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Cheers - This is Alex - your music man, record guy, host and curator of The Vinyl Playground Podcast. Here, I take a look at a rather large collection of records, my family's record collection. 12 record collectors under the same roof, and the music we collectively bought between 1936 and 1987. Originally intended as a personal letter between 2 musical cousins discussing family and music, The Vinyl Playground has bloomed into a "musical family tree" with almost 100 years of recorded music.
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The Vinyl Playground Podcast - "Ep. 8 - Love, Honor and Meat Lips Mix-Tape"
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Fall, 1984 - I was a newly-minted high school freshman, surrounded by the then-current Top 40 (Prince, Madonna, Michael Jackson, Springsteen, Cyndi Lauper, etc.). My ear, however was tuned to the music of nearly 20 years earlier - the music of the 1960s. And mixed in with the music? First love. First kiss. Last suspension from high school. Yup - lo…
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AKA "Love and the Campus Fuzz," this is a 45-second segment of upcoming TVP Episode 8 - HS Freshman: First Love. Cheers! Alex is the owner of "The Vinyl Playground," the online, mail-order vinyl LP record shop. The items you see in these videos are all for sale, via the internet, at: https://www.discogs.com/seller/thevinylplayground/profile No copy…
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Fast recollection of the afterglow following my first kiss, freshman year high shcool, 1984. It was a doozy - and part of me is still "stuck on stupid." Cheers! Alex Oliver is the owner of "The Vinyl Playground," the online, mail-order vinyl LP record shop. The items you see in these videos are all for sale, via the internet, at: https://www.discog…
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The Vinyl Playground Podcast - Ep. 4 - "The Crest of a New Wave"
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Episode 4: The Crest of a New Wave. I recount, recall, and remember some of the first "new" music I heard via radio and television in 1979 - 1981. This included music by Blondie, Elvis Costello & The Attractions, The Police, and Pretenders. The Vinyl Playground Podcast takes a look at a rather large collection of records, my family's record collect…
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The Vinyl Playground - Ep. 5 - "Boss Radio Revisited"
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This episode focuses primarily on my discovery of 1960s pop music, as a 12 / 13 year old in early 1980s Los Angeles. Music by The Dave Clark 5, Spanky and Our Gang, John Fred, Neil Diamond, The Kinks, and The Animals. Alex is the owner of "The Vinyl Playground," the online, mail-order vinyl LP record shop. The items you see in these videos are all …
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The Vinyl Playground Podcast - Ep. 6 - "Sketch Book Cyrano"
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1982. Age 13. Junior high school. Teenage love. Friendship, and betrayal. Acne, and more record money for vinyl LPs. It's a story as old as time - love "short circuits" the brain of young man. The musical soundscape of the times included songs by J. Geils Band; Human League, The Righteous Brothers, Patti Austin (with James Ingram); The Who; The Isl…
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The Vinyl Playground Podcast - Ep. 7- "Access To The Family Treasure"
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Summer, 1978. Age 9. My family movies, and I get my first glimpse of "it" - the family record collection. At the time, it was 42 years worth of collecting. Be prepared to share memories and my varied musical soundscape of the times: songs by Frankie Valli, Gerry Rafferty; Tower of Power, The Beach Boys; Lambert, Hendricks and Ross, Chicago and Sant…
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