When did applauding a record start?

 

Yule

  On 11/05/2014 at 10:47, ulyssees said:

When did applauding a record start?

 

Yule

 

End of 1976

I have to say that when I 'returned to the scene' in 1997 (thanks to Mr Levine and SWONS) I found the applauding of records somewhat strange and still do to this day!

  On 11/05/2014 at 10:57, JulianB said:

I have to say that when I 'returned to the scene' in 1997 (thanks to Mr Levine and SWONS) I found the applauding of records somewhat strange and still do to this day!

 

 

You're just upset because it never happens when you're on  

 

 

Kegsy ( who's name was chanted for an encore by the crowd at one venue I did, I believe you were there that night).

Edited May 11, 201411 yr by Kegsy

  On 11/05/2014 at 10:58, Kegsy said:

You're just upset because it never happens when you're on  

 

 

Kegsy ( who's name was chanted for an encore by the crowd at one venue I did).

Bugger off Kegsy

  On 11/05/2014 at 11:00, JulianB said:

Bugger off Kegsy

 

 

You should know better than to give these kind of openings old boy.

  On 11/05/2014 at 10:57, JulianB said:

I have to say that when I 'returned to the scene' in 1997 (thanks to Mr Levine and SWONS) I found the applauding of records somewhat strange and still do to this day!

I would have found it strange if Levine was DJing and people applauded his selections...did they boo and hiss when he played the Four Vandals?

 

Pete's right about 1976, Casino era, impossible to pin down the night, DJ or record. Must have been something spontaneous. Did it start because the crowd applauded the end of a great set and then folk carried on clapping each record? As clapping on the beat had been around for years, it was only a small step to applauding a good record, and in the mid1970's, they just kept coming.

I'm sure i remember applauding at the Mecca.Possibly after Ann Sexton ,CC on the decks.

  On 11/05/2014 at 11:35, FRANKIE CROCKER said:

I would have found it strange if Levine was DJing and people applauded his selections...did they boo and hiss when he played the Four Vandals?

 

Pete's right about 1976, Casino era, impossible to pin down the night, DJ or record. Must have been something spontaneous. Did it start because the crowd applauded the end of a great set and then folk carried on clapping each record? As clapping on the beat had been around for years, it was only a small step to applauding a good record, and in the mid1970's, they just kept coming.

 

Well a tape I recorded in October 1976 has no clapping at the end.  One I did in January 77 does have clapping.

I, of course, invented clapping after a record, it was after a play of Looking For You.

I am only semi-joking

  On 11/05/2014 at 10:58, Kegsy said:

You're just upset because it never happens when you're on  

 

 

Kegsy ( who's name was chanted for an encore by the crowd at one venue I did, I believe you were there that night).

 

 

Labour party conference?

  On 11/05/2014 at 10:47, ulyssees said:

When did applauding a record start?

 

Yule

 

Topic was covered most recently back in September......

 

i was at the casino the night ian levine was promoting his "weakspot"  and some of his other tunes he got a few boos from the crowd and i remember him throwing 45rpm copys of his various tunes into the crowd and someone threw one back , made me laugh at the time...

I reckon Pete S has it about right. I remember applauding, from about '76, probably the dance floor taking sides during the Oldies vs. Newies arguments at the time. I wasn't applauding the record itself, it was done more to show the DJ that we appreciated him taking a risk and to encourage him to carry on. Of course with the majority preferring oldies, the 'clapping competition' was soon won by the Oldies crowd.

I was asked to leave a house night as I applauded after a record (god knows what it was) and the bouncer thought I was being 'sarcastic' to the DJ.

  On 19/05/2014 at 20:14, ElGeePee said:

I was asked to leave a house night as I applauded after a record (god knows what it was) and the bouncer thought I was being 'sarcastic' to the DJ.

 

Surely, you must have been being sarcastic to applaud a house record?

  On 19/05/2014 at 21:25, Pete S said:

Surely, you must have been being sarcastic to applaud a house record?

 

I was young and foolish and not entirely 'sober'.

  On 11/05/2014 at 10:48, Pete S said:

End of 1976

 

No Pete, That was last time you went out mate!! 

 

Mark T

  On 20/05/2014 at 08:33, marktsoulman said:

No Pete, That was last time you went out mate!! 

 

Mark T

 

No that was 2011