsago

4 жыл бұрын

78s never had Hill and Dale grooves, you might be thinking of wax cylinders or the "Edison diamond disk" records.

This was how I made a playlist back when I was a kid. Stack 'em up!

Love the positivity and sharing information.

Thanks, Fran, very cool info. I was especially interested to learn about RCA's color coding system, which explains why those little box sets of classical 45s (the equivalent of the original book-style 78 rpm "albums") were pressed in red. I have just one in my collection: Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake" on five red vinyl 45s on RCA Red Seal.

When I was a teenager, I had an old console TV/record player (TV missing) that would play 78, 45, 33⅓, & 16 rpm. Them old Mel Blanc Bugs Bunny 78s sure sounded funny on 16rpm.

@gerryroberts662

4 жыл бұрын

really..

Very informative video, Fran. Thanks for all your insight.

I love anything analog and have 6000+ lps and 1200+ 45's, so naturally I love Fran's presentation. Thank you Fran

This was super interesting!

Adorable AND smart!

Fran you're a amazing teacher...thanks for sharing

I am impressed. Wish I could have a soda pop with you - just to sit and talk. Thanks for the effort and the education. Great job.

I have a box of Chopin shorts (short pieces) on red transparent, 45 rpms… Also a 33 1/3 rpm (black vinyl), 45 rpm format, proably from West Germany… :)

Whenever I see translucent red vinyl, I think of the red Nazz album.

Marvelous Fran, really enjoyed this . I learned a lot and the way you presented it was great. Many thanks again.

I love playing 45's. As a child I spent many many hours listening to my cousins 60's records. I really liked this video.. j~

Sigmund freud action figure 😂😂😩

@nefariumxxx

6 жыл бұрын

Saw that. And I noticed the civil defense (yellow) radiation survey meter there too.

@goopah

6 жыл бұрын

Ha! Good catch. I had not noticed that until you mentioned it. I am now scanning the rest of her shelves.

@afrog2666

6 жыл бұрын

+Evi1M4chine everything is about the mother, lol. and he gave Coke to friends and patients xD "take ziz undt call me in ze morning, jaa?"

@afrog2666

6 жыл бұрын

+Jan Christian Frodahl and psychology is more than neurology and chemistry. a lot of normal people get fucked in the head due to bad upbringings, PTSD etc etc

@BrooklynAvenue

6 жыл бұрын

You couldn't be more wrong, guessing you've got a freshman's view of Freud from an intro class. Just google the word "projection" today along and count how often the term is used. And that's just ONE Freudian concept.

When I was child in the late sixties, I got my first record player--a white plastic GE model meant for kids. I didn't have any 45s but I mailed in some Kellogg's cereal box tops and got 2 Banana Splits 45s! This started my love affair with 45s. Anytime I had any money, I would ask my mom to take me to the store to buy some records. By around 1980, I had over 400. I then inherited my parent's, sister's and uncle's old 45s. By the end of the 80's, I had over 700. My very last 45 I bought was in 1989--Milli Vanilli's "Baby Don't Forget My Number." LOL! I still have all my 45s and have, of course, transferred them to MP3 but I miss buying new ones. I never understood why the concept of the single kind of died with the 45. I never liked "cassingles" or mini CDs. Oh well.

@Scrimjer

6 жыл бұрын

DaveST my 1st record player was a tube zenith cobra

@RockitNowAlready

6 жыл бұрын

I still have most of my 45RPM collection and play them occasionally on my VM1200 which can play 16

@426roads4

6 жыл бұрын

DaveST never knew they had a single cassette

@davidsradioroom9678

6 жыл бұрын

Yes. I have a few of them. They usually had from two to four songs on them. Cassettes started taking over the 45 market in the 1908s.

@thewillismon

6 жыл бұрын

@DaveST I think I had the same GE record player as my first one, only in beige. A stereo with 2 tiny speakers, that folded up like a suitcase. I remember the white models were around, and maybe black ones too. Thanks for the memories!

Amazing knowledge and such a relaxed, easy to understand presentation Fran. Thank you for all your hard work and fine detail 😊

I enjoy learning about vintage electronics and especially audio. Thanks

How I progressed through this video. OK, this is kind of interesting Now it is really interesting *looks at sidebar* Wait, she also does fountain pens? And old computers? And space? *clicks subscribe button*

@rogervoss4877

6 жыл бұрын

Likewise!

@timemerson4162

5 жыл бұрын

Same.

@Enfield2A

3 жыл бұрын

Indeed - Fran seems to be a remarkable person.

I didn't know there was a color code system in place?

@GeoNeilUK

6 жыл бұрын

If you look through Wikipedia and the history of records in the 1920s 30s and 40s there were quite a lot of labels that were dedicated to releasing "Negro" music (and some labels actually used that word to describe the sort of tunes you'd find on orange 45s) or they'd have a different coloured label or they'd have an entirely separate catalogue number system. It was all labels of colour for music of colour, so to speak. In the UK, we didn't care or didn't notice, though we did create our own scene for "music of colour" ...we called it Northern Soul, and just as black people were disadvantaged in America, so disadvantaged working class people took to Northern Soul. Just like disadvantaged working class took to reggae, ska and 2Tone.

@hannahmich7342

6 жыл бұрын

Evi1M4chine Ok I did or didn't know but I do regret asking about what I should have known. I think?

@hannahmich7342

6 жыл бұрын

GeoNeilUK Somehow just saying negro music seems so odd and out of place in my life today. Yet this sort of terminology was very common within my earlier youth. In my mind black people are so intrenched in my personal culture that negro music is my music. Of course that goes for classical music or anything else within the music world. But yes negro music was first owned by a small segment of black people brought here by force who made the most of a bad situation. I would like to think of it as a gift of pain and survival or better yet rhythm and blues.

@RockitNowAlready

6 жыл бұрын

If one watches a rock n roll documentary, one will see those who blazed the trail like Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf. The Beatles spoke of their heroes as Chuck Berry, Little Richard, and Elvis.

@GeoNeilUK

6 жыл бұрын

"You must be in public school to be so politically brainwashed and misinformed." Why did you say that?

Fascinating and informative. Thank you Fran!

Really! You have no idea how much i love your spindle adapter

Do you have any 16 RPM records? I've never actually seen one, but I used to see the 16 speed on the floor model stereos and the component sets that had 8-track players.

@xaenon

5 жыл бұрын

Musicvegan01 I have a number of them. It was really a specialized, extra-long-play format and never really achieved a mainstream status for a number of reasons. They were made from the early 1950s through about 1973 or so, and were primarily intended for 'talking book' records and educational use.

@Windhawk

3 жыл бұрын

When I was a kid, the library in our town had the Bible as a 16 RPM album (box set, I guess you'd say).

@chrismarshall5014

3 жыл бұрын

I’ve been record hunting for a good ten years and I’ve never seen any.

@scottconnors8419

3 жыл бұрын

You showed the green 45 of Eddie Arnold, I have a RCA w a song called jaw jaw yap yap yap..if you don't have hunt it down .real cool tune..nowadays soft skin people wouldn't get the dry humour of it....love to pull your pigtails towards my 3000+ lps and gosh knows how many 45,s and 7" as known as the rock n punk genres. Good knowledge w your vids...wish I could meet a women friend who digs music n wax like u...

@drewgehringer7813

3 жыл бұрын

the widest use was early audiobooks for the blind, and that market disappeared as soon as compact cassettes got better than dictation-quality.

Totally different machine; but that carrier kinda reminds me of the "washing machine" hard drives with their removable platter packs... 🤔

@dougankrum3328

6 жыл бұрын

...'Washing Machine'....I worked in a 'computer lab' in 1978-80...they operated a home brew publishing company, used 4-5 of those old hard-drives with the 12" (?) and had 5-6 disc's stacked up...you actually had to change them, like records....back then, I always thought they were about the size of a washing machine, and the whole disc drive was protected by just a clear plastic dust cover........ Apple had just released their first 'Personal Computer'.....we had a couple....tiny 7-8" yellow text monitor... a Few Kbyte's of...RAM, and programs were stored on Cassette players...at 1200 Baud rate....

Fran, your videos are awesome. So glad I found them!

Great video. I like your channel. I stumbled across your channel by total accident by looking for something, and you had a video on the subject. You have knowledge in a lot of areas dealing with recording equipment, computers, I enjoyed the Jacob's ladder, and this. It's people like you that make the world go around. Thank you for sharing.

Good video - very interesting.I wonder who decided that what the world really needed was an accordion version of "She loves you".

@FranLab

6 жыл бұрын

Don Estler, that's who! :)

....11:35....Jukebox, interesting that the 'tone-arm is opposite the usual position. Are the needle/cartridges different? I seem to remember the standard type cartridges had the needle slanted slightly so the needle would drag, rather than cut into the grooves?

@piratetv1

6 жыл бұрын

Doug Ankrum i think some of those had dual tone arms to play A or B side, the other arm is going the right way. other mechs could flip the record to A or B

Just stumbled across this video. I was in grade school through the 50's. Only my girl cousins had the portable 45 record players. Got into electronics while still in grade school. When you looked at electronics catalogues there were two type of potentiometers - those with a 'linear taper' and those with an 'audio taper'. The audio taper pots were meant to be used as loudness controls in audio circuits. I'll have to watch more of your stuff.

Very interesting and well presented. Thanks for sharing!