gold record

noun

a former name for gold disc

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“I’ve never had a gold record, which is fine with me. I was working in a bookstore when we recorded ‘Horses,’ and after we finished touring, I thought I would be back in the bookstore.”

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Martindale, who received a gold record for the recording, performed the piece on Ed Sullivan’s popular Sunday-night variety show.

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“Freaky Tales” gets its title from Too Short’s nine-minute song of sexual braggadocio from his 1987 gold record, here foreshadowing a gender-war comeuppance he deserves.

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He started recording in 1962, then earned his first gold record in 1969 with the single “Little Woman.”

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The group has been defiant and prolific, producing 15 full-length albums — one gold record, “Punk in Drublic,” among them — 17 EPs and countless seven-inch records.