Well, two of the tapes in unmarked boxes were blank — or at least, one I played was blank. Another tape still had the factory seal, so it’s a pretty safe bet it’s blank. I didn’t bother breaking the seal to play it to check; I put it aside to be disposed of.

The third, though, has stuff recorded from WKQQ Lexington KY on it. Quality’s pretty bad. What’s kind of weird is that from the DJ’s remarks this appears to have been recorded the same day as one of my cassettes, in the summer of 1980. Earlier, though.

I didn’t recognize any of the music, which is a bit odd, but then I realized I wasn’t after the music when I recorded it. There’s an episode of “The Lone Ranger” on here.

And an episode of “The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.”

And one of “Superman.”

That finished out Side 1; I left Side 2 for later.

I transferred the Lone Ranger episode (“The Short Route,” from 1953) to MP3, but the quality on the others left a great deal to be desired, and when I googled for dates and titles I discovered they were both available as free downloads from archive.org. So I downloaded them, and won’t bother with the tape versions.

(The episode of the Lone Ranger is still under copyright, it appears, while the others are listed as public domain — apparently the copyrights on the first few Superman radio episodes weren’t renewed, same as with the Fleisher cartoons. Later episodes, not so much.)

And after that was done I played Side 2, which is blank except for a few seconds of music so badly distorted I don’t recognize it at all. (It may even have been recorded at a different speed.)

So that’s another tape done. Twenty-seven left.

(I’ve done a little sorting on the twenty-seven; something like half are stuff by local acts I recorded live back when I was a teenager. I have no idea what the sound quality is like on those.)