Before the CD Player, There Were…CD Players

I remember back in 1986 when I first saw the first in-car CD player. Wow! One could jump from track to track at touch of a button. No hissing, FF, RW buttons and waiting. It was a revelation. I missed the 8 track craze of the 1970’s less the Black Sabbath cassette living under the seat of my MGB-GT in high school. So digital CDs were high-tech by 1986.

Or were they?

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Here’s the late-great George Harrison back in 1964 with his E-Type. He is feeding the then, high-tech Philips Auto-Mignon a 45. It too, could jump from track to track (with a stabilized stylus) with a touch of a button or a bump in the road.

Gotta wonder what 45 George was slipping in the player… “Not a Second Time”?

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