Pat I'll be
God I feel old,,, I still remember being with mum in the indoor market stall buying "I am sailing" Rod Stewart & "Mississippi" Pussycat , back in 1976 I do believe
When I started getting interested in music, I'd put my Dad's 78s on his radiogram (yes, he had one of those, more like a piece of furniture than a music system). These included such classics as Bill Haley and the Comets, The Shadows, and Englebert Humperdinck.
HAS he died?
You think your old? I remember going into the local record shop with my Dad and him buying 78rpm records, though I can't remember the titles now, the shop had a row of booths down one side and you went into a booth to listen to the record before you brought it.
Yep , that's very old