Forty-seven tapes to go.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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<\/i> there. And “On the Border,” by Al Stewart, which has me thinking I should get a copy of “Year of the Cat.”<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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<\/i> of it, but not all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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