Short of the 45p (plus bus fare into town) to buy the latest hit parade favourite? No matter, just phone up this service to hear a crackly version of it, for the price of a phone call! A tad more limited in scope than Spotify, perhaps, but a darn sight more rewarding. And for the youngsters, there was Dial-a-Bedtime-Story, wherein a celebrity (usually Johnny Morris) tell a five minute story on an infinite loop. The fact that you were almost certain to phone up in the middle of the story, thus having to listen to the end before you got the beginning, enhanced the experience tenfold.
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I remember listening to Dreadlock Holiday on Dial-A-Disc and, being the tight sod that I was, decided I would record it down the phone using one of those little microphones you sometimes got with a hi-fi system, and pressing it right against the receiver.
But of course I had no idea when the song had ended, so my recording had all these little silences throughout, where I’d pull the mic away to listen to see if the song had ended, and then quickly press it back to the receiver again. And as for the quality….
I also remember that if you dialled from a pay phone you got about 10 secs of the song free. Seem to remember listening to Boys Keep Swinging like this, until I’d heard it all the way through, with people outside the phone box, banging on the glass!
Posted on November 21st, 2009 at 10:54 pm
BT used to advertise this & many other services like this on the back of the phone book in the mid 1985s.
Posted on June 22nd, 2010 at 10:40 pm
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