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They have it taped I MUSIC TRADE IS BOOMING


IT'S a fa.scinating thought that although he is still a comparati'vely young man Mr Philip Ames, joint managing director of Ames Record Bar, has seen such a change of emphasis in his trade.


j-'ceords to the LPs, stereos and tape cassettes and cart­ ridges not to mention the aiiadrophonic records which, for ihc experts, beam .sound from four loud- spea'sers simultaneously.


n'n from the old 78 rev.s- ‘•c'r - minute gramophone


He'.s watched the tables


Tliafs certainly been a revolution in sound. Mr


ivmcs came in as a part- time market trader at the (,.,(1 of these fast-re\dng.


i.'irce minute playing time records, whicli in their day brought music to million.s of li‘omc.s. Now they are almost antiques, repositories of nostalgia of arttsts and orchestras once household


acmec


old ilic COnt',-CK;u;oj n.s missionary wort


f. lie removed tliem to I Niitenan t!re.ss of the


"■ ’f cas.sock and


lo rn for churcli-voing |ie e r gucsus at the gar!


.vi'.li a display on mls- work, Witli them is


rirty arc pictured l id Mr Pluckrose. land


I H- LofUioiise, the CMS representa-


Choice


45 rpm singles and 33 rpm LP.s (long playing records),


lutiom.scd the business, with .M


.il'O in prices. LPs came in for a golden guinea; and quality was improved, both


There w’as a revolution


on mono discs and through the introduction of sterco- piionic .sound. Remember that EMI demonstration record with the sound of a table tennis ball passing ■horn one side of Hie room to the other ? Now these advantages


.and even inaxLsingles (33 ipm four track records).


Time and technique revo- r Ames’ stall next offering


provide two programmes (each on two tracks) en­ abling the tapes to give either mono or stereo repro­ duction, according to the type of player used, and ope r a te at fjin. per second. The cartridges, at '^in.


being compressed into a 4in. by 21in. cassette giving about 45 minutes playing time, for as little as 99p.


brought another revolution. The cassette type come' as cheap as £9, and are exten­ sively bought as birthday and Christmas presents, for youngsters of seven upwards.


These small tape players


.‘’teady increase in demand lor mini-tapes until the boom really got under way about two years ago; when a com­ paratively limited selection was replaced by thousands of tapes, right across the spectrum of the entertain­ ment world.


Mr Ames experienced a Quality


nave been tr.ansfered to ■ape, with oven the biz ' and nr.ific and large orchestras


reel to reel tane recorders, these mini-model tapes are not ptfimarily intended for re-recording; and are de­ signed so that two holes in the case have to be filled in before re-recording, so that the tapes cannot accidently be wiped clean. But blank tapes are also available. Experience points to


Unlike the once familiar


c a s s e t t e s being mere orientated to the “top of the pops” type of market. They


per second, give a slightly better tonal reproduction, especially on higher fre­ quencies, providing four pro­ grammes—stereo only. These tend to be more popular for quality music and big name artists, who graduate to the LP category.


many customers buy every week, recognising tlvat a record or tape makes a Icng- term contribution to the quality of their life. Sales are also something of a baro­ meter of national economic pro.sperity—up in booms and down in slumps.


record was a luxu^ reserved for special occasions.


Revival


lomers like to consult ex­ perts and so do the record marketing companies, who, Mr Ames finds, maintain a closer liaison with their buyers than in any other field of industry. They make daily telephone contacts. A tune can be heard and liked on TV or radio one night and be in the shops 48 hours later, sometimes even within 24 hours.


In an age when a star can But wlien buying, c...s- At one time buying a I row.


THE fifth Ames shop, the Ames Tape Centre, just opened at Nclso7i’s Arndala Centre, with Mr Tomj Ames behind the counter.


be born overnight, and new melody sets the newspaper boy whistling, popularity is ephemeral. Artists and "ongs (if they last long enough) graduate to “standard," and finally to the ranks of the “ evergreens.”


fall like meteors, occasionally a handful of Beatles add a new dimension to the scene, or a Glenn Miller discovers his own “ sound,” which spans the generation gap. And on the classical side


Many pop artists rise and


the masterpieces and the maestros never die—although the new recording techniques give ever-improved reproduc­ tion.


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IF IT’S MUSIC — or any other form of audio- entertainment—the Ames family have “ got it taped.” From humble beginnings tx’hen the then teenager, Philip Ames, got a part-time job selling gramophone records from a stall in Nelson market, back In 1958, the family business has spread througli four towns in North-East Lancashire.


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Now a fifth shop, Ames


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It opened at the weekend


Ames family have taken the chance to extend at Arndale by converting a shop near


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no fewer than 3.000 tapes, covering just about every range of tape-recording, from the classic and roman­ tic mood music, through pop, to the building demoli­ tion expert who made a name on telveision, “Blaster Bates ” in “ Laughter with a bang.”


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and round, so did the Ames Record Bars. In July, 1966, premises were opened in Rawtenstall. Tlie following year an even bigger bar was opened in Burnley with Philip taking charge; and brother Tony stepped in to run the Rossendale bar which he later moved to larger premises. He was a qualified sheet


.4s the music went round


Nelson is Tony's wife, Mrs Ann Ames; while Philip's wife, Mrs Monica Ames (who is a laboratory tech­ nician at Bass Charrington’s Burnley Westgate brewei-y) also helps to control the ordering of stock, and gives a helping hand to the Bum- ley manageress. Miss Irene Butler.


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PARLIAMENT, as you may know, has just been in recess for the best part of two weeks. Just before we broke up the Commons was on the verge of making itself ridiculous and when the House of Lords resumed last week it managed to succeed where we had failed ■ . . . all over Lords Lambton and Jelllcoe.


clear. Willi Lord Lambton I have exchanged something lilte 10 words of convensation since 1970. Lord Jellicoe I have never met in my life. Bought sex to me happens to .sound cither repugnant or liidicroiis; no doubt tlicy hold, or did liold. different views. Which is where this wliolc question would have remained, a purely personal matter, if the two of them liad not been Her Majesty's Ministers.


Let me make myself


were both public men and have had to rc.sign. the national Prc.=s has had a bonanza, both sides of the House of Commons oozed solemnity, responsibility and rc.straint until I tlionght it would burst under tlie strain, and the House of Lords very nearly collectively burst into tears as if their best loved Member. a paragon of all the virtues, had suddenly dropped dead on the spot.


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.stage, when the Security Commission, a number of eminent gentlemen, includ­ ing a judge, a general and a Civil Servant, will solemnly sift through the evidence of pimps. prostitutes and pliotographers. to find out it the security of the country has been endangered. Frankly. I feel sorry for


Now we move on tlie next Westmioister David Waider extra-marital sex are not


the only danger it we are considering the quality of public life. A Civil Servant in a Housing Department i.s in possession of secrets more easily saleable tlian tlie Minister who knows of tlic location of the Polaris sub­ marine fleet.


at least, reveals potentially a far more worryng state of affairs than all the Secnrily Commission is likely to extract from its collection of reluctant and pro'oably worthless witnesses.


The Poulson inquiry, to me Finally, I lliink we should


be concerned at the case with which compromising or embaiTassing informr.tion works.


situation wliere an MP was harried out of public life be­ cause of a photograph of liimsolf, unmarried, in bed with a girl in Moscow,


We have already had f.ie


the Prime Minister. No doubt irritated by what I can only call the foolishne.ss of two of his colleagues, ho had no other cour.se but to put tiie rest of tlie pon­ derous machinery to work to reassure the public that no actual breacli of security had occurred. If he had not done so ho


“ FRAME-UP ■ ’


number of reasons, I beg leave to doubt. Lord Jellicoe was a member of the Cabinet, but what in con­ sequence did he know that a number of senior Civil Servants didn't also know? The date when we start digging the Channel Tunnel?


SECRETS


Lambton? The Junior ^.linister in charge of the RAF? No doubt he could have reeled off the number and types of military aircraft in service. So in fact can I, with the help of “The Military Balance," a useful li.aiidbonk published each year by tlie Institute of


'strategic Studies, If an international vice ring


20 H IT S BY


O R IG IN A L A R T IS T S INCLUDES


metal worker, who ex­ changed the racket of “tin bashing ” for the more soothing sound of orchestras —or even heavy rock. “ At tlrat time,” says Mr


T. REX, JACKSON FIVE, WIZZARD, ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA, DEEP PURPLE, TEMPTATION.''' and MANY MORE


ASSETTE OR CARTRIDGE


Philip Ames, “the Burnley venture seemed a tremen­ dous risk, almost frighten­ ing But it proved a turning point in the business" Next came the move


from Nelson market to the new Anidalc Centre; then, in October, 1971, the open­ ing of another bar in a pium position in Blackburn’s new shopping precinct Now the


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really is operating, obtaining and selling militaiY secrets to the Russians, it would be better advised to get its fingernails into a Flight Sergeant from one of the radar e.stablishmeiits, 'iie- cause he, unlike his lordship, would actually know how all the complicated gadgets


work. Let us for the moment


a.s.sume that the two Mini­ sters really did possess secrets of untold value which it revealed to the nameless " foreign power ’’ would put this country to disadvantage. To get anywhere, Liack-


mailing pressure would have to be applied and would have to work. plainlv it was not. and if


liave been revealed as being foolish aiid immoral, but not liar.s or criminal.-, and the mot'.iods and stand.irds of certain newspapers I'ave been called into que.stion. Which one might say is really nothing new. To apply tile ' words " tragedy or ■' crisis ’’ to such sordid r.ibbish is to misuse the Eugli.sh laiigiage. What, liowcver. I think is


it had been, neither Minister would have yielded. All that happened, and only in one ca.se. was ’ that someone hawked round some indecent photographs to a number of newspapers. As a rcsnll, two Ministers


Yet what about Lord


moment at the question of security. As this magic word is anplied to Ministers, it suggests that the.v. and they alone, are the possessors of Imowledge which, if made P'.rolic. would do this eo’’n'r.v harm. Tills proposition, for a


would, of course, have been accused of irre.spDnsibillty or of trying to hu.sh up a scandal. In fact he acted with connnondablc prompti­ tude as did. to bo fair, tlic two Ministers in tendering their resignalion.s. Let ns look, thongli, for a


“ frame-up ’’ are frighten­ ingly obvious. Yet the takers of such photograplis, or the vendfi.5 of such information, are seemingly not regarded, as they should be, with tlic same contempt as tlie writers of poison pen letters.


The po.ssibilitics of a


of my constituents lias written to me about tlie Lambton affair, but I tliought it rijlit to .state iny views publicly. Undiscusseil it could very easily get out of proportion, cither tlirougli an excess of .sj inpalliy or suspicion.


So far I must confess none


election platform as Harold Wison.


Stole


watches from firm


POLICE in Biirnlcy dis­ covered that wristwatches were being sold cheaply in the area—and as a result of their inquiries a Clitlieroe man appeared before Clitheroe mag is tr a te s charged with stealing 15 watches, worth £30.


of Parson Lane, was fined £15, and ordered to pay £30 when he admitted stealing the watches from Sliorts (Lancs.) Ltd, Shawbridge Street, Clitheroc, while he was employed by them.


Paul Alexander Lee (21).


forgotten in favour of di,s- cussion of the next political non-event, the apuearance of Enocli Powell on'tlie same


No doubt it will soon be


that Lee had made a state­ ment admitting that he took the watches from the shop where he used to work. Tl)e watches, he added, hatl not been recovered.


Insp. T. J. Sumner said


sorty I did it. It was a very silly thing to do.’’


In court, Lee said: “I am


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FOR ORGAN SOCIETY


TO help Clitheroe Parish Chiircl) Organ Society de­ fray recitalists’ fees, a coffee morning and evening


is to be held in Whallcy on Wednesday. It will be at the home of


dan.geroiis about the Lamb- ton affair is that it has qtiite wrongly cencentratcd onr minds on one facet of public life and private morals. 01 course the standards cliange. Onec n,ion a time divorce was enouzh to end a political career. Now it doesn't seems to matter. Nevertheless, wo still apply


higher standards to' onr politicians than to others.- Actors, pop idols, aiitliors and businessmen can- all do things, apparently without blame attacliing, wliich would expel us from- our Parliamentary seats 'ike


shot.5 from a gun. —------ Ministors and


a committee member of the society, Miss Betty Postle- thwaite, of The Grove, from 10-30 a.m. to 12 noon, and from 7 p.m, to 9 p.m. Attrac­ tions will include bring and buy and cake stalls, a tom­ bola and nearly new articles.


been active in raising money for the Whalley Parish Church organ appeal fund, and hopes to continue her efforts for this cause later in the summer.


WRONG WAY"


FOR driving a car in I.5ib wrong direction in York Street, Clitheroc, Thomas William Greenwood (50), of Leamington Avenue, Burn,


ley, was fined £3 b,y Clitheroc magi-strates. H« admitted tlic olleuce.


Miss Postlethwaitc lia.s "d: v:' , t . ■ ■C i f,iv ilAiti i uO " ■ l i ii'q


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