Forgotten 45's do not forget the fun!

Back when I was a kid, we bought our favorite tunes on vinyl - either 45's, which contained an A side with the popular song, and a B side with a not so popular song - or albums, which contained a whole bunch of songs.

45's had a big hole in the middle of them... and if you didn't have a fat tube adapter to put on your stereo, you used one of these adapters shown in the picture. Then you could play them on the skinny needle like thing that you put the albums on.

Great sounds - and the art work on albums was a collection in and of itself!

You had to be careful not to scratch them....

Times have changed, and so has music, as it always will.

Putnamania's local radio station, WINY Radio, plays a "Forgotten 45" each morning at about 8:20-8:30am. They are always a great blast from the past (which doesn't seem like it could actually have been that long ago). Listeners are encouraged to request these.

You know this Putnamaniac requests quite often - things like:
The Partridge Family's I think I love you
Climax's Precious & Few
The Carpenter's Bless the Beasts and the Children
John Denver's Thank God I'm a Country Boy

You also know I just requested another one - WINY's Putnamaniac extraordinaire Gary O let me know that tomorrow he is playing it!
Badfingers' No Matter What

What a great place to live! You can request your own forgotten 45, and it gets played! Good times!

I am a Putnamaniac because we remember the Forgotten 45's and never forget to have fun!