Hi this little record is 6in in diameter it’s 78rpm home recording title is aloha recorded by a home artist carl davies he recorded it on 23 02 1938 I found this record in a old wooden box from a friend who was cleaning up a shed thank brad

IT was my 17th birthday the year 2017 (an outrageous year to be me). My Great aunty knew that I was heavily involved with kiss at the time ,so with love in her heart and money in the bank she decided to buy me my first Turntable and included with it the groupie fueled present of KISS, The Best Of The Solo Albums. The sex fueled charisma of this band was exactly what a hormonal teenager like me needed at that time. Thank you aunty Ella!!!!!!
This album introduced me to vinyl, which then led me to what I consider my first true album which came to me a year later. This album, the first album I purchased was Supertramp Breakfast In America the Master recording. Splendid, fantastic, surreal and true to my heart ohhh god what a treasure of sound. Right when I had finished school, moved out of home and started working it appeared to me. If there are gods than thank them from the bottom of my soul because it came at the right time.
But my oldest album, is Donovan’s Barabajagal. I Cant even begin with this one. Nuff Said!
So there they are. Oldest owned, oldest purchased, and oldest release.
Thank you and good night!!!!!

My Mum gave me this record when I was 12, she won it from entering a competition in the Countdown magazine for submitting a Live Photo. It was the first vinyl I owned and got me into starting my own collection. Although not my favoured genre of music it remains my favourite because it is what kickstarted my now passion and hobby. It’s nice to have a shared love of music with my parents.

I was a trolley boy at a supermarket in ’81 and the record store next door was playing “Stay Young” by INXS so I went in and brought it. So started my love affair with INXS. I played my records on my parents old record player. Did the job.

It was a birthday gift from my mother she gave me $10.00 the album was $7.99 not bad for a 44year old lol that was constantly played and today still is

This Nat King Cole 1957 release of Stardust/When I fall in love on 10 inch shellac (78) had originally been my grandmother’s. She loved music, was widowed young, and did a wonderful job of instilling a love of music into her children, which has flowed down generationally. For the last two decades I’ve had her collection to care for, transporting it everywhere. However, I’ve only recently taken the time to start the process of cataloguing them all – and those of my father’s that I’ve ended up with. Whilst our tastes are (vastly) different, I love having these in my collection, and on display; and knowing a little bit about the history of them. It always brings a smile to my face thinking about members of my family in the 1950s huddled around listening to the “new releases” of the time, and that experience of hearing something for the first time. There’s a wonderful purity in that.

Early on in my collecting, I was digging in the $2 bin at beat disc in parramatta. I came across this gem and couldn’t believe my luck. I grabbed it straight away.
I don’t think I’ve found a better deal since.

Every Sunday morning our elderly German neighbour would play his classical records and German Oomph Music really loud. We always had a laugh but in general the music wasn’t to bad. There were times we would seem like we were in competition with each other. I’m sure he would have hated The Ramones, Placebo and the Lime Spiders. Unfortunately he got to the stage that he moved in with his Daughter. So I was taking the dog out for a walk on a Saturday afternoon just before it looked like it was going to pour. Out the front of his house in a pile of rubbish was his record collection. There were around 15 records all like the ones in the picture. Well…I couldn’t let them be thrown away there were to may enjoyable Sunday mornings. So grabbed them all and they now sit within our record collection. He and his wife were great neighbours often dropping German treats over. 🙂

Before i even owned a record player back in 2010 i found this at a garage sale for $2, My first toto song i ever heard was ‘Hold the line’ so i had to pick it up.
Its what got me to end up buying a record player and began my now 300+ vinyl collection.

This was originally my mothers which she has hung on for for years. My parents where having a garage sale and asked my what price they should put on their old record player and vinyl set.
My reply was simple, “They are too valuable to sell, i’ll happily take them and keep them in the family”. It has been a few years and i finally have time to try and restore her old player now.