This six minute reminiscence therapy download clip will remind you of the past records that perhaps you had as part of your family entertainment programme. Reminisce about the different artists seen on the sleeves featured in the clip. I am sure you had a wind up gramophone to play your favourite tunes. Here are some of the things you will see in the clip.
• Don will start this musical clip with a couple of chords on his ukulele
• See the names of the past artists
• Remember visiting the record shop
• How electricity powered the gramophone before that the crank up gramophone was used
• Some people had a stereogram that was a luxury for us that we could not afford
• The sleeves had a lot of information on the back
• Hear about our favourite artists
• Scottish artists promoting their records at local shops
• Our favourite was Jim Reeves
• Listening to the records motivated Don to be an entertainer
• Some of the leading record labels are featured
• Today the vinyl records are coming back
The gramophone was a great form of entertainment prior to electricity coming to Aberdeenshire in the late 1960s