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ny miles nearly 70 years ago download audio letter to roy play for those down home folks here are a couple of fellows playing together on accordion and guitar so i ve called it accordion and guitar i spent most of the day yesterday working on that file name download unknown accordion and guitar play and now it s time for an acetate of the month this is a wisp of a record at 66 seconds it is almost as short as the extremely short very short reel below it this is a voice o graph record no doubt made it a both in some sort of store perhaps a department store or 5 and 10 cent store something like that as i ve written before such machines were still around when my grandmother visited us and we made such a record circa 1967 i suspect this is from several years before that but really have no way of knowing anything but the date may 29th the singer speaker billy and the recipient dad the sound quality is atrocious as is billy s sense of pitch while singing happy birthday i actually can t make out much of what he says and sings after that song perhaps some listener will be able to decipher it download voice o graph 6 inch acetate billy sings happy birthday to daddy may 29 play and finally a very short very short reel it would appear that this tape either had its genesis in the hanna barbera studios or at the very least passed through there it contains the music bed for the theme to the relatively unsuccessful h b cartoon top cat which only lasted one season followed by what i assume is tag music to be used to introduced or come out of an episode or perhaps to be heard over the final credits any guesses as to who the t t listed on the box below is was would be welcome if anyone has is any doubt that this is the actual arrangement and performance of that theme s backing track a comparison with the show s opening should convince you download unknown top cat main title music and tag play posted by bob purse at 10 36 am 3 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels 1950 s 1960 s 1970 s accordions acetate of the month antony bilbow audio letters bbc birthdays children demo reels guitar home recordings music stories television theme songs top cat very short reels saturday january 31 2026 a remarkable document of radio television and a home visit and a church service too in 1970 plus khj greetings i have something extra special today at least i find it to be extra special and i think a good portion of the audience for this site will as well i only have one reel plus the almost mandatory very short reel today but it is just over four hours long and is both a treasure and amazing example of something i might be willing and able to share more of if there is interest for those who don t dig this i will have a more varied program of taped wonderment next time around although this is pretty damn varied the story behind this offering goes back well over 30 years ago and involves the mammoth music mart i have mentioned this wondrous sale at least a dozen times in various posts and on the multiple blogs i ve written for or current write the explanation i ve given for it is here the short version is that this an immense tent sale which ran for 25 years on the north shore of chicago with literally all formats of recorded sound for sale in support of als research and whoo boy did they have reel tapes i would go there for the whole day with my best pal stu and both of us would pore over the tapes one of those years i m guessing around 1990 we found that someone had donated a remarkable set of tapes perhaps the recordist had died and the family had donated all of his tapes i m absolutely going to assume this recordist was a man precious few women would have been this obsessed with collecting sound and what amazing tapes they were this person had recorded virtually anything that appealed to him or interested him off the radio off of tv from personal conversations from in the field i e lectures given at national parks while on vacation and more he was chicago area based but recorded things when he was in other cities and towns too he seemed to be particularly interested in advertisements which crop up repeated between other recordings often not bothering to record whatever show was being sponsored by those ads and he also seems to have been more than a little adhd recordings of certain things go on and on and then are interrupted by something else mid thought just as you think you re going to hear the whole program whatever it was you don t other times he might record something at length in today s offering he does this with a frank sinatra movie and then would erase part of it with something else resulting in a segment of tape that has xx number of minutes of movie then x minutes of something else then xx minutes more of the movie it s really scattered and he also appears to have recorded things on other tapes perhaps cassettes and transferred them to his reels so that the order of things recorded is not always chronological he decorated nearly all of the boxes with pictures of albums and performers here is the box cover for the tape i m sharing today and he kept meticulous notes about what was on the tapes almost to the point of obsession but not always in the most helpful manner a page of notes might have the first section of the tape listed on the right hand side then the second part on the left hand side the a bit more of the contents listed on the back of the same paper he also sometimes listed the number of the tape recorders odometer where something starts but other times just wrote in sections 1 2 etc often as with this offering regarding the same side of the same tape here s the big news i have hours and hours and hours of this stuff between stu and i we bought well over two dozen of this man s tapes this one is labeled 53 but the ones we own start in the single digits and go well into the hundreds sadly we were not able to get the full collection and what i m sharing today is only one channel of four on one tape the left channels are almost always recorded at 3 3 4 ips which on this tape means nearly two hours to a side the right channels were recorded later presumably after he got another machine and they are almost always recorded at 1 7 8 ips meaning in this case nearly four hours to a side this tape alone has nearly 10 hours of material on it and my friend and i have more than 25 of these tapes so if anyone is interested let me know and i will do my best to digitize more of these and share them again understand though that it takes hours to go through these first and not all of them are as interesting or as varied as this one although many are this particular tape comes from the tapes my friend stu bought we each bought about half of them i have had stu s tapes in my house for about ten years having promised to listen to them and give them back and well i still haven t done that i listened to all of mine 25 30 years ago long before digitizing was a choice thanks to stu for allowing me to have these tapes all this time and for agreeing to let me share this tape in the case of this tape i have scanned all of the content notes and they are below i think i have posted them here in order most of what is on this tape is from 1970 but the first material in this offering is from 1969 some of the highlights in order there are myriad commercials listed during and in between these segments a program featuring the work of young black poets recordings made during visits to jacksonville and miami including some music and other things from local radio including news of moratorium day the day before this was actually in 1969 the date on the sheet is wrong the frank sinatra movie i mentioned recordings from a christmas eve church service kukla fran and ollie on chicago public television this is extraordinarily wonderful i love kfo al capp being the a hole that he was or at least had become by 1969 70 coverage of portions of the 1970 super bowl and post game part of a tonight show episode a local chicago newscast from 1 20 70 segments of a few sitcoms a home recording of a visit from a family member more news specifically about the end of the chicago seven trial a few more shows including a documentary on beavers narrated by henry fonda i have not been able to identify that show called change in the notes recordings of part of an ecology forum which took place at northwestern university here you go let me know if you d like me to delve further into this collection download 1969 1970 media variety play well that was a heavy meal how about a light dessert this little tape is pretty wonderful in its own right it comes from los angeles top 40 powerhouse khj the tape starts with a few internal promos for special programming and for a contest they were running at the time this tape is dated 10 18 75 presumably read by chuck martin whose name is on the box see below the rest of the tape contains khj production music backing music for sports reports and for news breaks and then typewriter noises presumably also for news reports the tape ends with two pams style khj stingers download khj ads jingles sports themes and news backing 10 18 75 play posted by bob purse at 2 10 pm 4 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels advertising christianity church ecology family recordings home recordings jingles johnny carson khj mor music movies news poetry politics production music radio sports television top 40 radio very short reels older posts home subscribe to posts atom search this blog about the site i ve been collecting reel to reel tapes for more than thirty years you can read a sort of manifesto about that collecting habit here i search for home recordings of people s family and friends homemade tapes of music comedy and the hard to define media recordings primarily from before 1970 advertisements and the unexpected i hope to share some of the most interesting 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