What's your earliest memory of R3/Third Programme

[eighthobstruction]

I have lots of ancient things in my wardrobe and in other parts of my house (and mind!) but, alas, not a Grundig - so it must be someone else you're thinking of eighthobstruction!

oh....i will now have widen search Bella....

[eighthobstruction]

oh....i will now have widen search Bella....

Ah it was on "Things Time Forgot" thread....LezLee posted with ref to french frank post and photo....

[alycidon]

This goes back to 1954 when I started at grammar school in Bristol. We had to leave at 7.45 for the bus but I listened to the Third Programme from 7.00 onwards - when it started for the day - and it was usually an overture followed by a symphony or concerto. It was frustrating having to run for the bus before the end but this was where my love for classical music had its genesis.

[Ein Heldenleben]

....You need a trip around to Bella Kemps....I think it was her who showed a photo of a Ancient Grundig she still has in wardrobe in a thread here recently....I bought a cassette -computer device a while ago [years], but never got around to it. First thing I would digitise though is about 15 x C90 of me reading childrens book before the copious number available now....but that is yet another example of being Boomer resourceful and using iniative....{good for me....ha ha}

I used to have an ancient Grundig in the 70’s complete with bespoke non-compatible cassettes . I started by recording the Top 40 on Sunday evenings trying to start the recording after the DJ v/o and cutting off before the DJ’s return at the end. I then progressed to recording the complete Beethoven sonatas Brendel recorded in 72/3 (?) for R3 - performances which became the benchmark for me..,

[cloughie]

I used to have an ancient Grundig in the 70’s complete with bespoke non-compatible cassettes . I started by recording the Top 40 on Sunday evenings trying to start the recording after the DJ v/o and cutting off before the DJ’s return at the end. I then progressed to recording the complete Beethoven sonatas Brendel recorded in 72/3 (?) for R3 - performances which became the benchmark for me..,

...and unlike Fluff, Brendel didn’t talk over the intros!

[Ein Heldenleben]

...and unlike Fluff, Brendel didn’t talk over the intros!

True - I later discovered the DJ’s did to frustrate the legions of home tapers ....but 7s 6d was a lot of money for a two sided 45

[LMcD]

...and unlike Fluff, Brendel didn’t talk over the intros!

I think he talked over the intros to discourage people from recording off-air.

[Alison]

...and unlike Fluff, Brendel didn’t talk over the intros!

I imagine you’ve got a Fluff Classical Compilation CD in your collection, Cloughers.

Next time I see one in a charity shop I will purchase. A very likeable character.

[Alison]

Stay Bright.

[cloughie]

True - I later discovered the DJ’s did to frustrate the legions of home tapers ....but 7s 6d was a lot of money for a two sided 45

6s 8d - but yes, particularly if the A side wasn’t brilliant and the B side a thrown together song designed th give the artists royalties!

[cloughie]

Stay Bright.

Not arff!

[Alison]

6s 8d - but yes, particularly if the A side wasn’t brilliant and the B side a thrown together song designed th give the artists royalties!

How much was a full price LP in that era?

[Ein Heldenleben]

How much was a full price LP in that era?

I'm pretty sure that one of the first classical albums I bought was a full price EMI of Barenboim playing the Waldstein in about 1973 - It was £3 (I think ) the equivalent of £36 now - but there was lot of inflation in the early 70's so price comparisons are tricky. It might have even been more than £3 . LP's were phenomenally expensive - a good 3 course mea with winel for 2 would be about £10 in the mid seventies. My first wage in 1976 (for a junior accounts clerk job - one that would now be done with a flick of a computer key ) was £60.

And if you tell that t'young folks today ...they just don't believe yer....

[cloughie]

How much was a full price LP in that era?

I’m talking mid 60s now - In 1964 a pop LP was £1/12/0and a classical one around £1/15 to £1/17/6but cheaper labels like Ace of Clubs and HMV Cincert Classics were 21/-and 22/6 - the appearance of Music for Pleasure in 1965 at 12/6 was when the real bargains started, Supraphon were 17/6. These prices were however from time to time subject to changes in purchase tax!

[Serial_Apologist]

I’m talking mid 60s now - In 1964 a pop LP was £1/12/0and a classical one around £1/15 to £1/17/6but cheaper labels like Ace of Clubs and HMV Cincert Classics were 21/-and 22/6 - the appearance of Music for Pleasure in 1965 at 12/6 was when the real bargains started, Supraphon were 17/6. These prices were however from time to time subject to changes in purchase tax!

Saga were 10/- in 1965, then they went up to 12/6 - can't remember precisely when. That was how I was able to afford the three LPs of the Bartok Quartets played by the Fine Arts Qt, and Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire coupled with Stravinsky's Dunbarton Oaks, which rendered me an instant convert to mature Schoenberg, but not to Stravinskyan neo-classicism, at that particular time at any rate. I got 'em all at WH Smiths in Earls Court Road. Most British-made LPs, classical or jazz, seemed to go at 38/- at that time.