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/
I’m having the BEST time:
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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!
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.
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?
Radio 1 of course, in preparation for taping the charts. Roll on Sunday teatime!
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.
Hurrah for Bros and their giant FM plug!
My memory tells me that Sing Something Simple was on AFTER the chart rundown.
No I think that was the Annie Nightingale show.
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.
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…
I won’t risk trying that until my dad’s close by with a biro.
Speaking of which, got a pencil on standby to rewind or fastforward pesky tapes?
That’s a proper player; chunky controls and buttons that stay pressed. None of that touch screen and swiping nonsense.
It really is robust. Could do with a run over with a damp cloth, mind. (Already found the tape head cleaner – priorities!)
So could I, missus.
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.
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:
Cool. I had a Yamaha MT2 4 track. Still got it actually!
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.
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!
Did anyone watch James May reassembling a Dansette last night?
Yes, although his was a later model to the one that ended up in my bedroom when we cleared out my grandmother’s bungalow.
I watched it last night. He had some LOVELY comments about Genesis and ELO!
I saw it. I really like those programmes.
Like him, I worry over the difference between a screw and a bolt.
That’s a lovely thing. Please do a live blog on Sunday evening as you try to record the Top 40 off the radio………..
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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.