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I have some 78s, but they're packed away in the garage somewhere, along with the fifty 33 1/3 "singles" that I won from KJR radio's weekly "Fabulous 50" contest, in I think 1962! I still have most of those. ("Quarter to Three" was #1 that week!)

The only 78 out in the garage that I can remember the title to, is the Tweety Bird Song... "Tweety's my name and I don't know my age, dum dum dum dum, in a bright guilded cage. I got a trapeze & dum dum dum dum"... (guess I've forgotten some of the dum dum words!!) He says "I tot I taw a puddy tat" in there, too!

Oh, & I have Jimmy Boyd singing "I saw Mama Kissing Santa Claus" on a 78RPM.

A couple years ago, I went to a store in search of a phonograph needle, & asked 1 of the (young) clerks where I could find one, & she said "phono... what?" I explained to her that it's a needle that you play records with & she looked at me like I was from Mars, & said "Well, the needles are in Notions,,,, aisle 14B." !! Poor kids these days, don't know what good music is, either!

Bill, I SOOO envy you that Big Band era collection! Honestly, I can "smell" those records, just sitting here thinking about those days!
Wow! (That's the up-dated term for "groovy" & "Cherry", you know!)

Sorry... but just a little...

Bill, do you remember a song by PG&E (Pacific Gas & Electric), called "Are You Ready"? I've looked all over for it... for many years, & it seems to have vanished! (It probably went to that "zone"... the warehouse somewhere in Yakima, along with the mates to several million sox, all of which were part of a PAIR when they went into the dryer!)

I've asked DJ's of "60's/70's Hits" stations, & while they DO remember it, they can't seem to locate it either! (I don't remember where it got to on the charts, but it was big right around 1969.)

was that "are you ready? yes I'm ready. To fall in Love...with you.."

Bev, I don't think so, but I can't say that I even remember the words now, cuz I get it mixed up with the other song by the same title, which came out several years later. All I can remember is that at the very beginning, a guy hollers "ARE... YOU... READY?
(I think!) I do know that there were no girl singers with PG&E, though.

If I heard it again, I know that I WOULD remember all the words, immediately! I'm a lyrics freak, & know the worlds to all the songs of that era (& most of the 40's). ...well, the songs that I KNOW, anyway! I mean I CAN'T know ALL the songs of that era, cuz there are probably a million that came out that weren't "rock & Roll songs", & THOSE are the one's I'm talking about!!!)

I'll quit before I confuse myself ... again!

hmmm... that's not the one I was thinking of because it had a girl singer.

Now maybe we can get back to the REAL topic here: 78 RPM Records!

...because Papito PM'd me with a link to ARE YOU READY? - by Pacific Gas & Electric . It'd be nice if they offered a sound clip of it on that site, but the words are all there! Thanks bunches, Papito!