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45 Singles You Just Had to Buy

In the bad old days before the internet & streamingđŸ˜€, what pieces of music did you have to purchase on a 45rpm single because there was no other genuine way of getting them home? The trouble was that more often than not, an album cut of a rock-and-roll hit would be a different version/take/mix of the one you loved hearing on the radio. Which means you just had to get the 45.

Here's a random handful of mine --

Hanky Panky -- Tommy James & the Shondells

Save the Country -- Laura Nyro

She Don't Care about Time and Change is Now -- The Byrds

Baby Please Don't Go -- Them

Candy Girl -- Four Seasons

The Battle of New Orleans -- Johnny Horton

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My era, early 60’s, only girls bought 45’s, to play at basement dance/make out parties on small portable changers with a built in single speaker, flip over needle, Penny or Nickle taped on top to stay in the groove.

I inherited a bunch of Jazz 45’s, washed them, play on my main system, some sound darn good. They usually have a few songs each side.

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