Forty-seven tapes to go.

I had one that was unlabeled on the box, but inside was a slip of paper saying “Emmy Lou Harris Luxury Liner.” Well, I have “Luxury liner” on CD, so I figured that if that was all that was on the tape, it’d be a quick toss.

So I start playing it, and there’s “Luxury Liner,” apparently taped off WKQQ in 1978… and after that album there’s more music; it doesn’t stop. There are five individual songs, and then… another album. “Don’t Look Back,” by Boston. Which I did not have.

So now I do; I just finished editing the MP3 version. And I have “5.7.0.5,” by City Boy, and “Can’t You See,” by the Marshall Tucker Band, and “Double Vision,” by Foreigner, and why don’t I own any Foreigner albums, anyway? And “Kiss You All Over,” by Exile — that came out when we lived in Lexington KY, which is where Exile was from, so it was huge there. And “On the Border,” by Al Stewart, which has me thinking I should get a copy of “Year of the Cat.”

The copies aren’t perfect. There are weird little glitches. I fixed a couple — half a second of repeated music in one song, and an opening the DJ accidentally played at 45 RPM instead of 33 — but most weren’t worth fiddling with, or weren’t fixable. The DJ’s cross-fades weren’t bad, but they cut off beginnings and ends some places.

There’s just a little bit of hum, not bad enough to be worth trying to correct, and there’s a tiny muffling in places, but these are good enough to be worth playing.

Anyway, that filled out Side 1 of the tape; “Don’t Look Back” ended about ten seconds before the tape ran out. And Side 2 was completely blank.

Next up is one labeled “Assortment #1,” which includes a typed song list. If it’s accurate, I have everything on Side 1, but there’s stuff on Side 2 I’ll want. I have most of it, but not all.