Dansette

She gave me all her Beatles, Stones and Supremes singles and her Dansette when I was seven, but I didn't know albums (or LPs as we called them then) existed until she gave me Jimi Hendrix's Smash Hits.

Ian Brown: Soundtrack of my life 2010

When he opens the mock leather lid of the Dansette record player, the smell of old vinyls and glues and plastics whirls him back through years and decades.

Masked Lou Anders 2010

Memories of adolescent gropings as that track played on a Dansette record player.

A Particularly Cruel and Cleaver Trick. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2008

When he opens the mock leather lid of the Dansette record player, the smell of old vinyls and glues and plastics whirls him back through years and decades.

Masked Lou Anders 2010

Gerry pulls an old Dansette record player from underneath a pile of books and papers, then leafs deftly through the pile of record sleeves and removes Miles Davis's Bitches Brew from its protective sheath.

Broken Music, A Memoir Sting 2003

He keeps on saying that it's not a Dansette, quite, because it has some slight difference, but hey.

I still call it a Dansette mzdt 2003

* S had rung from the Chiswick car boot sale to ask if a Dansette would be welcome.

Ladyfest Manchester (Sun) jinty 2003

It went really well and I had a great time, particularly with stunning people with the Dansette-equivalent plus iPod combo.

Yay! mzdt 2003

On a table under the window was a Dansette record player, dark red plastic with cream knobs.

A Place of Execution McDermid, Val 1999

Four months later, Fall manager Kay Carroll yelps with delight as the song, called Psycho Mafia, spits forth from the tiny Dansette on the mantelpiece.

FallNews - anecdotes 1999