![]() ![]() The takeaway here is that it wasn’t recorded from a radio speaker. It contained about a dozen songs, as well as some background noise, an unplanned gap of some six minutes, and some inadvertent singing along (again: single-digit grade school kid). It’s marked with the date Janu– a Saturday night during the final weeks of the Carter administration. Of course, I wouldn’t actually achieve anything like this for another few years yet, but there existed for some time in the house where I grew up an old Ampex audiocassette. In 1981, this would have been a revolutionary thing for any single-digit grade school kid. ![]() At least until the tape broke, you accidentally recorded over it, learned how magnets worked, etc. The result of this chain of events: once you fast-forwarded or rewound to just the right spot, you could hear this particular song any damn time you wanted.
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