• Thank you Tara. I was beginning to feel like I was alone on this issue. Monika, I'm in the same position as you. I hear you sister. In fact, I could have written exactly what you wrote. So tired of having to do it all. - Sandy
  • You've nailed it, Corinne! - Amanda Mack
  • DURING AND AFTER WW2 LUX SOAP WAS ENDORSED BY ALL THE LEADING HOLLYWOOD STARS OF THE DAY AND i EVEN THAT A TENDER AGE SAID I WOULDN'T USE IT BECAUSE I WOULD END UP LOOKING LIKE MARJORIE MAIN (MA KETTLE) SO I HAVE NEVER TO THIS DAY BOUGHT A PRODUCT ENDORSED BY A "STAR:" - Sarah
  • We are all so anxious not to be influenced by advertising, and we are influenced even if it is to buy a cheap knockoff or try to make it ourselves. - Sally
  • I tried pronking today, held on to the back of the couch and launched myself into the air, I rose at least 5 mm. Pronking is joyful to watch but impossible for me. - sue Bell
  • @Madge- perhaps Gina doesn't have a problem being fat. Perhaps she is not unhealthy. Not all of us fatties are gross, depressed and sick individuals. Thanks for the concern trolling but weight = / = health. Anyway. Great article Tara. I'm not a parent and I have a relatively well-paying and stable job but this still scares the hell out of me. I don't want to retire with less super than my boyfriend. I don't want to earn less than the guy doing the same job as me (well I already do- I aim to change that though). I don't want to be a parent, and this is one of the reasons why. - sami
  • Oh I do love the PRONK! Smiling on Mondays, yeah!! - Nel Matheson
  • I have never bought anything because of a celebrity endorsement. That would be ridiculous. I'm not a big fan of most celebrities, and the ones I do love aren't the type to do silly advertisements. Also most things that are advertised just don't match up with what I'm looking for. Jimmy Choos? Very pretty, but very expensive and I don't wear leather. Swisse? I buy Cenovis because it was cheaper/what I wanted. Pepsi? Tastes shite but boyfriend loves it so that's what he buys. I have a Nespresso machine because it was affordable and easy to use, I'm not a Clooney fan in the slightest. So weird that people get sucked into this stuff. - sami
  • There is no simple answer to the obfuscation caused by the mining industry. I doubt we will ever get the hard facts on the financials simply because (as any intelligent investor knows) profit and loss can be covered up by creative accounting (more the profit). In a similar vein, I no longer believe either Labour or the Liberals (which is disgruntling because I have been a Liberal supporter most of my voting life, until now). So who do I vote for now ? - Donald
  • "All of the companies doing the digging have historically paid royalties to the states. But these were woefully small which is why Kevin Rudd as prime minister decided to impose a 40 per cent super profits tax on all mining and petroleum companies on the realized value of the resource deposits they extracted. As history shows, Julia Gillard renegotiated the tax with a handful of the big miners, after she ousted Mr. Rudd. The result is a 22.5% MRRT on a handful of iron ore and coal companies whose resource profits tip $50 million per annum." Why why why? Why wasn't this changed back to the original 40% in the budget? Nothing to lose, everything to gain! Big big disappointment. Thanks Monica for this piece. - Annie Also
 
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Categories:  The Way We Were

REMEMBER WHEN… WE HAD 45 RPM SINGLES?

By The Hoopla
September 3, 2012

 Do you go waaaay back to the days of 45 RPM singles?

In the 50s and 60s they were aimed at teens who didn’t have a lot of money.

For your dough, you got one song on the “A” side that you loved to death and that mediocre “B” side that you had to learn to love to get your money’s worth.

Surprisingly many “B” sides did become hits -  like Bill Haley’s Rock Around the Clock  and The Beach Boys Wouldn’t It Be Nice.

(Showing that highly-paid record executives who made the decisions often had cloth ears.)

And then there were the “double A” artists like Elvis with  Don’t Be Cruel /Hound Dog  and The Beatles with We Can Work it Out / Day Tripper; Yellow Submarine/ Eleanor Rigby and Strawberry Fields was backed with Penny Lane.

It wasn’t until 1968 that LP (Long Play) records outsold singles.

Singles are still sought out by club DJ’s and if you look, there’s probably a box of them in your parent’s garage, scratched beyond recognition and covered in candle wax.

They often ended up being used frisbees as the party got well and truly out of hand. In the morning, they were unplayable and only good for drink coasters.

 

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7 Responses to this article

  1. Calloway Luddington September 4, 2012 Reply
     
     

    I hate to be pedantic, but by 1968 LPs were played at 33⅓ rpm, not 78. 78s ceased to be produced by 1960.

     
    • Wendy Harmer September 4, 2012 Reply
       
       

      Quite right… brain snap. Easier if I call them LP’s.

       
  2. Calloway Luddington September 4, 2012 Reply
     
     

    Do you remember the first single you ever bought? Mine was The Valentines version of Build Me Up Buttercup for 99 cents. The two lead singers Vince Lovegrove and Bon Scott (yes, THAT Bon Scott) were ‘just dreamy’.
    And here it is….http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQ-45XG7n4k&feature=related

     
  3. Kerrie September 4, 2012 Reply
     
     

    OMG – The Archies ‘Sugar Sugar’.

     
  4. Karends1101 September 18, 2012 Reply
     
     

    The age of Aquarius/Let the sunshine in by 5th Dimension circa 1969

     
  5. sue Bell February 13, 2013 Reply
     
     

    I had a 33 1/3 birthday party a 45 party and hoping to make it to a 78 party.
    I used to listen to classical music as a small child on a wind up gramophone 8 sides of a record to a symphony, I also used to give my chickens merry go round rides on the turntable and if we ran out of gramophone needles we would use pine needles.

     

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