Sound Recording History
Sound Recording
Rod has always had a niche for music and states that he grew up in “polka country.” In fact, his parents were both very musically inclined. His father knew how to play multiple instruments and was in a band throughout his earlier years of life, so Rod actually listened to live music growing up more than listening to records. He remembers going to big band dances where music from the famous American trombonist, Tommy Dorsey, filled the room. It wasn’t until his early teenage years that he began to buy records of Elvis Presley and Barbara Mandrell, his favorite recording artists. He stated, “Now Barbra Mandrell isn’t even worth 10 cents! That goes to show my fine taste in music,” in reference to his ‘not so great’ investments in the record department. Back then he could purchase a record for $1.00 and a large album for $3.00, something that has clearly changed over the past several years and was a large expenditure at the time. He remembers the excitement of going with his mother to the large department store in Green Bay and shuffling through the shelves of records until he found the song or artist he was searching for.
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Although in today’s society TV can often times have a negative affect on families, Rod believes it had the reverse affect on his own, in which he stated, “it made us even closer.” He remembers various things about television in the mid 1900s, one of those being the quiz show scandals that took place in the 1950s. He specifically remembered one in which $64,000 was involved and won by cheating. The quiz show scandals began to rapidly change the way individuals viewed television, my grandfather being one of them. He was in disbelief and shock that contestants were getting the answers before the show and lying about it to gain fame and
Rod has always had a niche for music and states that he grew up in “polka country.” In fact, his parents were both very musically inclined. His father knew how to play multiple instruments and was in a band throughout his earlier years of life, so Rod actually listened to live music growing up more than listening to records. He remembers going to big band dances where music from the famous American trombonist, Tommy Dorsey, filled the room. It wasn’t until his early teenage years that he began to buy records of Elvis Presley and Barbara Mandrell, his favorite recording artists. He stated, “Now Barbra Mandrell isn’t even worth 10 cents! That goes to show my fine taste in music,” in reference to his ‘not so great’ investments in the record department. Back then he could purchase a record for $1.00 and a large album for $3.00, something that has clearly changed over the past several years and was a large expenditure at the time. He remembers the excitement of going with his mother to the large department store in Green Bay and shuffling through the shelves of records until he found the song or artist he was searching for.
Since records …show more content…
Although in today’s society TV can often times have a negative affect on families, Rod believes it had the reverse affect on his own, in which he stated, “it made us even closer.” He remembers various things about television in the mid 1900s, one of those being the quiz show scandals that took place in the 1950s. He specifically remembered one in which $64,000 was involved and won by cheating. The quiz show scandals began to rapidly change the way individuals viewed television, my grandfather being one of them. He was in disbelief and shock that contestants were getting the answers before the show and lying about it to gain fame and