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Member	Item		Review/Comment
LaurenceD SUBS 23rd Feb 2024		Cassette Album Marty Robbins - The Song Of Robbins	Judging by the other contemporary releases listed on the insert/wrapper, this would seem to be from late 1978 or early 1979.
LaurenceD SUBS 28th Jan 2024		Cassette Album Various Artists - Somewhere In Time (1989)	I'm not 100% certain about the 1989 release date for the HiQ version. The earliest mention of any MCA HiQ cassettes that I have found is in Billboard June 7, 1986.
LaurenceD SUBS 26th Dec 2023		Cassette Album Johnny Rivers - Changes (1968)	Liberty released its first 24 cassette albums in December 1967; see: Billboard ad from Dec 2 1967 Johnny Rivers' Rewind album (C-0774) was included in that group, but this one was released some time in the first half of 1968.
LaurenceD SUBS 21st Sep 2023		Cassette Album Prof. Kraus - Bach: Toccata Und Fuge, Dorische Toccata, Fantasie	I think that the organist may be Eberhard Kraus.
LaurenceD SUBS 29th Mar 2023		Cassette Album Iggy And The Stooges - Raw Power (1973)	I added a scan from an insert with a different barcode; it has an additional "02" at the end. Otherwise everything is the same as the existing entry. Shall I create a separate one?
LaurenceD SUBS 24th Jun 2022		Cassette Album Nirvana - Nevermind (1991)	My images (3014718 - 3014724) are from a Columbia House edition (CRC).
LaurenceD SUBS 26th Apr 2022		Cassette Album The Animal Kwackers - Christmas Favorites (1994)	This has no connection to the UK TV series; instead, it sounds like an attempt to ride the coattails of the Jingle Cats release from the previous Christmas season. The main difference here is the addition of sampled barnyard animals.
LaurenceD SUBS 11th Apr 2022		Cassette Album Joni Mitchell - Chalk Mark In A Rain Storm (1988)	Images 2948433-2948437 from BMG Direct Marketing release: C160304
LaurenceD SUBS 2nd Apr 2022		Cassette Album Andy Griffith - What It Is Is Andy Griffith (Andy's Greatest Comedy Monologues & Old-Timey Songs) (1999)	Added tracks and scans for cassette two of this set
LaurenceD SUBS 12th Jun 2021		Cassette Album Mark Russell - Mark Russell Comedy Special (1986)	As stated at the end of the broadcast: Live from the Katherine Cornell Theatre, State University of New York at Buffalo Produced by WNED Buffalo An audio cassette of this program can be obtained by sending in $6 (check or money order)
LaurenceD SUBS 12th May 2021		Cassette Album Rudy Ray Moore - Eat Out More Often (1988)	The insert has a 1988 date while the tape has 1998. I'm pretty sure that 1988 is correct.
LaurenceD SUBS 17th Feb 2021		Reel-to-Reel The Ray Charles Singers - Songs For Latin Lovers	Nah, this is a different Ray Charles. As far as I know, he has no releases credited as just "Ray Charles".
LaurenceD SUBS 1st Dec 2020		Cassette Album Television - Marquee Moon (1977)	Added images from Columbia House release
LaurenceD SUBS 6th Nov 2020		Cassette Album The Rolling Stones - Hot Rocks 1964 (1986)	1980s release with some changes to the track order versus the 1970s releases.
LaurenceD SUBS 6th Aug 2020		Cassette Album Clarence White And The Kentucky Colonels - Clarence White And The Kentucky Colonels (1980)	One small problem with my copy: the tape actually plays an album by Steve Young called "Seven Bridges Road" (Rounder C-3058). Not a bad album though...
LaurenceD SUBS 14th Jul 2020		Cassette Album Bee Gees - I've Gotta Get A Message To You (1978)	The insert does not mention the fact that tracks 7, 9 & 10 are solo releases.
LaurenceD SUBS 12th Jul 2020		Cassette Album Stevie Ray Vaughan And Double Trouble - Couldn't Stand The Weather (1984)	Note that the track "Tin Pan Alley" is listed on the tape as "Roughest Place In Town"
LaurenceD SUBS 2nd Jul 2020		Cassette Album Various Artists - Baseball's Greatest Hits (1990)	I have entered the tracks as listed on the insert and tape sides, however... there seems to have been a disconnect or change of plans for the format of this tape release. The tape actually plays all 23 tracks as on the CD release shown here. Side one ends with Sam and Dave's "Knock It Out Of The Park", and side two begins with Terry Cashman's "Play-By-Play".
LaurenceD SUBS 18th Jun 2020		Cassette Album Various Artists - Newport Broadside	This would have been issued by RCOA some time after the fact, late 1960s or so. No credits for performers or composers as far as the tracks on this cassette. I'll list the performers here: Bob Dylan And Pete Seeger: 1 Tom Paxton: 2,3,4 Bob Davenport: 5 The Freedom Singers: 6,7,8 Jim Garland: 9,10 Ed McCurdy: 11 Phil Ochs: 12,13 Peter La Farge: 14 Joan Baez And Bob Dylan: 15
LaurenceD SUBS 22nd Feb 2020		Cassette Album Dick Dale - Tribal Thunder (1993)	After the end of the Tribal Thunder track on side 2, there is an additional snippet of "Misirlou".
LaurenceD SUBS 16th Jan 2020		Cassette Album Frank Zappa - Sheik Yerbouti (1991)	Track titles taken from insert back. Alt track titles from lyrics pages: - 8: We've Got To Get Into Something Real - 9: Bobby Brown - 13: Tryin' To Grow A Chin - 14: City Of Tiny Lights - 18: Yo' Mama
LaurenceD SUBS 20th Nov 2019		Cassette Album Misha Knight - I Am A Gorby Man (1990)	El Paso Times May 29, 1990: Another Washington entrepreneur, Misha Knight, will be selling summit T-shirts and a cassette on which he is the star. Knight wrote all the songs on the cassette and that he and the band recorded them after drinking three bottles of vodka. Associated Press / AP-NR-05-30-90 1614EST / AM-Summit-LafayettePark / Misha Knight, who emigrated from the Soviet Union in 1978 because he ``did not see a future there,'' said he came to this summit to show support for the growing friendship between the United States and his homeland. He also was selling Gorbachev T-shirts _ $15 each _ and an $8 cassette tape featuring himself singing ``I Am a Gorby Man,'' and ``Give Peace a Hand,'' among other tunes. El Paso Times June 1, 1990: No U.S. entrepreneur has a greater interest in the political longevity of Gorbachev than Misha Knight, the Washington manufacturer and hawker of Gorby T-shirts. Knight, who immigrated to the United States from the Soviet Union a dozen years ago and changed his name from Misha Nete, is making the rounds from Lafayette Park to the National Press Club to the summit press center at George Washington University with a suitcase of his shirts.
LaurenceD SUBS 5th Oct 2019		Cassette Album Miles Davis - Doo-Bop (1992)	Scans from Columbia House copy.
LaurenceD SUBS 1st Oct 2019		Cassette Album Elliott Adams - The Buffalo Rag (1989)	Track 14 "Bull Frog Blues" can be heard by the Six Brown Brothers on this 78.
LaurenceD SUBS 13th May 2019		Cassette Album Shlock Rock - Shlock Rock 10: Greatest Hits (1997)	Parodies and the songs they are based on: 1. "Old Time Torah Scroll": "Old Time Rock & Roll" by Bob Seger 2. "My Menorah": "La Bamba" by Ritchie Valens 3. "Abarbanel": "Barbara Ann" by The Beach Boys 4. "Rashi": "Windy" by The Association 5. (original) 6. "Under the Chupah": "Under the Boardwalk" by The Drifters 7. "Every Bite You Take": "Every Breath You Take" by The Police 8. "Achashverosh": "Rock Me Amadeus" by Falco 9. "Sweet Aroma of the Challah": "Sweet Home Alabama" by Lynyrd Skynyrd 10. "Tshuvah": "Good Lovin'" by The Rascals 11. "(It's My Lulav, it's) All Shook Up": "All Shook Up" by Elvis Presley 12. (original) 13. "Making Aliyah Today": "Born in the USA" by Bruce Springsteen 14. "All Night Long": "All Night Long" by Lionel Richie 15. "Learning Is Good": "Johnny B. Goode" by Chuck Berry 16. (original) 17. "Havdalah": "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" by The Beatles 18. The Four Questionables: - parody of Macho Man – Village People - parody of That’s Amore’ – Dean Martin - parody of I Got You – James Brown - parody of Macarena – Los Del Rio
LaurenceD SUBS 4th Apr 2018		Cassette Album The Eldorados - Crazy Little Mama (1984)	This cassette release does not specify which tracks feature The Magnificents; they are A5 and B5.
LaurenceD SUBS 5th Sep 2016		Reel-to-Reel The Kinks - Kinda Kinks (1966)	The sides are indeed reversed (as opposed to the LP) as indicated on the reel label.
LaurenceD SUBS 5th Sep 2016		Reel-to-Reel [no artist listed] - Speed And Flutter Test Tape	3000 hz. at 7.5 IPS; 4 minutes per side. Flutter less than .03% RMS. Speed better than 0.1% at 74°F and 4 ounces tension.
LaurenceD SUBS 10th Mar 2016		8-Track Curtis Mayfield - Give, Get, Take And Have (1976)	The front of the tape is blank. The cover art is printed on the slip case, which is missing from my copy.
LaurenceD SUBS 7th Mar 2016		8-Track Carl Perkins - On Top (1970)	The case of my tape is actually a tomato-red/persimmon color, but my Canon scanner has difficulties with certain hues such as that.

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