My first record player! The bulb burned out soon after we bought it, Dad cheaped out and wouldn’t buy a replacement and thus the film-strips were worthless.
This thing was also murder on records! My copy of Hall & Oates’* “Kiss on My List” was forever wrecked by this monstrosity!
Here, see it in action:
Funny, I always thought the moral of “The Gingerbread Man” was “Don’t act like a jerk, or people will rejoice when a fox finally does eat you.”
*Not a vintage_ads-specific joke, I actually did own that single.
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Date: 2016-12-14 11:46 pm (UTC)This thing was also murder on records! My copy of Hall & Oates’* “Kiss on My List” was forever wrecked by this monstrosity!
Here, see it in action:
Funny, I always thought the moral of “The Gingerbread Man” was “Don’t act like a jerk, or people will rejoice when a fox finally does eat you.”
*Not a
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Date: 2016-12-15 01:17 pm (UTC)It definitely sounds like the song is being murdered!
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Date: 2016-12-15 12:01 am (UTC)