Little did they know, I’d performed this same set of numbers thirty times or more when I was in my forties.
Or when I will be in my forties, I guess.
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The 45 rpm records would hit the market soon, and I hoped to be discovered by a record company before then.
RCA Victor would be selling their automatic record players for $12.50, and the records would cost 69 cents. That wasn’t a lot, but if Dad could work out a deal where we’d earn a commission of a few cents on each record sold, we could be making thousands of dollars when the 45s came out.
That night, after we got back from the bar and everyone was asleep, I slipped out to the barn to do some research on the 45 rpm records and portable record players to go with them.
The battery was fully charged; the solar panels worked we
