When I was a teenager, I used to tape songs off the radio to make mix tapes. Yes, kids, it WAS the dark ages. I would sit on the floor next to the clunky old stereo, with the cassette in the deck, and the "record" and "play" buttons pushed down, and hold my finger on the "pause" button, waiting for a good song to come along in rotation. When it did, finger off "pause" and I was good to go.
Spycam on my teenage years!
hee!
I still have all the old tapes I made that way, too.
Oh I remember that, and waiting for songs to come on the radio just so you could record them - i never quite got the hang of cutting the DJ off and would often learn the DJ's voiceover just as well as the song. Or knowing a song from a certain point or up to a certain point, just because of my radio recording skills. Ah yes, I remember it well :)
Oh, gosh, that happened ALL THE TIME! I had this tape where my friend Keith accidentally recorded over 10 seconds of a song, and what he said became like part of the song.
Your story is hilarious though, plus now I know that she was singing 'powder keg'!
HeeHEE at your misheard lyrics! (My friend Julie, in high school, thought that "Suffragette City" was "Esophagus City" and we all laughed and laughed at her.) And I still have my mixed tapes too. What I don't have anymore -- showing how much older I am than you -- are the tapes I made by *holding* the cassette player next to the radio when I was 9 or 10. Ah, good times...
the tapes I made by *holding* the cassette player next to the radio when I was 9 or 10. Ah, good times...
Oooh, OOOOH, I had those! *waves hand wildly* I found one a few years ago, and bust a gut laughing when I played it; behind the scratchy, distant, actual *song*, I could hear my mother yelling for my sister downstairs. BWA!
Loved the "polar tank" story, snacky. *g* And I hope your oral surgery goes well!
Oh, I had those too! We had a little mic that we used to hold up to the speakers to tape.
Best tape story ever: my friend Amy had an older sister, Mary Ellen, who had Down's Syndrome. Mary Ellen used to like to tape TV shows with her little tape recorder, and then listen to them later. One time she played me one of the tapes. She had recorded "The Dukes of Hazzard." You could hear her singing along with the theme (only chiming in on the last words of every line so it sounded like "...boys...harm...saw...law..." and so on), the grandfather clock chiming 8, her sisters fighting in the background, another sister practicing piano, and her mother announcing, "Mary Ellen, I'm going to take a tub now."
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Spycam on my teenage years!
hee!
I still have all the old tapes I made that way, too.
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It was a sad, sad day.
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Ah yes, I remember it well :)
Oh, gosh, that happened ALL THE TIME! I had this tape where my friend Keith accidentally recorded over 10 seconds of a song, and what he said became like part of the song.
Your story is hilarious though, plus now I know that she was singing 'powder keg'!
Am glad it amused, and was informative, too! *g*
Good luck with your surgery :)
Thanks! It went pretty well.
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I have the sheet music. i can play it on the piano because it's not hard at ALL. So I knew about the whole "powder keg" issue.
Also, it's written by Jim Steinman, the guy who wrote the whole "Bat Out Of Hell" album for Meatloaf, so that explains a lot.
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It really, really, does.
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Oooh, OOOOH, I had those! *waves hand wildly* I found one a few years ago, and bust a gut laughing when I played it; behind the scratchy, distant, actual *song*, I could hear my mother yelling for my sister downstairs. BWA!
Loved the "polar tank" story, snacky. *g* And I hope your oral surgery goes well!
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Best tape story ever: my friend Amy had an older sister, Mary Ellen, who had Down's Syndrome. Mary Ellen used to like to tape TV shows with her little tape recorder, and then listen to them later. One time she played me one of the tapes. She had recorded "The Dukes of Hazzard." You could hear her singing along with the theme (only chiming in on the last words of every line so it sounded like "...boys...harm...saw...law..." and so on), the grandfather clock chiming 8, her sisters fighting in the background, another sister practicing piano, and her mother announcing, "Mary Ellen, I'm going to take a tub now."
I'm giggling right now just thinking about it.
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That's classic.
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