Early 1980s Sanyo AMSS Demonstration Tape You Cant Download Vinyl 2023-03-12 | An early 1980s cassette tape from Sanyo, designed to demonstrate their Automatic Music Search System (AMSS) with short clips of music. The other side is blank, for the user to make their own recordings (which no one ever did on this tape).#sanyo #amss #cassette
Alvin Mallette Audiodisc 78 RPM recording to Montclair State College You Cant Download Vinyl 2023-07-08 | 78 RPM Audiodisc recording of Alvin Mallette, circa late 1960s, to Montclair State College (now University). It says "Side 1" by the other side is blank. Off-camera I tried to play the end of the recording a few more times, and I put my best guess of what he said in the captions.In March 1968 he co-wrote a letter to the Montclarion, the college's newspaper, complaining about students not taking fire drills seriously:https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1076&context=montclarion
Ralph Font & His Orchestra - Tabu (CORRECT SPEED) You Cant Download Vinyl 2023-03-12 | From "Introduction to Stereo", the first stereo LP ever released by Westminster, in 1958. The other copies of this track that are online are too slow and have the left and right channels reversed. This is played at the correct speed and with the correct channel layout.
1972 Akai Demonstration Tape - ADR System You Cant Download Vinyl 2023-03-04 | An Akai demonstration cassette tape, circa 1972, featuring their ADR (Automatic Distortion Reduction) System and Dolby B Noise Reduction. Music by "the Film Studio Orchestra".Time flow:0:07 ADR demonstration3:15 Godfather5:57 Bonnie and Clyde9:31 Love Theme from "Sunflower"12:02 Shaft15:11 Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head17:25 Everybody Gets to Go to the Moon20:09 Che Vuole Questa Musika Stasera from the film "Plagio"#akai #cassette #demonstration
Do They Know Its PUNK ROCK Christmas? - unknown NJ rock band You Cant Download Vinyl 2022-12-26 | Unlabeled 7" 33⅓ RPM red vinyl record, recorded by an unknown New Jersey-area punk rock band, circa 1985. A cover of the Band Aid song "Do They Know It's Christmas?". (The other side contains mediocre covers of "Video Killed the Radio Star" and "Kids in America".) Maybe someone can identify them based on the names they mention during the outro.#punk #rock #vinyl
Slow vinyl: An hour in Stereoland at 16⅔ RPM You Cant Download Vinyl 2022-09-22 | One of the few 16⅔ RPM records containing stereo music: "Enjoy an Hour in Stereoland" by Will Kennedy and His Stereo Orchestra. Date unknown (early 1960s?), produced exclusively for Magnavox dealers (later changed to "for stereo dealers"). Played on a BSR Minichanger. On some tracks the audio quality is surprisingly good, but inner groove distortion is much worse than at 33⅓ RPM, and the musical performance of Mr. Kennedy's orchestra is rather staid.Side 1 - Musical Moods in Stereo0:06 Felicity1:58 I'll Take This Night3:56 My Heart's Gone Crazy5:47 Why Did It Happen?7:41 They're Yours9:22 Give Me the Night Life11:09 Day Dreams12:49 The Moon Was Blue14:33 What's Your Worry, Baby?16:20 Could There Be Someone New?18:08 Piano Nocturne19:58 Blue Days and Blue Nights21:49 Shadows in the Moonlight23:46 Little Flower25:46 April Is Springtime27:19 Sparkling Chandeliers29:20 Let's Try It Again31:02 Rare WineSide 2 - Dance Rhythms In Stereo33:02 I'm In a New World (Fox Trot)34:51 Just One More Kiss (Waltz)36:37 Gonna Dance 'Til the Break of Day (Swing)38:29 Rhumba Under the Stars (Rhumba)40:10 It's My Happiness (Fox Trot)41:43 I Still Remember Lilacs (Waltz)43:33 Swinging with Joy (Swing)45:18 Senorita (Samba)46:52 Gimme' a Ray of Sunshine (Fox Trot)48:37 A Little Bit of Heaven (Waltz)50:27 Purple Velvet Swing (Swing)52:16 Fascination Tango (Tango)54:08 Will You Love Me Tomorrow? (Fox Trot)56:00 Just One More Waltz (Waltz) 57:47 Night Life on Broadway (Swing)59:34 El Banana (Cha Cha Cha)1:01:20 Could I Be Lonely? (Blues)1:03:17 Royal Street (New Orleans Fantasy)#16rpm #stereo #vinyl
Oak Ridge Boys - Baby When Your Heart Breaks Down [1-minute version] You Cant Download Vinyl 2022-08-09 | Short one-minute version of the Oak Ridge Boys song "Baby When Your Heart Breaks Down" that was sent to radio stations on a promo CD in 1999.
1010 CFRB first broadcast in AM Stereo - July 30th, 1984 You Cant Download Vinyl 2022-08-09 | A recording of when 1010 CFRB in Toronto, Ontario, Canada officially began broadcasting in AM Stereo full-time, at 10:10 AM on July 30th, 1984. They previously had been testing the Magnavox AM Stereo system during overnight hours, using three prototype Sansui CX-990 multi-system AM Stereo car radios, but decided to go with the Motorola C-Quam system, which became the standard for AM Stereo broadcasting in 1988 in Canada and 1993 in the USA. This recording unfortunately was not made in stereo, and is actually from an .AU file (remember those?) that someone uploaded to the Internet many years ago. I no longer have a copy of that file, nor does it exist anymore online, but I luckily dubbed the majority of it to cassette (skipping over the commercials and most of the weather report). There is one MP3 copy of it online, but that's just an incomplete, lower-quality transfer of this cassette recording.CFRB mentioned that there were five different systems for AM Stereo, but actually only four were in use at the time (C-Quam, Kahn, Harris, and Magnavox); the fifth system, Belar, dropped out in 1982 when the FCC announced they were going to leave it up to the marketplace to decide which system would become the standard for AM Stereo broadcasting.
1600 WWRL in C-Quam AM Stereo (Sony SRF-A100) July 2000 You Cant Download Vinyl 2022-07-26 | The best-sounding AM Stereo radio station I've ever heard in person, New York City's 1600 WWRL. Recorded July 10th 2000 from a Sony SRF-A100 using an Optimus SCT-86 cassette recorder onto Sony high-bias tape. WWRL's audio bandwidth at the time exceeded the 10 kHz NRSC limit, providing FM-quality sound. Unfortunately WWRL discontinued broadcasting in stereo a few months after this was recorded, and switched to the Kahn Power-Side system, which claimed to improve a station's coverage by concentrating most of its signal onto one sideband. They discontinued using the Power-Side system in late 2012, after its creator, Leonard Kahn, passed away.
Sony CFD-S70 cassette tape Synthwave music recording You Cant Download Vinyl 2022-07-13 | Karl Casey (White Bat Audio)'s royalty-free '80s Retro Synthwave Mix "Miami Vice" recorded onto and played from Maxell UR Type I normal bias cassette tape using a new Sony CFD-S70 CD/cassette/radio boombox.Original source: youtube.com/watch?v=k8nHWwO1U2Q
1967 Norelco Stereo Music Cassette Demonstration Tape You Cant Download Vinyl 2022-05-05 | Track list:0:06 The Francis Bay Big Band - Pradomania3:18 Art Mooney & His Orchestra - Shine On Harvest Moon5:37 Roger Lecussand & His Club Lido Orchestra - Une Histoire D'Amour8:16 The Empire City Six - Battle Hymn Of The Republic10:08 The City Stompers - Won't You Come Home Bill Bailey13:05 Nick Nantos & His Fireballers - Tweet Twa Two15:14 Billy Boyd - Shuffle Boogie18:29 Members of the Benny Goodman Orchestra - Jersey Bounce21:23 André Previn - Fat Stuff24:32 The Bunker Hillbillies - Banjo Playing
Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes - The Love I Lost [Re-Recording] You Cant Download Vinyl 2022-02-22 | Uploaded by the request of a viewer of my main channel "Phony Oldies" video. A re-recording of the #7 1973 hit, featuring particularly bad instrumentation -- is that a Roland MIDI synth doing the drums? If that wasn't bad enough, this CD was afflicted by the Loudness War to the point of audible clipping distortion.
The Chipmunks - We Wish You a Merry Christmas (Stereo LP Vinyl) You Cant Download Vinyl 2021-12-18 | Less than a minute long, which is about as much of the Chipmunks as I can take. At least it's in wide stereo!
The MSR Singers - Im Just The Other Woman (original version) You Cant Download Vinyl 2021-07-30 | As featured on WFMU's "Incorrect Music". This is the original version of the song, that accidentally had audio from the opposite direction of the tape mixed together with it. The version that was re-recorded after this mistake was noticed is already on YouTube. This is a song poem that was written by Mary Clignett.
Dr. Carl Winter - You Better Wash Your Hands You Cant Download Vinyl 2021-05-26 | From the CD "Still Stayin' Alive: A Take Out Menu of Musical Hits" by Dr. Carl Winter, released in 2001, re-released in 2004. Featuring such classics as "Stomachache Tonight", "U.S.D.A" (to the tune of "YMCA"), "We Are The Microbes", and "I Sprayed It On The Grapevine".
Mean To Me - TEAC W-1200 cassette deck recording test You Cant Download Vinyl 2021-05-11 | Recorded from CD to TDK SA90 Type II high bias tape on the new TEAC W-1200 cassette deck. No noise reduction on recording or playback.
Dave Pell - Patricia (Perez Prado cover) You Cant Download Vinyl 2020-12-26 | From a dirty and scratched-up copy of the 1960 LP "Dave Pell Plays Perez Prado's Big Band Sounds" on maroon translucent vinyl.
Radio Gets Results 1997 jingle - Rare EXTENDED version! You Cant Download Vinyl 2020-11-17 | I had totally forgotten this extended one-minute version of the "Radio Gets Results" jingle had existed, until I rediscovered it on a cassette tape recording of 710 WOR from July 1997. The shorter 30-second version was very popular and is still used by some radio stations today.
Five Man Electrical Band - Signs [Wide Stereo Version with Intro] You Cant Download Vinyl 2020-11-07 | #3 Billboard hit, 1971. All extant stereo versions of this song are missing the intro and have poor channel separation. So I added the intro from the mono version and then expanded the stereo width for full separation.
100.7 WHUD - 1980s - Easy Listening music with a Touch of Class You Cant Download Vinyl 2020-04-21 | Cassette FM radio recording of 100.7 WHUD from Peekskill, NY, circa mid 1980s, with an music format mixing Easy Listening instrumentals, Adult Standards music such as Frank Sinatra, and some soft Pop/Rock music. I wish the person who recorded it wasn't so quick to cut off the DJ, as he was quite cheerful and entertaining.
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Bad Moon Rising - FULL STEREO RADIO VERSION! You Cant Download Vinyl 2020-04-01 | From the 9/24/1990 edition of New Gold On CD With Dick Bartley, a radio show issued on CD by Westwood One. This rare FULL STEREO version of the original 45 RPM single mix has double-tracked vocals and additional instrument overdubs not heard on the common nearly-mono album version. I doubt this version has ever been commercial released in digital form -- it sounds like a tape copy of a vinyl record (you can hear a little bit of surface noise at the end).
Reptar - Amanda [2015 cassette] You Cant Download Vinyl 2020-03-19 | From the 2015 album "Lurid Glow", available as digital download, CD, cassette tape, and vinyl. Played on the TASCAM CD-A580 (a.k.a. TEAC AD-850).
Incorrect Music: Anniversary/Birthday Songs (1992 Filipino mixtape) You Cant Download Vinyl 2020-02-02 | A poorly-recorded mixtape of birthday, anniversary, and wedding-themed songs, sung in English and Filipino. Side B was taped over "Selected Songs/Musics 4-92", which we can hear a little bit of at the end.
I want to know who did this version of Youre The One That I Want You Cant Download Vinyl 2020-01-26 | A bad recording of a bad cover version of "You're The One That I Want" from Grease. YouTube's Content ID thinks it's from High School Musical, which is wrong because this version of it (taken from a mid-'80s mixtape) pre-dates it by at least 20 years. All I know is that it's definitely not John and Olivia singing!
90 minutes of thoroughly mediocre electronic organ music You Cant Download Vinyl 2020-01-26 | Lots of tremolo, seemingly random expression pedal usage, and plenty of wrong notes by an unknown amateur organist, captured on a 1970s BASF Performance Series cassette tape. The only thing written on the label is "Marshalls Fla" (Florida?).
88.7 WRSU Country FM Rutgers radio aircheck May 26th, 1977 You Cant Download Vinyl 2020-01-25 | A recording of the Rutgers University radio station WRSU 88.7 FM (New Brunswick, NJ) featuring the "Country FM" music show on Thursday, May 26th, 1977. Images from WRSU's web site: http://www.wrsufm.com/shorttime/1970/1977/gallery.php
This was supposed to be a Near Mint record from Discogs You Cant Download Vinyl 2020-01-04 | I know vinyl records are visually graded, not play tested unless the seller indicates so, but this record's surface has a duller appearance than other RCA Victor LPs from the late '50s/early '60s, and sure enough it plays with constant loud crackle on both sides. Hopefully the grooves are just dirty and a good cleaning can save it.
Sanyo demo tape: Symphony No. 40 in G Minor & My Bonnie You Cant Download Vinyl 2019-10-27 | A demo tape that came with new Sanyo cassette recorders in the early 1980s. Side 1 contains two musical selections: disco-synth versions of Mozart's Symphony No. 40 and the traditional Scottish folk song "My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean" (spelled "My Bonny" on some Sanyo tapes). Side 2 is blank, so you can make your own recordings on it.
L.A. Gear - Youve Got The Moves, Weve Got The Shoes (1986 cassette) You Cant Download Vinyl 2019-10-19 | Original aerobic exercise music - Celebrity voices impersonatedSide A: Street Dancer / Sweet Satisfaction / You've Got The Moves, We've Got The ShoesSide B: Keep On Dancin' / More Is More / Workout!Copyright (C) 1986 L.A. Gear
Jim Noste - Blue Heaven Medley [Incorrect Music] You Cant Download Vinyl 2019-10-13 | This is what happens when a wealthy, elderly businessman decides to go to Nashville and record several albums of his singing, and no one tells him no. As featured on WFMU's radio program "Incorrect Music". http://musicformaniacs.blogspot.com/2010/04/mr-home-center.html
Slugbug - Macintosh Tapes (cassette) You Cant Download Vinyl 2019-07-25 | Played from Slugbug's "Truck Month" tape on a $19 Jensen SCR-68C portable cassette player. slugbug.bandcamp.com/album/truck-month
Sergio Mendes & Brasil 66 - Fool On The Hill [Haeco-CSG removed] You Cant Download Vinyl 2019-05-27 | #6 Billboard hit, 1968. As of 2018, the official release of this song has still not yet removed the Haeco-CSG processing, causing a blurred, semi-out-of-phase stereo image. Applying a 90 degree phase shift to the right channel removes the Haeco-CSG encoding and restores the correct, original stereo image and clarity.
William Fitzsimmons - Never Really Mine - Lo-Fi Quarter-Speed Cassette You Cant Download Vinyl 2019-03-23 | As broadcast on the ambient music radio show "Echoes" on 91.5 WNYE in New York City and recorded on a C. Crane VersaCorder at one-quarter of the normal cassette speed (15/32 IPS).
Slugbug - Stupid Rock / Bee Caves You Cant Download Vinyl 2019-03-23 | From Slugbug's Stupid Rock EP, released on 7" 45 RPM vinyl record in 2016: slugbug.bandcamp.com/album/stupid-rock-ep
WRFM Stereo 105 Easy Listening aircheck & Mixed Easy S*** mixtape You Cant Download Vinyl 2019-01-20 | WRFM Stereo 105 (105.1 FM New York City, now WWPR-FM "Power 105.1") aircheck:0:01 Voices Of Ananda - You're The Reason I'm Living (1969)0:45 Manuel & The Music Of The Mountains - The Windmills Of Your Mind (1970)4:21 Roland Shaw with The Mantovani Orchestra - Tomorrow (1981)7:32 WRFM Announcer8:27 Ferrante & Teicher - Bewitched, Bothered And Bewildered (1968)11:16 ? - After The Love Has Gone (1979+ vocal)-----12:29 The Skylark Strings (Lex DeAzevedo) - Theme from "Camelot" (1982)14:27 André Kostelanetz - You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To (1972)17:09 Richard Clayderman - La Vie en Rose (1979)19:48 WRFM Announcer20:38 Paul Windsor & His Orchestra - Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me (1980)24:49 Voices Of Ananda - You're The Reason I'm Living (1969)-----Mixed Easy S*** mixtape:25:01 Dan Fogelberg - Nether Lands (1977)29:59 Cat Stevens - Silent Sunlight (1972)33:02 Prelude - After The Goldrush (1974)35:07 Prelude - Rufus (1974)36:11 The Doobie Brothers - Toulouse Street (1972)39:28 Dan Fogelberg - Dancing Shoes (1977)42:55 The Moody Blues - Om (1968)
Don Ho - One Paddle, Two Paddle You Cant Download Vinyl 2018-12-13 | From the 1966 album "Tiny Bubbles". Played on the Victrola VPRO-3100 turntable.
Scott McKenzie - Whats The Difference You Cant Download Vinyl 2018-09-12 | B-Side of "San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)", which was a #4 Billboard hit in 1967.
Slugbug - Clown Head You Cant Download Vinyl 2018-07-23 | Yes, this is the entire song! From Slugbug's Stupid Rock EP released in 2016 on transparent colored vinyl: slugbug.bandcamp.com/album/stupid-rock-ep
Robert Goulet - Both Sides Now You Cant Download Vinyl 2018-07-13 | Cover version of the 1968 Judy Collins hit (written by Joni Mitchell).
Easy Listening still on the radio in 1996! - 95.9 WADB Point Pleasant, NJ You Cant Download Vinyl 2018-05-22 | One of the last holdouts of the mostly-instrumental Easy Listening / Beautiful Music format, 95.9 WADB in Point Pleasant, NJ kept it on the air until late August 1996, when the station was sold to new owners and became WRAT ("95.9 The Rat") with a mainstream rock format. This series of recordings is from sometime in early 1996.
Living Jazz - Desafinado - Banpa BP2ATC ceramic cartridge test You Cant Download Vinyl 2018-05-21 | RCA's "Living Jazz" studio group performs the tune composed by Antônio Carlos Jobim and made famous by Stan Getz and Charlie Byrd in 1962. Played on a TEAC stereo system with a Banpa BP2ATC ceramic cartridge and a Pfanstiehl 274-DS73 stylus, with a makeshift counterweight to reduce the tracking force to 3.5 grams.
Otis Redding - (Sittin On) The Dock Of The Bay You Cant Download Vinyl 2018-03-22 | #1 Billboard hit, 1968
Randy Vanwarmer - Just When I Needed You Most You Cant Download Vinyl 2018-02-23 | #4 Billboard hit, 1979
The Realistics - 1974 Todays Greatest Hits soundalike record You Cant Download Vinyl 2017-12-30 | Longer excerpts from the 1974 soundalike/cover record by "The Realistics", as featured in my video about the Zenith MC9020 turntable.
Paul Simon 1980 LaserDisc in 60fps HD You Cant Download Vinyl 2017-11-24 | The first two songs captured from the 1980 "Paul Simon: In Concert" LaserDisc, recorded October 7th, 1980 at the Tower Theater in Philadelphia. Captured from a Pioneer LaserDisc player; converted from 60i to 60p with QTGMC; video noise reduction, sharpening, color correction, and upscaling to 960x720 with Serif MoviePlus.
Living Trio - Love Theme from Romeo and Juliet You Cant Download Vinyl 2017-11-10 | From an RCA Camden album from 1969.
Soul of Spain - 1 Hour LP on 180 gram vinyl You Cant Download Vinyl 2017-10-27 | Despite containing almost 30 minutes of music per side, which is unusually long for an LP, the audio quality of this 1960s record is exceptionally good, mostly because it was pressed on very high quality 180 gram vinyl.
The Living Strings & The Living Voices - Reunited [Peaches & Herb cover] You Cant Download Vinyl 2017-10-25 | Easy listening cover of the #1 hit from 1979.
The New Vaudeville Band - A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square You Cant Download Vinyl 2017-10-19 | The New Vaudeville Band performs their version of the 1939 pop standard "A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square".
