Peanuts Begins by Charles Schulz for February 27, 2021

I’m surprised they can listen to them. Surely CB’s record player is a 45 while the records are 78s. (And I bet Millennials have no idea what I’m talking about.)

yeah, what is a rocking chair when looking around Patty’s house?

The (now) retro look of Mid-Century Modern.

Funny, this is the actual title of a song. It sounded made up.

“Rockin’ Chair” – Hoagy Carmichael 1929

I wonder which recording they’re listening to?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81uOcHk8Kno

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vapoNZBrGxA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdtwXsFCpFg

An Eames Lounge Chair Wood in lower left of the last panel.

I remember, when I was a little girl in about 1947 or so, that my mother had an old-fashioned wind-up gramophone player. It was built into a polished wooden cabinet and played the 78 rpm discs. She also had some large size 78 rpm discs. They were very heavy and had classical music recorded on them. I also remember receiving a gift of a 16 rpm long-playing record when I was about 15. They played for ages, the whole disc could be used for party music but they didn’t ever catch on here in South Africa.

Then in the mid 70’s, there was a song by Gwen McCrae called “Rocking Chair.”

Could’ve been Louis Armstrong!

Of course they had phonographs! You just had to turn the crank at a constant speed.

How many kids today know what a phonograph is? And how old is this strip. When I was that age it was called a record player.

I had a Dual turntable where I could increase or decrease the speed a bit. some songs did sound better, to me, with a change in speed (usually faster). I missed that thing.

Next on YouTube: videos of kids reacting to seeing a rocking chair for the first time

Back then, their phonograph probably had 4 speeds: 16, 33-1/3, 45, and 78, so they would have been able to play these probably very fragile old records.

And, I just LOVE their mid-century furnishings… some people nowadays would like all of that retro stuff for their homes… I’ll bet Patty’s parents even have a pink bathroom with matching toilet paper (back when paper would come in colors)… ;-)

Ok who went to youtube?

.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdtwXsFCpFg

And today the question would be, “What in the world is a phonograph?”(Or “What in the world is a record?”)

George Jones

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e913EJVVIHE

You have to love Mid Century Modern

Whoa! a Pole lamp! Kool (well maybe lukewarm…)

ironic that this would be a story about not recognizing a rocking chair when now kids won’t recognize the LP record.

Forget rocking chair. What the heck is a “phonograph”?

In the six decades since I first saw this strip, I still haven’t happened upon (or sought out) that song.

Till now. Richard Thompson sounds good.

I never expected they would like a song so… calm.

And those old blues songs about ‘rockin’ chairs’ and ‘jelly rolls’? I doubt the youngsters would understand!

Sick thing is how acurate for today this seems. Well, my niece at least knows what they are (wonder if she still fits hers)

Oh, come on. They had plenty of rocking chairs in the 50s and 60s even with mid-modern furniture.

It’s a chair when you sit and listen to rock music and you’re rocking out

I remember a 1975 song titled Rocking Chair by Gwen McCrae.

Flipping the stack of records (as mentioned by BIGLAR) meant that full length operas were played 1A, 2A, 3A, 3B, 2B and 1B. We also had a windup player in the garage that was never played in the house in my time, but it actually used cactus needles instead of the later osmium, sapphire, etc. – and it worked!Today’s comic apparently has brought up memories for a lot of people.

The chair in the bottom left corner of the last panel rang a bell. In the early 1970s, we got a few of them from my grandfather when he was clearing out his house in New Jersey, prior to selling it and making a retirement move to Florida.

Shocking how relatable this is to modern tech …

The record player my folks had could handle 78s, 45s and 33 1/3s. Also, we had that pole lamp!

This is “Peanuts Begins”, so it’s got to be fairly early, and it’s got to be pre-1960 or so, because of the association of rocking chairs with John F. Kennedy. The joke wouldn’t have landed in the early 60s.

In the early 20s, speeds were sloppy; it really depended on what brand the record was, and so records were labeled with the correct speed. Record players of that era had continuously-adjustable speeds, and better record players continued to include the feature for old records, even after 78 had been nailed down. In the 50s, we actually had with a pointer that could be set to anything from 33 to eighty-something. (It also came with a well for storing needles, since old steel needles lasted only half a dozen records or so.)

This, however, is obviously a kiddy player. It could be 78 only, 78/33⅓, or 78/45/33⅓. Maybe 16⅔, too, but that was only used for talking books, so I wouldn’t expect it.

As late as the 50s, some kiddy players were still non-electronic. The needle would connect to a diaphragm, and the sound would go through an expanding tone arm, into the case, through an internal horn, and finally out the body. But this is clearly a modern tone arm playing through an amplifier and speaker.

I’m living for the MCM decor. Right on!