The Music Will Never Stop 48

That Audacity problem is fixed, more or less. So “Hair” is done, at least for now. (There’s stuff I may tinker with later, but I don’t need the tape for that.)

Next up, a tape labeled Reel C that says Side 1 is Walter Carlos and Side 2 is Judy Collins. That’s more or less accurate.

I already have “Switched-On Bach” and “The Well-Tempered Synthesizer,” which make up most of Side 1. Those are probably from the same LPs I taped in the first place, and either way, they’re unneeded. I filled out the side, though, with five tracks from the soundtrack of “A Clockwork Orange,” and I didn’t annotate them at all when I recorded them. I can’t seem to match them up to any of the track lists I found for the album. Sound quality is somewhere between decent and marginal, and the album is not available for download (I understand Carlos and Kubrick had a falling-out, which may have contributed), so I’ve saved these, but have not yet filled in the metadata. It’s going to be somewhat difficult.

As for Side 2, this is most of my father’s Judy Collins collection — “Golden Apples of the Sun,” “Fifth Album,” and the first few tracks from “The Judy Collins Concert.” “In My Life” isn’t included, and that’s the only one of her albums I already had, so in theory this is new material I should be saving — but the quality isn’t so great, and these are available as downloads.

I added those three albums to my Amazon wish-list and left it at that.

Twelve down, forty to go.

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