Keep Fit to Music!

[dzavracky]

I was out this morning and went to my local thrift shop. They had these there and I couldn’t pass them up.

It has what seems to be all the original papers and all 6 records with directions! It even has the letter that Wallace sent to the person who bought them

This cost $15 for the set in 1942

How cool

[VanEpsFan1914]

LOL that's awesome--

You know these are actually old acoustic records, right? They were (if I remember right) made back in the 1920s first, and stayed in print for quite some time. I think they're pretty cool.

Used to have a 1940s set missing maybe one record? Anyway, it was thrown out when my father insisted I destroy almost my entire 78 collection when I was 16. Boy did I ever pay him back...I bought five or six times the amount of records. Still wish I had the 1920 12" Paul Whiteman pressings on Victor that also went to the landfill, among many other fascinating old records from the neighbors' attic.

Well, the $64 question is, David, are you going to "keep fit to music," or would the cringeworthiness destroy your posture?

[Detrbear]

The Internet Archive has some of these records. Wallace must have redone them, as they don't sound acoustic to me...

https://archive.org/details/78_keep-fit ... Music.flac

So sorry to hear your father made you get rid of most of your collection!

[dzavracky]

They are definitely not acoustic records!

[VanEpsFan1914]

Well, then it is good to know they are electric. I went to see discographical info on these today and found out there is a version floating around from the 1920s, and then the 1940s one. I probably confused the two.

They are a peculiar find--I think the directions are funnier than the idea of watching people trying to work out in front of the living room record player!

[dzavracky]

I know right


Here some pics of the instructions

[Gatyam]

I think I pulled a hamstring...I'm gonna go lie down.

[dzavracky]

The instructions did mention soreness..... you must be doin it right!