Sounds

sam­bear brought home this cool switch thing. It can take four audio video/inputs to two out­puts. I grabbed the first thing that came to hand to test the phono input—Daddy’s Sounds of Marine Corps Boot Camp. Now there’s a new lis­ten­ing experience…

Oh—I have a stack of albums here that my par­ents want to be trans­ferred to CDs now that we have a turntable. Herb Alpert and the Tijua­na Brass’ South of the Bor­der, Duane Eddy, 24 Of Hank Williams’ Great­est Hits (that’s the orig­i­nal), Floyd Cramer, Jer­ry Lee Lewis, The Statler Broth­ers’ Bed of Ros­es, and more. I think I regret­tably (snerk) left with­out Loret­ta Lynn or Tam­my Wynette.

The boy dug sam­bear’s box of albums out of the stor­age area—he just put on a record­ing of Har­lan Elli­son read­ing some­thing. Katie is absolute­ly fascinated.

But there’s some sort of rhyth­mic noise that’s there no mat­ter which album is on. Got­ta fig­ure out what’s mak­ing that. Does it need a new nee­dle? I don’t remem­ber much about record players.