Further to the “childhood music-playing devices” thread a few months ago, at the weekend I found the exact same model of radio-cassette player I had as a kid. My bid was successful and it arrived today. Here it is!
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https://theafterword.co.uk/music-playing-devices-from-your-childhood/
minibreakfast says
I’m having the BEST time:
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Leicester Bangs says
Good one. That ‘Hits Of House Are Here’ is ace, and notable for the fact that it features Steinski’s ‘We’ll Be Right Back’, which was left off the anthology they released a few years back for copyright reasons. Eat that, Avalanches!
minibreakfast says
Ha! These all belonged to my big sis (I used to pinch a lot of her tapes). The Smash Hits sticker on S&P is my doing.
Moose the Mooche says
Nice. Radio tuned or 275 or 285 on the Medium Wave, I assume?
I want my first record player. It was a cheap piece of crap (of course), but it had t had an autochanger.
Golden Brown.
CLUNK!
Mirror Man.
CLUNK!
Showroom Dummies.
CLUNK!
Nelly the Elephant… woah! Who put that on?
minibreakfast says
Radio 1 of course, in preparation for taping the charts. Roll on Sunday teatime!
Moose the Mooche says
Good news: the charts are on FM!
Radio 2, which is the last one before the end on the left. Be careful not to tune in too early, you’ll get the end of Sing Something Simple and immediately contract chronic clinical depression.
minibreakfast says
Hurrah for Bros and their giant FM plug!
count jim moriarty says
My memory tells me that Sing Something Simple was on AFTER the chart rundown.
MC Escher says
No I think that was the Annie Nightingale show.
count jim moriarty says
That’s true from 1982 when Radio 1 got more time on FM. Before that, SSS was on after the chart rundown. You’re right as far as this thread is concerned – I was thinking earlier.
Milkybarnick says
If you hold the play button just above the point where it clicks to on, does everything go a bit faster and sound daft? Had hours of fun doing that as a kid. Mind you, not sure if it could chew your tapes up…
minibreakfast says
I won’t risk trying that until my dad’s close by with a biro.
Sniffity says
Speaking of which, got a pencil on standby to rewind or fastforward pesky tapes?
Dodger Lane says
That’s a proper player; chunky controls and buttons that stay pressed. None of that touch screen and swiping nonsense.
minibreakfast says
It really is robust. Could do with a run over with a damp cloth, mind. (Already found the tape head cleaner – priorities!)
Moose the Mooche says
So could I, missus.
Twang says
Nice. I had one of these
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You could record the two halves of the stereo tape separately, thus giving some basic overdubbing capability. Also there was a primitive drum machine and you could plug in a mic and guitar at the same time. Classic records were made with less. Sadly I killed it trying to power it from the car lighter socket.
moseleymoles says
In my very brief delusions of being a musician (can’t sing a note, no sense of rhythm etc) I had one of these to record the two bands I was in:
Twang says
Cool. I had a Yamaha MT2 4 track. Still got it actually!
Hawkfall says
I’m surprised the car did it in. By the look of it, I wouldn’t be surprised if you could power the car by connecting it to the Din plug.
Twang says
That’s what the repairer told me at the time. Something about transformers that I didn’t understand. I was gutted – I loved that box!
minibreakfast says
Did anyone watch James May reassembling a Dansette last night?
JQW says
Yes, although his was a later model to the one that ended up in my bedroom when we cleared out my grandmother’s bungalow.
minibreakfast says
I watched it last night. He had some LOVELY comments about Genesis and ELO!
GCU Grey Area says
I saw it. I really like those programmes.
Like him, I worry over the difference between a screw and a bolt.
Dave Ross says
That’s a lovely thing. Please do a live blog on Sunday evening as you try to record the Top 40 off the radio………..
minibreakfast says
http://i1350.photobucket.com/albums/p773/minibreakfast/DSCN0013_zpssdkar4y4.jpg
MC Escher says
I have quite a few cassesttes of the top 40 through the 80’s*, lovingly curated with DJ chit-chat cut out, if you want them, mini. I no longer have a means of playing them.
* back from when “Home Taping Is Killing Music”. Boy, they’d have shat themselves if they knew the internet was coming.