I am doing some research into the running of an independent record shop in the UK in the 1960s. for example, did every shop have a wee listening booth? Who put the record on? How many headsets were there? Generally what were the staff like? Who sold the records to the shop in the first place? Etc
Not every record shop had a listening booth, if you wanted to hear a record then you asked the assistant behind the counter to play it for you. When the assistant played the record the whole shop could hear the record as well.
The listening booth that I went into (UK) did not have headphones, you just went into the booth, shut the door, and the assistant played the record and you could listen in the privacy of the booth. There was only enough room in the booth for two people.
As for who sold the records to the shops, that I would not know, I can only assume that they came from a main distribution point. I would just go into the record shop, have a look at the hit parade list on the wall and choose a record.
The shop I went to had 3 booths,they didn't have headsets then just one small speaker in the booth – you have to remember back in 1963 there were no pop stations or tv programmes, there was Saturday Club, Easybeat & Pick of the Pops on Sunday on the radio, all in mono , around 10 hours of pop music per week.
How were independent record shops in the UK run in the 1960s? How did the booths work for example?
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